Problem
A. Consider the outcome of World War II. Why did the United States and the Soviet Union emerge from the war as the world's two strongest nations? Why did these two countries engage in a long cold war when they were allies during World War II?
B. Describe the American cold war policy of containment. How did the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan define both a commitment to a free and democratic Western Europe and a policy of containment?
C. Describe the various policies and methods used by the government designed to expose suspected communists in the United States? Were they successful in exposing foreign espionage? Why were they viewed as controversial by the American public?
D. Describe the variety of strategies, including legal challenges, direct action, and nonviolent protest tactics used in the 1950s and 1960s used to combated racial discrimination. Provide an example for each.
E. Why, despite the passage of civil rights legislation in 1964 and voting rights legislation in 1965, did political and social unrest continue after 1965?