Fear and Loathing in 1947

1947 was a year filled with escalating tensions in the Cold War. This resulted in:

• Great Speeches: Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Zhdanov's Two Camps
• Great Inventions: Presidential Succession Act, National Security Act (which created the CIA, DoD, Joint Chiefs, National Security Council), AK-47
• Great Beginnings: Indo-Pakistani War

It is also my dad's year of birth.

For more information, read:
The Cold War by Mike Sewell
The Timetables of History
Armchair General (May 2006): AK-47
http://www.jcs.mil/cjs_history.html
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/cwr/17603.htm
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/harrystrumantrumandoctrine.html

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