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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: George F. Kennan

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS profiles the life of American diplomat George F. Kennan, whose ideas about the expansionist ambitions of the Soviet Union shaped the U.S. policy toward Communist countries known as containment.
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PBS

Pbs News Hour: Essays and Dialogues: George Kennan

For Students 9th - 10th
Transcript of a NewsHour interview with George F. Kennan (1904-2005), the man credited with articulating the policy of containment that shaped U.S. foreign policy toward communism at the start of the cold war.
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US Department of State

U.s. Department of State: Office of the Historian: Kennan and Containment: 1947

For Students 9th - 10th
Documentary record of the U.S. policy of containment as articulated by the official historian of the U.S. Department of State.