Western Civilization II / Unit 18 WC2 1704 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Truman, Containment, the Iron Curtain, and Tito's Exception
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The idea
Churchill named the iron curtain at Fulton in March nineteen forty-six. Kennan's Long Telegram gave containment its logic, and Greece's civil war gave Truman his doctrine in forty-seven: resist communism wherever it appeared. Behind the curtain coalitions became one-party terror. Tito's Yugoslavia broke with Stalin.
In practice
Show trials of "Titoists" from forty-eight to fifty-three.
Where people slip
The Nazi comparison is the anchor's.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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