President Truman

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President Truman The Beginning of The Cold War
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What was The Cold War?
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Tough Talk The Cold War Begins
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Tough Talk The Cold War Begins

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Tough Talk The Cold War Begins

• The Soviet Union is a political force committed
  fanatically to the belief that there could be no
  permanent peace with the United States and the
  only answer was a long-term, patient but firm and
  vigilant containment of Russian expansionist
  tendencies. -State Dept. official George Kennan,
  1946

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Crisis in Europe, Winter 1946-47
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Crisis in Europe, cont.
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Truman Doctrine speech, March 12, 1947
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National Security Act of 1947
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The Marshall Plan, 1948
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Confrontation in Germany
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The Berlin Airlift
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1949 A Really Bad Year.
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1950 Even worse.