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AP U.S. History The End of World War II and Cold War America
In this lesson, our instructor Elizabeth Turro gives an introduction on the end of World War II and Cold War in America. She talks about the end of World War II, the Big Three, the outcome of Yalta, how FDR dies, Truman as President, the Manhattan project, other factors that influenced Truman, the end of the War, postwar devastation, the Cold War, the Potsdam conference and Baruch Plan. She also explains Eastern Bloc countries, the Iron Curtain, George Kennan, the containment policy, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, the containment, the foreign policy in Mid East, Berlin Airlift in 1948, the containment in Asia and Korean War from 1950 to1953. The other key points she mentioned are NATO, Warsaw Pact, Truman Era, Taft-Hartley Act, Democrats split, the domestic issues during the Truman Era, the Fair Deal and the Executive Order 9981 which ends segregation in military in July of 1948.
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