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The United States and the
Cold War, 1945-1953
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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
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“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
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The Two Powers
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The Roots of Containment
George F. Kennan
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The Truman Doctrine
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The Marshall Plan
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The Berlin Blockade and NATO
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The Growing Communist Challenge
Mao Zedong
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The Cold War Turns Hot: Korea, 1950-1953
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Cold War Critics
Walter LippmannGeorge Kennan
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Imperialism and Decolonization
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The Cultural Cold War
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Cold War Propaganda
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Cold War Propaganda
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Cold War Propaganda
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The Anti-Communist Crusade
Alger Hiss Mickey Spillane
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Loyalty vs. Disloyalty
J. Edgar Hoover: FBI
The Hollywood
Ten
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McCarthy and McCarthyism
Joseph R. McCarthyEdward R. Murrow
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Atmosphere of Fear
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The Uses of Anti-Communism
Billy Graham
Francis Cardinal Spellman: The American Pope