Perspectives that I must know

Question 1

Walter Lippman

Answer 1

Truman Doctrine was an ‘ideological crusade’

Question 2

David Horrowitz

Answer 2

The main reason for the demise of McCarthyism was its exaggerations of the fears of communism.

Question 3

Bruce Cummings

Answer 3

Korea had a dependence on the United States to fight its battles

Question 4

John Lewis Gaddis

Answer 4

The reason for the intervention was to protect against the threat of communism to the post-war collective security

Question 5

James Patterson

Answer 5

Preventing communism after all was the guiding star of America’s policy

Question 6

Stephen Ambrose

Answer 6

Nixon’s visit was all about theatre

Question 7

Walter LaFaber

Answer 7

Americans all too easily confuse nationalism with communism

Question 8

Michael Maclear

Answer 8

Ho Chi Minh was first and foremost a Vietnamese nationalist

Question 9

Mark Brynes

Answer 9

It was the mindset of the Truman administration that eventually led to the war

Question 10

Walter LaFaber (about Latin America)

Answer 10

At the end of Carter’s presidency his Latin American policy lay in fragments

Question 11

Tulio Donghi

Answer 11

A considerable amount of Latin Americans owe their lives to Carter