Tidewater Community College History Paper

EXAM UNIT 3 DOCUMENTS QUESTIONS

OF THE FOLLOWING USE THE LINKS PROVIDED, ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. REMEMBER THAT SOME ANSWERS WILL BE LONGER THAN OTHERS. INCLUDE THE QUESTION ITSELF, ALONG WITH YOUR ANSWER TO HELP YOU REMEMBER ALL THE PARTS OF THE QUESTION.

• What was the essence of the Truman Doctrine? What was the situation that prompted this statement? http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/trudoc.asp

• What was the purpose of NSC 68? How should we counter an apparently isolationist trend in our relations with the Soviet Union and her satellites? How should we regard a cold war? http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsc-hst/nsc-68.htm (Scroll down the “home” page to “Conclusions and Recommendations” …go there and look at the end of the Conclusions section to see how we should regard a cold war.)

• How did Margaret Chase Smith feel about the accusations of Joe McCarthy? What did she think were our basic rights then under attack? How did she feel about the role of the United States Senate in this? http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/margaretchasesmithconscience.html

• What was the Supreme Court’s decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka ? What was the reasoning the court used to reach this decision? http://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/history-brown-v-board-education-re-enactment

• Judging from the content, what group was writing the Southern Manifesto? What was their main viewpoint on the Supreme Court’s decision in Plessy v. Ferguson and later in Lum v. Rice? Why was this group writing their viewpoint at this time? https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Southern_Manifesto

• What was Eisenhower’s concern about the “…potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power” and how should we guard against this? (military/industrial complex) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY

• What were a few of the charges contemplated against Nixon? Why did he say that he was resigning? (Note that that may be different from why he actually resigned!!!) http://watergate.info/impeachment/articles-of-impeachment (Note that he was not impeached…he resigned before this happened) https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nixon-resigns (Why he said he was resigning.)

• Watch this speech…only about 4 minutes long…and answer the following: Who is speaking? Exactly where is he? Who is he addressing his remarks to? What does he want that person to do? If we seek peace, what must we (both sides) do? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWDrTXMgF8

• Charles Krauthammer, a Conservative of national renown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer Links to an external site.) explains why he left the Democratic Party in the following excerpt from his book Things that Matter…what is his explanation…especially as it relates to domestic policy?http://www.npr.org/books/titles/240268902/things-that-matter-three-decades-of-passions-pastimes-and-politics#excerpt

• What is the “treason” that Joseph McCarthy is talking about? How does he explain his position and the numbers of people that he says are involved? Who is the enemy and what are they trying to do? Below are links to articles on one of his “victims” and to McCarthy from Wikipedia.

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6456

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Acheson

Below is another site to see McCarthyism in a different light. McCarthyism and the movies. McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities were looking for Communists everywhere. The movies and Hollywood were no exception.

http://www.jacknilan.com/senatorjoe/index.html

EXAM UNIT 3 LONG ESSAY

How did the Vietnam War begin? Why and how did we become involved? How did our level of involvement change? What were the reactions of the American people at home? How did we extricate ourselves from the war? How has that experience affected the people and the government of the United States of America? Be sure to use dates to help create a timeline. List the sources you’ve used at the end of this essay.