Printable American History Readings with Questions
 
 
Postwar America
 
 
 
1. Consensus and Change
 
2. Cold War Aims
 
3. Harry Truman's Leadership
 
4. Origins of the Cold War
 
5. Containment
 
6. The Cold War in Asia and the Middle East
 
7. Eisenhower and the Cold War
 
8. The Cold War at Home
 
9. The Postwar Economy: 1945-1960
 
10. The Fair Deal
 
11. Eisenhower's Approach
 
12. The Culture of the 1950s
 
13. Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
 
14. Desegregation
 
 
 
 
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Text courtesy of the U.S. State Department,
Bureau of International Information Programs, 2005