Chapter I The Shaping of the Cold War: U.S. Foreign Policyduring the Truman Administration
1.1 Background Introduction
1.2 A Narration of Overall Foreign Policy
1.3 Major Issues and Events
1.3.1 Succession of Harry S. Truman as the 33rd American President(1945)
1.3.2 Potsdam Conference (1945)
1.3.3 The Explosion of Atomic Bombs in Japan (1945)
1.3.4 The Founding of the United Nations (1945)
1.3.5 Churchill's \Iron Curtain\ Speech (1946)
1.3.6 Truman Doctrine (March 12, 1947)
1.3.7 Marshall Speech (June 5, 1947)
1.3.8 National Security Act of 1947 (1947)
1.3.9 Korean War (1950)
1.3.10 Berlin Blockade (1948-1949)
1.3.11 NATO (1949)
1.4 Major Primary Sources: Documents
1.4.1 Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech (March 5,1946)
1.4.2 Statement by the President (August 6, 1945)
1.4.3 Truman's Address to a Joint Session of Congress (March 12,1947)
1.4.4 The Source of Soviet Conduct (July, 1947)
1.4.5 Address Given by George Marshall at Harvard University (June5, 1947)
1.4.6 NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for NationalSecurity (April 14, 1950)
1.5 Important Essays
1.5.1 Marshall Plan Commemorative Section: The Marshall PlanReconsidered:A Complex of Motives
1.5.2 Containment: 40 Years Later: Containment Then and Now
1.5.3 The Tragedy of Cold War History
1.5.4 Origins of the Cold War: New Evidence ……