World Economy During the Cold War

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Analysis of two U.S. Cold War documents. President Harry Truman's 1949 Inaugural Address and National Security Council Directive 68. How both documents together serve as the Post-World War II message of the U.S. regarding the strategic, economic, ideological & military struggle between the U.S. & the Soviet Union. Shaping of the post-war world.

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"President Harry S. Truman's 1949 Inaugural Address and National Security Council Directive 68, taken together, comprise the basic notions of the authors and of the nation with respect to the world economy as the Cold War began to intensify. In the aftermath of World War II, that Cold War was the dark backdrop to the messages of both authors, with the new postwar world emerging as a strategic, economic, ideological and military battleground between the superpowers of the United States and the Soviet Union.
Each of the four basic points of Truman's speech focus directly or indirectly on the perceived threat of the Soviet Union. Truman emphasizes the commitment of the U.S. to helping others recover economically from the ravages of World War II, but he ignores the fact that aside from Germany, perhaps the Soviet..."

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