the united states and the cold war, 1945-1953

The United States and the

Cold War, 1945-1953

The Origins of the Cold War

We waited for them to come ashore. We could see their faces. They looked like ordinary people. We had imagined something different. Well, they were Americans!

-Liubova Kozinchenka, Red Army, 58th Guards Division

I guess we didn’t know what to expect from the Russians, but when you look at them and examine them you couldn’t tell whether, you know? If you put an American uniform on them, they would have been American!

-Al Arson, U.S. Army, 69th Infantry Division

“Both of the ideologies…were meant to offer hope…One of them,

however, had come to depend, for its functioning, upon the creation of

fear. The other had no need to do so. Therein lay the basic ideological

asymmetry of the Cold War.”-John Lewis Gaddis

The Two Powers

The Roots of Containment

George F. Kennan

The Truman Doctrine

The Marshall Plan

The Berlin Blockade and NATO

The Growing Communist Challenge

Mao Zedong

The Cold War Turns Hot: Korea, 1950-1953

Cold War Critics

Walter LippmannGeorge Kennan

Imperialism and Decolonization

The Cultural Cold War

Cold War Propaganda

Cold War Propaganda

Cold War Propaganda

The Anti-Communist Crusade

Alger Hiss Mickey Spillane

Loyalty vs. Disloyalty

J. Edgar Hoover: FBI

The Hollywood

Ten

McCarthy and McCarthyism

Joseph R. McCarthyEdward R. Murrow

Atmosphere of Fear

The Uses of Anti-Communism

Billy Graham

Francis Cardinal Spellman: The American Pope