Overview
Week 5 Readings:Chapter 28
For this Discussion, answer one of the instructor-provided questions:
1. What was the "Culture of Conformity" and how did it impact American history? Show, in your response, that you are doing the readings for this week.
2. What was the Brown v Board of Education decision and why didn't it immediately change things in the Southern states?
3. What was "detente" and what was "containment" - how did these terms relate to the Cold War, and who was George Kennan? Again, don't hunt and peck for answers. Know the overall context of the Cold War.
4. What were the McCarthy hearings of 1954 and did they symbolize the end of McCarthy's reign?
5. In what ways were Truman's and Eisenhower's foreign policies similar? How did they differ? Look at domestic and international policies.