Document 1: US 1950s film poster
Document 2: Extract of a speech given by President Harry S.
Truman delivered on 12th March 1947 before a Joint Session of
Congress
“At
the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between
alternative ways of life. The choice is too often not a free one.
One
way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by
free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of
individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political
oppression.
The
second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon
the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and
radio, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms.
I
believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples
who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside
pressures.”
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