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American History · The Cold War at Home

Postwar America

America after the Second World War. From the descent of the Iron Curtain and the Marshall Plan through the Red Scare, the H-bomb, Brown v. Board and the dawn of the space race, to the U-2 affair on the eve of the Sixties — the events of the early Cold War years, in order.

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