■ COMPARATIVE AND DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ■

1. Question

   Given his response to Churchill’s “iron curtain” speech, how might Stalin have characterized the Marshall Plan? How might Marshall have responded to Stalin’s position?

2. Question

   What connections can you make between the writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Frantz Fanon? How did the war shape the perspectives of both authors?

3. Question

   Compare Fanon’s perspective to those of the documents of Chapter 24. How does his vision of the West compare to the ones found there?

4. Question

   How did ideas about feminism and women’s rights change from the time that Mary Wollstonecraft wrote her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Document 19-6) to when de Beauvoir wrote The Second Sex? What continuities in thinking can you discern?

5. Question

   How might Churchill have used accounts like that of Solzhenitsyn to bolster his argument about division of the world?