1945- Present USA History

1.The United States after World War II became concerned with the USSR's interest in protecting itself from capitalist encirclement (this was the Soviet perspective). When Third World national liberation movements were often led by anti-capitalist (anti-imperialist) socialist leaders, the U.S. interpreted these efforts as a worldwide communist crusade. Complicating everything was that the USSR did aid some of these movements. Describe what is meant by the "cold war consensus" and critique this analysis which dominated U.S. foreign policy for nearly fifty years. Use at least six specific examples of so-called communist led national liberation movements.

1. American society and culture went through some very dramatic changes in the post-WWII era. More than any other three decades in the history of Western Civilization, the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s witnessed a transformation of society profound on so many levels in culture, style, values, sexuality, gender roles, racial matters, and the arts (especially movies and music). What do you regard as the most consequential changes in this evolution of modern society? Provide details.
2. Write a thorough review of the Red Scare from the disturbing early developments in Germany at the end of the war through the 1950s and into the '60s. Include at least ten of the following 18 items in your discussion:
   1. Berlin Airlift
   2. Churchill Fulton speech
   3. German occupation zones
   4. George F. Kennan
   5. Truman Loyalty Oaths
   6. McCarthy Wheeling speech
   7. Berlin Wall
   8. Hungarian Revolution
   9. Sputnik
   10. MAD
   11. Rosenbergs
   12. Alger Hiss
   13. J. Edgar Hoover
   14. Mao Zedong
   15. Nikita Khrushchev
   16. Dennis v. the U.S. 1951
   17. HUAC
   18. Richard Nixon