These quotes are from two leaders during the Cold War.This war is different from all earlier ones; the conqueror of a region imposes his own social system on it. Joseph StalinThe American people desire and are determined to work for a world in which all nations and peoples are free to govern themselves as they see fit, and to achieve a decent and satisfying way of life.? Harry TrumanWhat debate is illustrated by their opposing viewpoints?

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

These quotes are from two leaders during the Cold War."This war is different from all earlier ones; the conqueror of a region imposes his own social system on it.” Joseph Stalin"The American people desire and are determined to work for a world in which all nations and peoples are free to govern themselves as they see fit, and to achieve a decent and satisfying way of life.? Harry TrumanWhat debate is illustrated by their opposing viewpoints?

(A) the need for atomic weapons during a war

(B) ** democratic vs. dictatorial governments in Eastern Europe

(D) the establishment of the United Nations

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Concept note-1: -Cold War Leaders Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev and U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy are forever linked by the Cuban Missile Crisis, Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek by the Chinese Civil War, and U.S. Pres. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev by the roles they played in bringing the Cold War to an end.

Concept note-2: -“The threat of world war is no more.”-Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev on the ending of the Cold War December, 1991. “But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.”-President George H.W.

USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

THE UNITED STATES IN WORLD WAR I

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