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Cold War: US Domestic Policy and Actions
1.) How did the Red Scare effect American society during the cold war?
2.) What role did Senator Joseph McCarthy play in exploiting fears of communism and conducting
campaigns against alleged communists in various sectors of American society?
3.) How did the Rosenberg case, involving Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, fuel paranoia in the United States
during the Cold War period?
4.) How did the space race impact the ideological and technological rivalry between the two superpowers?
5.) What were some of the landmark achievements during the space race, and how did they effect the US
besides technologically and scientifically?
6.) How did the Vietnam War contribute to the rise of the counter-culture movement?
7.) In what ways did the counter-culture movement challenge traditional norms and values?
8.) How did the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) shape the nuclear arms race and the
strategies during the Cold War era?
9.) What were some of the key initiatives and treaties aimed at limiting nuclear proliferation and reduc
tensions between the superpowers, and how did they contribute to the eventual de-escalation of Cc
War tensions in the late 1980s and early 1990s?