Cold War (1945–91) Questions and Answers
How did the Cuban Missile Crisis affect relations between the United States and the Soviet Union?
How Did WW2 Lead To The Cold War
What was the significance of the "iron curtain speech"?
What was the conflict of interests between capitalism and communism during the Cold War?
Why did USA and USSR emerge as superpowers after WW II?
Who is the "militant minority" referred to in President Truman's speech to Congress on March 12, 1947?
What did Ronald Reagan do to help bring an end to the Cold War?
Why is Japan considered a 'victory' in the Cold War?
'The US policy of containment was a failure in the years from 1950 to 1975.' How far is this statement accurate?
Why, during the Cold War, were there no direct military battles between the two superpowers? For example, during the Berlin blockade?
What were the political conditions during the Cold War?
Truman Doctrine
Why did communism appeal to Latin American and African countries during the Cold War?
Why did the Cold War spread to the Third World in the 1960s and 1970s?
What other options could President Truman have taken besides establishing the Truman Doctrine?
Why would President Truman be against sharing the secret of the atomic bomb with the world? Why would he support sharing atomic technology with Great Britain and only divulge minor details to the Soviets?
Why did communism cause such fear in the United States in the postwar period?
What was the role of Germany in the origins of the Cold War?
Who won the Cold War?
What was the main point of President Reagan's Address to Members of the British Parliament on 6/8/82?
How was the Truman Doctrine different from the traditional American policy of isolationism?
What was the significance of China becoming Communist in the Cold War?
Was the Cold War inevitable?
Why did the US and Soviet Union get involved with the Cold War?
How was the Marshall Plan relevant to the American foreign policy goal of containment?
How and why did the Cold War begin?
What are some lingering effects of the Cold War?
Discuss the most significant events in the Cold War.
What were the underlying causes of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union?
How far do you agree that the development of the US policy of containment in the late 1940s was based on a mistaken interpretation of Soviet aims and ambitions?
Explain how the term Cold War came to be used to describe Soviet/U.S. relations.
What were the most significant events that impacted the Cold War from 1951 to 1956?
What is the significance of the proxy wars?
What events led to the fall of communism?
When did the Soviet Union develop a nuclear weapon?
During the Cold War, what foreign policy options did the US have other than containment of the Soviet Union?
How was Pope John Paul II connected to the Cold War?
Why was "blacklisting" a problem in the Hollywood entertainment industry?
How far was the USSR responsible for the start of the Second Cold War?
Compare and contrast the approaches of Presidents Truman and Eisenhower in dealing with the communist threat around the world.
How did the Cold War start?
What was the "cold war" between the United States and the Soviet Union?
How successful were attempts to control the development of nuclear weapons between 1949 and 1980?
Explain the effects of the collapse of the USSR upon the foreign policy of the USA.
Why was the US keen to confront the Soviet Union after 1945?
Why did Cold War relations sink to a low point in the early 1980s?
Describe what happened during the Cold War.
In what ways did the histories of the two superpowers affect their outlooks and fears about the postwar world?
What was the cost of the Cold War to the average citizen?
Should the U.S. have done more to stop China from becoming communist in 1949? Why/why not?
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