COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

Document Links:

Document 27-1: The Formation of the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform)

Document 27-2: National Security Council, Paper Number 68

Document 27-3: Ho Chi Minh, Declaration of Independence of the Republic of Vietnam

Document 27-4: Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

Document 27-5: “How You Can Survive Fallout”: Life Magazine Cover/Letter from President John F. Kennedy

  1. Based on the Cominform declaration and National Security Council paper, what similarities do you see between Soviet and U.S. cold war attitudes and corresponding policies?

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    Based on the Cominform declaration and National Security Council paper, what similarities do you see between Soviet and U.S. cold war attitudes and corresponding policies?
  2. What do the Life cover and President Kennedy’s letter suggest about how these attitudes and policies helped to create a climate of cold war that pervaded everyday life?

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    What do the Life cover and President Kennedy’s letter suggest about how these attitudes and policies helped to create a climate of cold war that pervaded everyday life?
  3. How would you compare the struggles of Ho Chi Minh and Simone de Beauvoir against rigid traditional power structures during the postwar era?

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    How would you compare the struggles of Ho Chi Minh and Simone de Beauvoir against rigid traditional power structures during the postwar era?
  4. How did a deep sense of anxiety permeate the period from 1945 to the 1960s? What were the sources of such anxiety, and where does it surface in the documents included here?

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    How did a deep sense of anxiety permeate the period from 1945 to the 1960s? What were the sources of such anxiety, and where does it surface in the documents included here?