Category Archives: Cold War

Origins of the Cold War

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Matthew Pinsker

  Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech at Fulton, Missouri in March 1946 surely “evoked divergent reactions in America,” as H.W. Brands claims in American Dreams (p. 32), but there can be little doubt that it struck a particular chord among key policymakers … Continue reading →

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Reassessing the Red Scare

Posted on November 14, 2010 by Matthew Pinsker

Was Senator Joseph McCarthy a lying, demagogue bent on destroying American civil liberties?  Or was McCarthy instead a determined foe of dangerous Communist spies during the early 1950s?  H.W. Brands calls McCarthy a “virtuoso of the political attack” who “tapped … Continue reading →

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