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S01E08: Cold War, Warm Ink: Containment, an Airlift, an Upset Election, a War at the 38th Parallel — and the Pen Everyone Gets Wrong
HIS 223: Week 6
Episode Title:
Cold War, Warm Ink: Containment, an Airlift, an Upset Election, a War at the 38th Parallel — and the Pen Everyone Gets Wrong
Episode Description:
It starts with a sick diplomat in Moscow writing an 8,000-word telegram he can't stop typing, and it ends with a pen that debunks one of the most-repeated myths in American history. In between: the Truman Doctrine, the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift's real-life Candy Bomber, the election night Dewey supposedly won, the fall of China, Korea's brutal three-year stalemate, and the fear that came home with it…
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