Cold War and Red Scare | US history lecture

This is the week-10 lecture for my US History (1877-present) course. As such it covers the Cold War and Red Scare from the American perspective.
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Assigned primary-source readings:
Harry S Truman, Speech to Congress on the Truman Doctrine, 12 March 1947, http://www.americanyawp.com/reader/25...

Joseph McCarthy on Communism (1950), www.americanyawp.com/reader/25-the-cold-war/joseph-mccarthy-on-communism-1950/
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Previous lecture on WWII:    • WWII: Everything Changes | US history lecture  
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0:00 Introduction
1:22 Origins
9:01 Beginning of Red Scare
13:42 Perception vs. reality
18:20 Korean War
24:25 McCarthyism
29:31 Nuclear Escalation
39:50 Cuban Missile Crisis
44:50 The last half