McCauley Guidesheet – courtesy of Sam Wickstrom
Chapter 5
1) What were the factors that lead the US to a policy of Containment?
2)What was Kennan’s view of the Soviet Union?
3) What was the basis of conflict between the Soviet Union and the US over Germany?
Chapter 6
1)What was the Truman Doctrine, and what was the Marshall Plan?
Chapter 7
2) How did the Soviet Union establish control over Czechoslovakia?
3) How was Tito able to establish freedom for Yugoslavia?
4) What was the Soviet Union’s purpose for the Berlin Blockade?
Chapter 8
1. What were the three lessons the US learned from WWII?
2. Briefly describe American idealism as it relates to foreign policy?
3. What were the criteria Stalin used to assess the pronouncements of the USA?
4. Could FDR have prevented the Cold War? Don’t write an answer to this question, just see if you can come up with some ways in which his policies were different from Truman’s.
5. With what did Stalin equate security?
6. What were some of the mistakes that Mastny believes were made by Stalin and that encouraged the development of the Cold War?
7. What was the conclusion Gaddis eventually reached concerning the actions of Stalin?
8. How did Leffler view the origins of the Cold War?
9. What does Ulam say about Stalin?
10.Take a look at the last line in McCauley. Do you agree?
Additional questions from period four, courtesy of Mr. Sam Purcell
Questions - Origins of the Cold War - IB 20th Century
1. What were the factors behind the development of the American policy of containment?
2. What was George Kennan’s role in Soviet-American relations, and in the development of American policy?
3. What were the policies that led to the implementation of containment? Use the end of McCauley Chapter4
4.What policies were undertaken by the west and the west and the USSR which led to the permanent division