21H.102: The Emergence of Modern America
Study Questions for Week of Oct. 31

Readings:
Richard Nixon biography in Nash and Graves, From These Beginnings; Chapter 27 of American People

Questions:
1. Was the Cold War inevitable?

2. What was the basis for the Truman Doctrine?

3. Why did American foreign policy focus on containment?

4. What were the causes of the Korean War?

5. How did the Cold War abroad influence domestic politics?

6. What were the forces that drove anti-communism?

7. Why did Richard Nixon win in 1946?

8. What were the forces that drove McCarthyism?

9. Whom did HUAC target and why?

10. What was the general public's reaction to McCarthy?

11. Why did Nixon lose in 1960?