History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1810 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Long Telegram
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The idea
On February twenty-second, nineteen forty-six, George Kennan, the American chargé d'affaires in Moscow, sent the State Department the Long Telegram.
In practice
Kennan's argument, in the anchor's summary, that Soviet leaders believed their security required destroying rival nations' influence.
Where people slip
There could be no cooperation, Kennan wrote, in the Yawp's account; the Soviet Union had to be contained.
Your place on the trail
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