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The Origins of the Cold war
1 Read the source and then answer the questions
which follow.
I believe that it must be the policy of
the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted
subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.
President Truman speaking to Congress on
12 March 1947
(a) Describe the main ideological differences between
American capitalism and Soviet communism. [5]
(b) Explain President Truman’s attitude to the Soviet
Union before 1949. [7]
(c) Was the United States largely to blame for the
start of the Cold War? Explain your answer. [8]
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