The Cold War and the Space Race

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• Which regions of the country supported Kennedy? Which regions supported Nixon?
• What was the effect of William F. Buckley’s magazine national review?
• Do you think the United States still participates in the "space race"?
• What evidence did Joseph McCarthy present to prove that Communists inside the United States did more to spread communism around the world than Communists abroad?
• Who was the first northern Democrat elected to the presidency since 1968?
• How did the Cold War further the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy? How did his career end?
• How did the GI Bill of Rights affect veterans and the U.S. economy?
• How did the early Cold War affect life in the US?
• Which three main candidates ran in the 1948 Presidential election?
• What was Nixon's "Southern strategy"?
• George Marshall said his plan was "Directed against hunger. poverty, desparation and chaos". So why did the USSR refuse Marshall Aid?
• Why do you think most Americans went along with Eisenhower's conservative approach to domestic policy?
• What were the circumstances of President Richard Nixon's resignation from office?
• Why did the U.S. support Saddam Hussein and lraq in the war against Iran in the 1980s?
• Who became the first and only person to become president without being elected to either the office of president or vice president?
• What did Congress raise the minimum hourly wage to during Kennedy's term?
• What was the name of the U.S. policy that aimed to slow the spread of Communism in the world?
• Who did most people expect to win the Presidential Election of 1948?
• Who was Harry Truman?
• Why didn't all Democrats support Harry Truman in 1948?
• What effect did détente have on Soviet-U.S. relations?
• How did the Truman Doctrine affect the Cold War?
• What was the Truman Doctrine? Why did some oppose this strategy?
• What is The Truman Doctrine? Please explain briefly, thanks?
• What were Lyndon B. Johnson's most significant foreign policy concerns?
• Why was Lyndon Johnson important to John F. Kennedy's victory in 1960?
• What was the conclusion of the Warren Commission?
• What theory was used by the United States government to justify intervention in many countries around the world during the Cold War?
• Why was the Warren Commission created in November 1963?
• What was the purpose of the Apollo program?
• What effect did the Soviet Union's sending a man into space in 1961 have on President Kennedy?
• When did the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba occur?
• The U.S. policy of "containment'' aimed to contain what?
• What is the nuclear arms race?
• What was General MacArthur willing to expand in an effort to bring an end to communism in Asia?
• How did brinkmanship lead to an arms race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union?
• During which event was the world closest to nuclear war during the Cold War?
• The period of time during the 1920s when there was a fear of Communism growing in the United States was known as what?
• The cold war was between the United States and what country?
• What U.S. actions led Fidel Castro to believe he was in danger of being invaded?
• Why did the Soviet Union decide to send missiles to Cuba?
• Why did many people in the United States and Europe held protests related to the Rosenbergs trial ?
• According to the domino theory, why would neighboring nations be vulnerable to the spread of communism ?
• After the U2 incident, Eisenhower believed it was necessary to employ a policy of brinkmanship against which world leader?
• In 1950, approximately how many Americans were members of the Communist party (including those who were undercover FBI agents)?
• After his reelection in 1948, who or what kept Truman from enacting any significant initiatives that were part of his Fair Deal?
• What was an effect of the Termination Policy?
• What was President Eisenhower's stated policy for deterring a Soviet nuclear strike?
• Why dd the United States and the Soviets end up on opposite sides of the Cold War?
• What was President Johnson able to do that President Kennedy had failed to do?
• What U.S. action in 1948 inflamed Arab resentment to the United States?
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• What did President Ronald Reagan believe about economic growth?
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• Why do you think President Truman believed that poverty and suffering created conditions in which communism might spread?
• Why was the Soviet development of satellite so significant to the people of the United States?
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• Why did Cuba want Soviet support?
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• What is one success of the American Foreign Policy from 1945-1980 ?
• What idea was the major justification for U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War era?
• What was the U.S. response to the Soviet Union placing missiles in Cuba?
• What event put the U.S. on the brink of nuclear war in the early 1960s?
• Why did the U.S. and Soviet Union think success at the Olympics was important?
• When the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik I satellite in 1957, what did many Americans fear?
• What Cold War institution continued into the 1990s and beyond because of close ties between the government and business?
• What were Americans afraid of during the Red Scare of the 1950s?
• What was the primary motivation behind the Non-Aligned Movement during the Cold War?
• What were Nixon's policies toward China and the Soviet Union? Why were they so surprising at the time?
• What lead to the downfall of Joseph McCarthy?
• What was the goal of the U.S. policy of containment in the years following World War II?
• Why do you think Kennedy decided to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey?
• What was the United States' goal in the space race?
• How wiykd you describe Reagan's foreign policies toward the Cold War?
• Joseph McCarthy always appeared before television cameras with loose sheets of paper, which he could wave at the camera and claim contained the names of what persons?
• How did Joseph McCarthy gained public attention?
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• What heightened American fears of communism at the beginning of the cold war?