HIST 2013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Museum Of Modern Art, Mccarthyism, Mccarran Internal Security Act
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Churchill declared that an iron curtain had descended across europe, partitioning the free west from the communist east speech helped to popularize the idea of an impending long-term struggle between the us and the soviets. Defense of freedom as the leader of the free world , the us must now shoulder the responsibility of supporting freedom-loving peoples wherever communism threatened them. Free and freedom were often used by truman the truman doctrine created the language through which most americans came to understand the postwar world. Gatt the reconstruction of japan under the guidance of general douglas macarthur, the supreme commander in. Japan until 1948, that country adopted a new, democratic constitution a new democratic constitution. Japan would renounce the policy of war and maintain only a modest self-defense force (limited the country"s capacity) the adoption of tech and little spending on the military, they quickly recovered economically.