Chapter I The Shaping of the Cold War: U.S. Foreign Policy
during the Truman Administration
1.1 Background Introduction
1.2 A Narration of Overall Foreign Policy
1.3 Major Issues and Events
1.3.1 Succession of Harry S. Truman as the 33rd American President
1945
1.3.2 Potsdam Conference 1945
1.3.3 The Explosion of Atomic Bombs in Japan 1945
1.3.4 The Founding of the United Nations 1945
1.3.5 Churchill''s "Iron Curtain" Speech 1946
1.3.6 Truman Doctrine March 12, 1947
1.3.7 Marshall Speech June 5, 1947
1.3.8 National Security Act of 1947 1947
1.3.9 Korean War 1950
1.3.10 Berlin Blockade 1948-1949
1.3.11 NATO 1949
1.4 Major Primary Sources: Documents
1.4.1 Winston Churchill''s Iron Curtain Speech March 5,
1946
1.4.2 Statement by the President August 6, 1945
1.4.3 Truman''s Address to a Joint Session of Congress March 12,
1947
1.4.4 The Source of Soviet Conduct July, 1947
1.4.5 Address Given by George Marshall at Harvard University June
5, 1947
1.4.6 NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for National
Security April 14, 1950
1.5 Important Essays
1.5.1 Marshall Plan Commemorative Section: The Marshall Plan
Reconsidered:A Complex of Motives
1.5.2 Containment: 40 Years Later: Containment Then and Now
1.5.3 The Tragedy of Cold War History
1.5.4 Origins of the Cold War: New Evidence
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