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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
