World history/WHME103/Reconstruction/Cold War origins

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Flag of the Soviet Union

Read the below article. As you do so, consider the following questions:

• What was the 'red scare'?

• What was the 'iron curtain'?

• How did the USSR respond to the US development of nuclear weapons and did this contribute to the Cold War?

Steven Kreis, 'The Origins of the Cold War', The History Guide: Lectures on Twentieth Century Europe, 13 April 2012.

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