REVIEW & RELATE

1. Why did American policymakers believe that containing Communist expansion should be the foundation of American foreign policy?

2. What role did mutual misunderstandings and mistrust play in the emergence of the Cold War?

3. What were the causes and consequences of the militarization of the containment strategy in the late 1940s and early 1950s?

4. How did the Korean War contribute to the centralization of power in the executive branch?

5. Why did fear of Communists in positions of influence escalate in the late 1940s and early 1950s?

6. Why was McCarthyism much more powerful than Joseph McCarthy?

7. In what ways did the Eisenhower administration continue the Cold War policies of President Truman? In what ways did it depart from his predecessor?

8. How did U.S. intervention in Vietnam reflect the policy of containment?