1. What major ideological conflicts, security interests, and events brought about the Cold War?
2. President Truman referred to the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan as “two halves of the same walnut.” Explain the similarities and differences between these two aspects of containment?
3. How did the tendency of both the United States and the Soviet Union to see all international events through the lens of the Cold War lessen each country’s ability to understand what was happening in other countries around the world?
4. Why did the United States not support movements for colonial independence around the world?
5. How did the government attempt to shape public opinion during the Cold War?
6. Explain the differences between the United States’ and the Soviet Union’s application of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
7. How did the anticommunist crusade affect organized labor in the postwar period?
8. What accounts for the Republican resurgence in these years?
9. What were the major components of Truman’s Fair Deal? Which ones were implemented and which ones not?
<span>10. How did the Cold War affect civil liberties in the United States?</span>
