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Chapter 29: The Cold War


Main Themes

Main Themes

1. How a legacy of mistrust between the United States and the Soviet Union combined with the events of World War II to cause the Cold War.

2. How the policy of containment led to an increasing United States involvement in crises around the world.

3. How World War II ended the Depression and ushered in an era of nervous prosperity.

4. That the turbulent postwar era climaxed in a period of hysterical anticommunism.


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