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But John Huston (1906–1987) fell afoul of the army’s rules when he made Let There Be Light (1946), a film about shell-shocked veterans. Many actors also enlisted in the armed forces. James Stewart (1908–1997) and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909–2000) joined up within weeks of Pearl Harbor. Frank Sinatra (1915–1998), who was declared unfit for military service because of a punctured eardrum, had to work hard to win back his movie fans after the war ended. Besides joining in the war effort, filmmakers began to make a new kind of movie in the 1940s.

This expansion threatened to close off many of the markets where American companies did business. After the war, President Harry S Truman decided that the spread of the Soviet Union had to be stopped. His adviser was George F. Kennan (1904–), an official at the American embassy in Moscow. Kennan’s advice led to a foreign policy that would stay in place for the next forty-five years. S. government wanted to “contain” the spread of Soviet power and influence. Truman’s containment policy was matched by aggressive talk from Moscow.

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