1 gen 1984 anni - Summary

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The Cold War began as a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union over the fate of post-World War II Germany and Eastern Europe. Early on, the United States adopted a strategy of containment, meant to curtail the spread of Soviet influence. After Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party gained power in China, America’s containment policy expanded to Asia. The first effect of that expansion was the Korean War, after which containment became America’s guiding principle across the developing world — often called the Third World in that era. Cold War tensions relaxed in the late 1950s but erupted again under John F. Kennedy with the Cuban missile crisis, the building of the Berlin Wall, and major increases in American military assistance to South Vietnam. The twenty years after World War II saw a major military buildup, a massive nuclear arms race, and unprecedented entanglements across the globe.

On the domestic front, Harry S. Truman started out with high hopes for an expanded New Deal, only to be confounded by resistance from Congress and the competing demands of the Cold War. A climate of fear over internal subversion by Communists gave rise to McCarthyism and a new Red Scare. Truman’s successor, Eisenhower, brought the Republicans back into power. Although personally conservative, “Ike” did not dismantle the New Deal. When Eisenhower left office and Kennedy became president, it seemed that a “liberal consensus” reigned over a nation enjoying widespread prosperity.

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