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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: Truman Doctrine

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a copy of a speech given in 1947 that describes US intent in stopping the spread of communism. It outlines threats to communist expansion into Greece and Turkey, and the US response to such a threat. This is a great primary...
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Mount Holyoke College

International Relations: Communist Bloc Expansion in the Early Cold War

For Students 9th - 10th
This Mount Holyoke college site provides the text of Douglas J. Macdonald's "Communist Bloc Expansion in the Early Cold War: Challenging Realism, Refuting Revisionism."
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Smithsonian Institution

National Portrait Gallery: The Presidency and the Cold War: Lyndon B. Johnson

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Portrait Gallery explores presidents and the Cold War. Click on Lyndon B. Johnson to read about his actions during the Vietnam War, which Johnson saw as a block to Communist expansion. Watch a short video of Johnson's...