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=**Chapter 29: The Cold War**=

**Main Ideas:**
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 * 1) The origins of the Cold War in the mistrust between the United States and the Soviet Union amid the events of World War II.
 * 2) The consequences of the Marshall Plan and the logic of containment in increasing United States involvement in crises around the world.
 * 3) The nervous ambivalence that characterized postwar American culture in the Nuclear Age.
 * 4) The origins and character of the Korean War
 * 5) The hysterical anticommunism that flourished in the first decade of the turbulent postwar era.

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