US History › Section N · World War II and the early Cold War › Topic N.6
The Cold War
Within two years of victory, the United States and the Soviet Union had turned from allies into rivals in a global contest that would last more than four decades. This topic covers how containment took shape in Europe and Korea, and how fear of communism reshaped politics at home.
In this topic
- Allies become rivals
- Containment and the Truman Doctrine
- The Marshall Plan
- The Berlin airlift and NATO
- The shocks of 1949
- The Korean War
- Worked example: Truman fires MacArthur
- Loyalty programmes and spy cases
- McCarthyism
- Worked example: how real was the threat?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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