Part I -- ROOTS AND STRATEGIES OF THE COLD WAR BEFORE REAGAN
Chapter 3 - The Cold War Builds From the Hitler-Stalin Pact to the Iron Curtain 1939 to 1950
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Topics
- Three Totalitarians: The Communist Soviet Union, National Socialist Germany, Imperial Japan
- Soviet-Axis Collaboration: The Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939 and the Soviet-Japanese Pact of 1941
- U.S. “Lend-Lease” Military and Economic Aid to Western Allies and the Soviet Union Indispensable for victory and Soviet Survival
- U.S./Allied Global Warfare Against German and Japanese Central Fronts and Homelands Indispensable for Soviet Survival
- U.S./Allied Agreements with the Soviet Union during and After the Second World War—1943 to 1945
- Post-War Soviet Imperialism and the Intensification of the Soviet Cold War: Soviet Violations of Agreements, Conquests of New Captive Nations, Iron Curtain
- Early Warnings: Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech, George Kennan—1946 and 1947
- Stalin Rejects Three U.S. Peace Steps: U.S. Military Demobilization, the Baruch Plan for Atomic Control, and the Marshall Plan for Economic Recovery
- The Truman Doctrine and “Two Ways of Life,” Freedom, and Alliances Against the Totalitarians—1947 to 1950
- Looking Back and Ahead
