Assignment
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. Discuss the origins of the Cold War and the sources of growing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union at the close of World War II.
2. Describe the basic elements of President Harry Truman's policy of containment. How did the threat of atomic warfare affect this policy?
3. Compare the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, both Democrats.
4. Describe the impact of McCarthyism on American political life. How did the anti-Communist campaigns affect the media? What were the sources of Senator Joseph McCarthy's popularity? What brought about his downfall?
5. How did the Cold War shape mid-twentieth-century American culture?
6. Discuss the role of the United States in Korea in the decade after World War II. How did the Korean war affect the 1952 presidential election?
7. Why did Dwight D. Eisenhower win the 1952 presidential election?
Text Book: Faragher, J. M. (1997). Out of many: A history of the American people. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall.