The United States and the Cold War
a) How did the decolonization of Africa and Asia contribute to the growing rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union?
b) Describe the emergence of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and how it played into to conflicts of the Cold War in Asia and the Korean War(1950-1953)
c)Describe the domestic and foreign "Covert Actions" of the 1950s Central Intelligence Agency, and the arguments made by proponents of the so-called" domino theory."
d) Describe the Cuban Missile Crisis; how close do you think that the United States and the Soviet Union came to engaging in a nuclear war?
e) what was the significance of Sputnik?