Cold war

This week we began exploring the origins, onset and ramifications of the Cold War in both an international and domestic American context. Although they might have emerged as powerful postwar allies, the US and USSR relatively quickly became antagonistic to one another in light of their divergent political, economic and ideological differences. For this weeks writing assignment you are to read the relevant pages from the Hunt textbook as indicated on the syllabus (pp. 29-60); following this, you are to read the following 2 primary sources :

George F. Kennan, Long Telegram

Nikolai Novikov, Report to Foreign Minister’

no using AI (but may use ai to summarize/extract key ideas from readings)