"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia, all these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere... "The Sinews of Peace" by Winston Churchill
From John D. Clare a brief introduction to the Causes/Origins of the Cold War
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This Lesson will take you through the partition of Europe in the aftermath of World War II as well as the origins of the Cold War.
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This reading from "The History Guide" will take you through the background causes of the Cold War, taking you all the way back to the end of World War I
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This wonderful exchange constitutes two letters to the editors around question of who was responsible for the beginning of the Cold War.
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This web based activity asks you to explore and analyze primary source documents concerning these two Conferences between the major allied leaders.
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This activity seeks to determine the extent that Truman's Doctrine and the Marshall plan lead to the climate that began the Cold War.
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The Truman Doctrine and the accompanying Marshall Plan were the most significant changes to US foreign policy since the Monroe Doctrine in 1815.
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