1. Read: The Fair Deal and Containment - Document Overview
2. Read: The Sources of Soviet Conduct (1947), George F. Kennan
3. Read: A Critique of Containment (1947), Walter Lippmann
4. Read: The Truman Doctrine (1947)
5. Read: The Marshall Plan (1947)

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1. View: Demonstrators against Racial Discrimination at the Democratic National Convention in 1948
2. View: The Berlin Airlift
3. View: The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)
4. View: Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess on trial at Nuremberg
5. View: Cartoon: Truman Supports Civil Rights with Great Political Costs
6. View: After Church by Romare Bearden
7. View: Ralph Bunche, American diplomat and educator
8. View: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

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1. View: Occupation of Germany and Austria
2. View: Election of 1948
3. View: The Korean War, 1950
4. View: The Korean War, 1950–1953

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1.  Harry Truman Inaugural Address, 1949

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