Origins of the Cold War 2

"We must build a new world, a far better world -- one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected." -- President Harry S. Truman, 1945 The Cold War was the most important political issue of the early postwar period. It grew out of longstanding disagreements between the Soviet Union and the United States. In 1918 American troops participated in the Allied intervention in Russia on behalf of anti-Bolshevik forces. American diplomatic recognition of the Bolshevik …

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