Thursday, February 9, 2012

THE COLD WAR IN PERSPECTIVE

In my American Foreign Policy class we're discussing the roots of the Cold War this week. I'm making this available for my students, but thought some of you might enjoy the history lesson too.

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If we want to understand the beginning of the Cold War we need to understand, as George Kennan argued, the roots of Soviet conduct and how this affected American foreign policy after 1945 ...



This helps us understand what drove American foreign policy immediately after World War II, and led to the Containment policy, which the Marshall Plan helped make a success from 1945 to 1990 ...



- Mark  

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