Cold War - Truman and Eisenhower

• Similarities between the Red Scare 1919 and McCarthy in the 1950's
• Similarities between the Red Scare 1919 and the cold War
• McCarthyism in the 1950's
• Sputnik- American reaction
• Eisenhower and Khrushchev
• Truman Doctrine
• Marshall Plan
• Berlin Airlift- background and aftermath
• US policy after WWII
• McArthur is fired
• "Are you now or have you ever been…?"
• Defense spending
• Reason for entering into NATO
• Korean War- Reason for US entry
• Korean War- UN entry and impact
• Korean War- expansion of containment
• Eisenhower Doctrine
• Iron Curtain
• Francis Gary Powers
• Chinese Civil War
• The Rosenbergs

Possible Essay Topics

·        Containment Policy and Examples

·        U-2 Incident and Soviet Victory

·      HUAC