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The Cold War - An Ideological War | 1

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The Great Alliance

The leaders of the grand alliance, winston churchill, franklin roosevelt and joseph stallin are sitting next to each other in wooden chairs. Almost no one in this photograph seems happy, even on the verge of victory against hitler. But within two years of that peace, the west would be locked in a conflict with the soviet union that threatened to destroy the entire world. For most of the second half of the twentieth century, the idea of the cold war affected nearly every aspect of American life. How did this all or nothing mind set affect individual americans? How did it affect even people who didn't think of themselves as political? By 19 forty seven

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