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Chapter 4

Chapter 4: The Cold War Context: Origins and First Stages

Critical Thinking Questions

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Read the correspondence at:

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/study_collections/un/large/documents/index. php?documentdate=1945-11-21&documentid=52&studycollectionid=UN&pagenumber=1

What were the primary criticisms leveled against the United Nations in these letters?

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Go to the website:

http://filmtv.eserver.org/disney-huac-testimony.txt

and read the testimony of Walt Disney before the House Un-American Affairs Committee. What was the purpose of the hearing? What was the purpose of the Un-American Affairs Committee in general? How does this hearing reflect the uneasy mood in America in the early years of the Cold War? What effect do you think the hearings may have had on public opinion? Do you think there is a link between the committee’s activities and the rise of McCarthyism in the 1950s? How does this relate to the tensions between civil liberties and national security? How does it relate to the dangers of wartime patriotism?

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