Who was Harry Truman?

1) Britain's Role Passed to the U.S.

-- Greece

ð Communism and the Key to the Mediterranean

-- Congressional Opposition

-- Dominos

-- The Truman Doctrine

ð The Marshall Plan

-- Pandora's Box

1) Globalization of Threat

2) Free Nations?

3) Siege Mentality

-- Why the Scare Tactics?

ð Continued Racism

ð Generosity?

Global Strategies & Mutual Hostilities

2) Why the Cold War?--Historians' Interpretations

-- The Soviets Were Scum

-- The Americans were Scum

-- They're Both Scum

-- Soviet Suspicions

1) Bolshevik Revolution

2) Diplomatic Recognition

3) The Spanish Revolution

4) The Second Front Issue

5) The Atomic Bomb

-- American Suspicions

1) Soviet Ideology

2) Isolationism

3) Holocaust: Not the Jewish One

4) Nazi-Soviet Pact

-- Wartime Thaw

-- Wartime Chill

ð Poland--Revisionist History

-- Truman and the Failure of Potsdam

ðAllied Actions: West Germany and Economic Aid

ð The Iron Curtain

3) The Strategy of Containment

-- Tenets

-- Truman Doctrine (1947)

-- Marshall Plan (1947)

-- NATO

-- Russian Response

ð The Warsaw Pact

ð Getting the Bomb