History 102 Discussion Questions
January 15, 2020
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- As a student of history, what do you think is the most important thing that you need to learn? Why?
- “The Truman Doctrine is arguably the most important document in understanding the Cold War generally and American foreign policy generally in the decades following World War Two.” Why do you think this is so? What is it that is so important?
- Based on the readings of Truman(2), and Marshall, what is the image of A) the United States and B) the Soviet Union which is presented?
- What does the testimony of Hoover, the articles by Allen and Fine, and the speech by McCarthy tell us about the early Cold War years in America? What type of society was created? What surprised you the most, and why?
- What was the Domino Theory and what was its relationship to the U.S.?
- What does Acheson’s speech tell us about American perspectives and foreign policy during the Cold War?
- Why were communists fired from teaching? How were such actions justified? Didn’t such actions contravene American freedoms and civil rights?