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The Fair Deal and Containment Class Outline

I. Introduction

II. Demobilization Under Truman

a. Truman’s uneasy start

b. Converting to Peace

c. Controlling Inflation

III. The Cold War

a. Building the UN

b. Trying War Criminals

c. Difference with the Soviets

d. Containment

e. The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

f. Dividing Germany

g. Building Nato

IV. Civil Rights During the 1940s

a. Jackie Robinson

b. Shaping the Fair Deal

c. The Election of 1948

V. The Cold War Heats Up

a. “Losing” China and the Bomb

b. War in Korea

c. Another Red Scare

d. McCarthy’s Anti-Communist Witch Hunt


e. Assessing Cold War

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