Episode 29 of 100 · 5-Minute Videos
Harry Truman: Containing Communism
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About This Video
Harry Truman led America to victory in World War II, but a new challenge was looming: the spread of communism across the globe. Would America’s 33rd president retreat into isolation, or fight the new threat head-on? Elizabeth Spalding, senior fellow at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, describes his decision and what it cost him.
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Standards Met in Ohio
- 9-12.AH.23Grades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thThe United States followed a policy of containment during the Cold War in response to the spread of communism.
- AMH.9-12.23Grades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thThe United States followed a policy of containment during the Cold War in response to the spread of communism.
- AMH.9-12.23.aGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thDescribe how the United States tried to contain communism during the Cold War
- AMH.9-12.23.cGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thIdentify a communist country and a democratic country from the Cold War era.
- AMH.9-12.24.aGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thExplain reasons for Cold War fears.
- AMH.9-12.24.bGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thExplain what the term cold in Cold War means.
- AMH.9-12.24.cGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thIdentify people who were influential during the Cold War.
- AMH.9-12.25.aGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thExplain how Korea and/or Vietnam exemplified the policy of containment during the Cold War.
- AMH.9-12.25.bGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thExplain what “cold war” means.
- AMH.9-12.30.aGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thDescribe a post–Cold War technological development and its impact.
- MWH.9-12.14cGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thIdentify one consequence of World War I.
- MWH.9-12.15cGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thIdentify an example of oppression during World War II.
- MWH.9-12.17bGrades 9th, 10th, 11th, 12thDescribe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union in the decades following World War II (e.g., the Cold War)