This document is a chapter from a history textbook about the origins and early years of the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union. It discusses the wartime conferences between Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill that laid the groundwork for tensions. It also summarizes the postwar disputes over Eastern Europe, the development of the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan to contain Soviet expansion, and the start of the Korean War, which escalated Cold War hostilities.

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The Cold War
Brinkley, The Unfinished
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 Origins of the Cold War
 Sources of Soviet-American Tension
 America’s Postwar Vision

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 Origins of the Cold War
 Wartime Diplomacy
 Teheran Conference
Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill on
portico of Russian Embassy in
Teheran, during
conference--Nov. 28 - Dec. 1, 1943
(Library of Congress)
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 Origins of the Cold War
 Yalta
 United Nations Established
Crimean Conference--Prime Minister
Winston Churchill, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, and Marshal Joseph Stalin at the
palace in Yalta, where the Big Three
met/U.S. Signal Corps photo. (Library of
Congress)
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 Origins of the Cold War
 Yalta
 United Nations Established
 Disagreements over Poland
 Failure of the Yalta Accords
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 The Collapse of the Peace
 The Failure of Potsdam
 Limited American Leverage
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 The Collapse of the Peace
 The China Problem
 Chiang Kai-shek
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 The Collapse of the Peace
 The China Problem
 Chiang Kai-shek
 Japan Restored
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 The Collapse of the Peace
 The Containment Doctrine
 Truman Doctrine
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George F. Kennan
“I believe that it must be the policy of the
United States to support free peoples who
are resisting attempted subjugation by
armed minorities or by outside
pressures.”
- Harry Truman

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 The Collapse of the Peace
 The Marshall Plan
 Rebuilding Europe
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Dividing Europe
After World War II

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 The Collapse of the Peace
 Mobilization at Home
 The National Security Act of 1947
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 The Collapse of the Peace
 The Road to NATO
 Berlin Airlift
 NATO
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 The Collapse of the Peace
 Reevaluating Cold War Policy
 Flight to Taiwan
Flag of Taiwan
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 The Collapse of the Peace
 Reevaluating Cold War Policy
 Flight to Taiwan
 Containment Expanded
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 American After the War
 The Problems of Reconversion
 GI Bill
 Inflation and Labor Unrest
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 American After the War
 The Fair Deal Rejected
 Truman’s “Fair Deal”
Harry Truman (Library
of Congress)
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 American After the War
 The Fair Deal Rejected
 Truman’s “Fair Deal”
 Taft-Hartley Act
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 American After the War
 The Election of 1948
 Divided Democratic Party
 Americans for
Democratic Action
 Truman’s Stunning Victory
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The Election
of 1948

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 American After the War
 The Fair Deal Revived
 Renewed Federal Commitment to Civil Rights
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 American After the War
 The Nuclear Age
 Film Noir
 Atomic Optimism
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Surviving
Nuclear War

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 The Korean War
 The Divided Peninsula
 Syngman Rhee
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 The Korean War
 The Divided Peninsula
 Syngman Rhee
 Inchon
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Winter in Korea,
1950

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 The Korean War
 From Invasion to Stalemate
 China Intervenes
 Truman-
MacArthur
Controversy
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The Korean War, 1950-1953

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 The Korean War
 Limited Mobilization
 Rising Insecurity and Frustration
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 The Crusade Against Subversion
 HUAC and Alger Hiss
 The “Hollywood Ten”
 Alger Hiss
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The Cold War
“Mr. Hiss represents the concealed
enemy against which we are all fighting,
and I am fighting.”
- Whittaker Chambers

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 The Crusade Against Subversion
 The Federal Loyalty Program and the
Rosenberg Case
 McCarran Internal Security Act
 Growing Fear of Subversion
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How Communism Works, 1938

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 The Crusade Against Subversion
 McCarthyism
 McCarthy’s Soaring Popularity
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"I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and
five [people] that were known to the Secretary of
State as being members of the Communist Party
and who nevertheless are still working and
shaping the policy of the State Department.“
- Joseph
McCarthy

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 The Crusade Against Subversion
 The Republican Revival
 Eisenhower Elected
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 Debating the Past:
The Cold War
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