Truman main goal was the containment of communism and the expansion of the soviet union in the world. this was to be made possible through countering the Warsaw pact. the containment policy was to help in the recovery of European countries economies in order to help them to overcome the attractive vestiges of communism. The countries were to adopt democracy and free market economies.
1. Creation stories are the myths and legends common to many cultures. They explain how the world, or a single nation, or even a particular human came to life. Also, lost cities, mythical creatures, and sacred objects.
2. Historical linguists trace a legend back to its roots by tracing its language to a common ancestor.
3. Common muthemes in myths and legends are a supreme being, creation, apocalypse, judgment, life after death, and good vs. evil.
4. The themes that sacred myths often have in common are the theme of right vs. wrong.
5. Some of the shared symbols of sacred mythology are color, creature, character, and/or a physical object.
A person who believed in 'popular sovereignty' would believe that each territory should decide whether it becomes a free or slaveholder state.
1 - The man in the cartoon is a personification of the mass hysteria of American citizens in fear of communism after World War II. The cartoon was published in 1949 and referred to the violation of political liberties in the name of fighting communism. I the late 1940s and early 1950s the US would have figures like Senator Joseph McCarthy and the FBI's Edgar Hoover who acted believing political liberties were less important than destroying communism.
2 - The author of the cartoon is Herb Block, a famous political cartoonist of the 20th century. In the cartoon, the personified hysteria is going to put out the flame of the statue of liberty for fear of it. The author is saying that fear and hysteria destroy important rights and liberties and thus are unhealthy feelings in politics.
