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Norton, Chp 28 Essay Questions
On your answer document, indicate the best response to each of the following questions or prompts.
1. Discuss the sources of international tension in the aftermath of the Second World War, and explain how the goals and
policies of the United States and the Soviet Union clashed and led to the Cold War.
2. Examine and evaluate the response of the Truman administration to major world problems and events between 1945 and
1950.
3. Discuss the similarities and differences between American and Soviet perceptions of major world events from 1945 to
1950. Were the superpowers' responses to these world events based on reality or merely on perception? Explain.
4. Explain the containment policy and its implementation by President Truman.
5. Examine the containment policy as the cornerstone of American foreign policy during the Truman and Eisenhower
administrations. What were the goals of containment as established by President Truman in the Truman Doctrine? How
successful had the United States been by 1961 in achieving those objectives?
6. Discuss the objectives of the United States in launching the Marshall Plan, and assess the extent to which those objectives
were achieved.
7. Examine the policy of the United States toward China between 1945 and 1949, and explain the reaction in the United
States to the creation of the People's Republic of China.
8. Examine the policy of the United States toward Vietnam during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.
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9. Explain the basic principles on which the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign and defense policies were based, and discuss the
consequences of those policies.
10. Examine the role of the CIA in the Third World during the Eisenhower administration.
11. Discuss the course of the nuclear arms race during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations.
12. Explain what is meant by the term Third World, and discuss the relationships between the Third World countries and the
Cold War superpowers during the 1950s.
13. Explain and evaluate the Eisenhower administration's perception of and response to nationalist movements in the Third
World. Pay particular attention to the administration's response to Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán and Gamal Abdul Nasser.
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Use the following to answer questions 14-18:
On the following map, and using the map “The Rise of the Third World: Newly Independent Nations Since 1943” in the text as a
reference:
14. Shade with a highlight pen all Third World nations that have achieved their independence since 1943.
15. How many countries cast off their colonial bonds and became independent nations between 1943 and 1994?
16. How did many of the newly independent Third World nations align themselves in the Cold War between the United
States and the Soviet Union?
17. How did United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles respond to neutralism on the part of Third World nations?
18. Why did United States Secretary of State John Foster Dulles label segregation in the United States “a major international
hazard?”
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