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On your mask. Yes, sir. Bye. We're back in the nation's favorite tent. Let's do this. And it's

packed with a fresh batch of famous faces.

As long as it's edible, I'd be happy.

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How can it be?

The great celebrity baker for Stand Up to Cancer on Channel 4.

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This is American History TV's Lectures in History podcast.

This week, we bring back a class from 2010, U.S. foreign policy of containment between 1946 and 1950, taught by William Hitchcock of the University of Virginia.

All right, so we have a lot to cover today.

This is a very substantial lecture, so it's not the first time you've heard some of this,

and it's not the last time, so don't fret if you feel that it's going too rapidly,

but I have to cover a lot of ground.

And the topic that we're dealing with today in this lecture is the American strategy for consolidating their farm policy with respect to the Soviet Union in that critical period

1996 to 1949 or 1950. If you need a two-word sort of title, what we're dealing with is the consolidation of control

and the implementation of a policy that will increasingly be termed containment.

So the advent of the policy of containment in this critical three to four-year period is what we've got to deal with today.

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