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Alan Brinkley,
American History 14/e
Chapter 27:
The Cold War
Highlights
Origins of the Cold War
 The Collapse of the Peace
 American Society and Politics after the War
 The Korean War
 The Crusade Against Subversion
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Origins of the Cold War
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Sources of Soviet-American Tension
– America’s Postwar Vision
– Spheres of Influence
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Wartime Diplomacy
– Dispute over Poland
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Origins of the Cold War
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Yalta
– United Nations
– Disagreements over Germany
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin
at Yalta, February 1945
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The Collapse of the Peace
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The Failure of Potsdam
– Truman’s “Get Tough” Policy
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The China Problem
– Chiang Kai-shek
– Restoring Japan
Harry Truman
(Library of Congress)
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The Collapse of the Peace
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The Containment Doctrine
– Truman Doctrine
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The Marshall Plan
– Rebuilding Europe
George F. Kennan
(Library of Congress)
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The Collapse of the Peace
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Mobilization at Home
– National Security Act of 1947
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The Road to NATO
– North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
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Reevaluating Cold War Policy
– NSC-68
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The Collapse of the Peace
Divided Europe After World War II
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American Society and Politics
after the War
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The problems of Reconversion
– GI Bill
– Postwar Labor Unrest
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The Fair Deal Rejected
– Truman’s “Fair Deal”
– Taft-Hartley Act
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American Society and Politics
after the War
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The Election of 1948
– Democratic Defections
– Truman’s Surprising
Victory
Election of 1948
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American Society and Politics
after the War
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The Fair Deal Revived
– Truman Stymied
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The Nuclear Age
– Conflicting Views of
Nuclear Power
– Promise of Cheap
Nuclear Power
Surviving nuclear war
(Federal Civil Defense Agency)
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The Korean War
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The Divided Peninsula
– Syngman Rhee
– “Liberation”
Winter in Korea, 1950
(NARA)
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The Korean War
The Korean War, 1950-1953
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The Korean War

From Invasion to
Stalemate
– Truman-MacArthur
Controversy
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Limited Mobilization
– Wartime Economic
Regulation
Douglas MacArthur
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The Crusade Against Subversion
– Sources of the Red Scare
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HUAC and Alger Hiss
– House Un-American
Activities Committee
– Alger Hiss
How Communism Works, 1938
(Rare Book Division, Library of Congress)
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The Crusade Against Subversion
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The Federal Loyalty Program and the
Rosenberg Case
– The McCarran Internal Security Act
– Anticommunist Hysteria
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McCarthyism
– McCarthyism’s Appeal
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The Crusade Against Subversion
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The Republican Revival
– Dwight Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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