{"id":23452,"date":"2023-07-08T18:03:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T18:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/homework-dont-know-much-about-history-by-kenneth-c-davis-chapter-7-commies-containment-and-cold-war-america-in-the-fifties-pgs-408-418\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T18:03:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T18:03:59","slug":"homework-dont-know-much-about-history-by-kenneth-c-davis-chapter-7-commies-containment-and-cold-war-america-in-the-fifties-pgs-408-418","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/homework-dont-know-much-about-history-by-kenneth-c-davis-chapter-7-commies-containment-and-cold-war-america-in-the-fifties-pgs-408-418\/","title":{"rendered":"Homework: Don\u2019t Know Much About History by Kenneth C Davis, Chapter 7, \u201cCommies, Containment, and Cold War: America in the Fifties\u201d – pgs 408-418"},"content":{"rendered":"

Homework:  <\/span>Don\u2019t Know Much About History <\/span><\/i><\/strong>by Kenneth C Davis, Chapter 7, \u201cCommies, Containment, and Cold War: America in the Fifties\u201d – pgs 408-418 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Read pages 408-418 of chapter 7, \u201cCommies, Containment, and Cold War\u201d from Kenneth C. Davis\u2019s <\/span><\/span>Don\u2019t Know Much About History<\/span><\/i> <\/span>and answer the following questions: <\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. How did Senator Joseph McCarthy rise in the ranks of the Republican Party and become hugely well-known in Washington D.C.? <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. What did \u201cMcCarthyism\u201d mean in 1950? <\/span><\/li>\n
  3. What does McCarthyism mean today? <\/span><\/li>\n
  4. What do you believe led to this distinction in its meaning? <\/span><\/li>\n
  5. How important were things like \u201claws of evidence\u201d and \u201cconstitutional guarantees\u201d in the era of McCarthyism? <\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Why do you believe our system was allowed to function in this way? <\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Why did it prove to be ill-advised for McCarthy to begin questioning the loyalties of army officers? <\/span><\/li>\n
  8. In what ways were his opponents able to hit him back for such criticisms of military personnel? <\/span><\/li>\n
  9. How did the Korean War represent something different from World War II in the minds of Americans (In other words why wasn\u2019t Korea perceived as the \u201cgood war\u201d that World War II was)? <\/span><\/li>\n
  10. In what ways would America\u2019s involvement in the Korean War be very similar to its later involvement in Vietnam? <\/span><\/li>\n
  11. What were some of the major distinctions between the two conflicts? <\/span><\/li>\n
  12. What was the objective of MacArthur and his fellow \u201chawks\u201d in relation to fighting Korea and, later on in the Korean War, China, as well? <\/span><\/li>\n
  13. What were some of the most surprising milestones that occurred during the Korean War, in your opinion? Why? <\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Was America\u2019s decision to fight and \u201ccontain\u201d the communist threat in Korea worth it? Why or why not? <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Homework:  Don\u2019t Know Much About History by Kenneth C Davis, Chapter 7, \u201cCommies, Containment, and Cold War: America in the Fifties\u201d – pgs 408-418  Read pages 408-418 of chapter 7, \u201cCommies, Containment, and Cold War\u201d from Kenneth C. Davis\u2019s Don\u2019t Know Much About History and answer the following questions:    How did Senator Joseph McCarthy rise in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[524],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/23452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/23452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=23452"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=23452"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=23452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}