Patterns, Perspectives and Pack Mentalities

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Early Cold War

Patterns, Perspectives and Pack Mentalities

Choose one event, action, or policy (domestic or international) and explain how this event would be interpreted from the Soviet perspective:

Answer the following questions:

• What is the Long Telegram?

– What does Kennan say about the Soviet Union perspective?

– How does he recommend the US respond to Soviet actions?

• Truman Doctrine?

– Greece/Turkey?

– How did Kennan feel about Truman Doctrine?

• What is the Marshall Plan?

• What caused the Berlin Airlift? What was the result?

• What complications will the creation of Israel create in the Middle East? How will this impact the US?

• Why did the NY Times say that the late 1940s was a “particularly good time to campaign against the evils of bigotry, prejudice, and race hatred”?

• How did Truman use Executive Power to make civil rights moves?

• What do we know about Harry Truman? How do Tindall and Shi Characterize him? What adjectives/examples do they use?

• How and why did Jackie Robinson US culture?

• Whose votes did Truman need in ‘48? How did he get them?

• What was in Truman’s Fair Deal plan?

• What was the difference between Republican and Democratic candidates and campaigns in ‘48? Policies? Election style?

• Who is Hubert Humphrey? What did he say?

• Who is Lyndon Johnson? What is his nickname? Why did he get this nickname? (you will have to look this up)

• Who were the Dixiecrats?

• How did the Dixiecrat rebellion backfire?

• Why did Truman’s Fair Deal plans not make progress in Congress?

• Why did the Nationalists lose China?

• Why did the Communists win China?

• What was the US reaction to “losing China”?

– Domestic politics

– International politics and alliances

– How did this impact US approach to Vietnam?

• How did the US respond to the Soviet Bomb?

– Hydrogen ______

– What is NSC-68? What did it recommend?

– Why was NSC-68 such a

• What convinced N. Korea to attack S. Korea?

• Truman: 2 decisions about Korea:

• USSR UN Boycott: (Why? Impact?)

• Who is UN/US commander in Korea?

• What happens at Inchon?

• China response?

• Macarthur response to China?

• Truman response to Macarthur’s plans?

• General Bradley’s argument about war with China:

• What is HUAC?

• Who is Alger Hiss?

• Who is Whitaker Chambers?

• How does Richard Nixon rise to prominence?

• Who is Joe McCarthy? How does he rise to prominence? Who does he attack?

• What do you think George Washington (and Alexander Hamilton, who helped him write his Farewell Address) would think of US policies post-WWII?