Truman And The Cold War
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Uses newsreel footage and film clips to highlight President Truman's role in shaping Western Europe's recovery from wartime destruction. Truman discusses the cold-war rivalry which pitted America against the Soviet Union, and tells how he countered with the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine. Shows the confrontation over Berlin, where a free world airlift overcame a Soviet blockade, and explains how, through Truman's persistence, NATO was formed to prevent further Soviet expansion.
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