The Making of the Cold War

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This paper discusses how the development of the Cold War era was part of larger trends in international relations. It reviews how an examination of primary texts from the era demonstrates, popular and political conception of the threat posed by the Soviet Union in the United States was significant. This fear of the so-called Red Menace was enough to propel a distrust of the Soviets at the end of World War II into a greater conflict of nuclear brinkmanship. The era of the Cold War in the United States was first articulated with the Truman Doctrine in 1947; however, subsequent events such as the Korean War and the launch of Sputnik I enhanced the perceived risk and cemented the U.S.'s resolve.

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