The Post-War World

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• The International Origins of the Cold War
• Global Depression, Collapse of Capitalism
• Liberalism its Discontents
• The Keynesian Solution

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The U.S. Response to Depression

• The New Deal Saving the System
• American Capitalism the Coup of 1934
• John Maynard Keynes
• World War II

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War, Depression, a New Post-War Order?

• The Bretton Woods Conference
• IMF
• World Bank
• The Liberal Consensus?
• The Bankers Labor

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Diplomacy of the Early Cold War

• The Yalta Conference, February, 1945
• Eastern Europe Russian security
• Poland the London Poles vs. the Lublin Poles
• The United Nations
• General Assembly Security Council
• The US China

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Postwar Europe a buffer zone
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Post-War Europe
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Atomic Diplomacy a Cold War

• The A-bomb history
• The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb
• The Rise of American Hegemony?
• Stalin, Russia, a buffer zone

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The Politics of Cold War

• Truman, the Democrats, Anti-Communism
• Henry A. Wallace,
• the Century of the Common Man
• Or the century of fear
• The Cold War
• The American Century

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The Early Cold War

• An Iron Curtain (The Sinews of Peace)
• The Long Telegram (George F. Kennan)
• Truman Doctrine
• The Marshall Plan
• NSC-68