Read and outline pages 402 – 408, 410 – 413 in the copied pages from the blue textbook.
Learn the following key terms and be sure to include them in your outline:
George Kennan Long Telegram containment Dean Acheson Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Berlin Airlift NATO Mao Zedong Douglas MacArthur limited war DMZ
SEATO loyalty review program J. Edgar Hoover House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) Hollywood Ten Alger Hiss Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Taft-Hartley Act Joseph McCarthy
3. Answer the following reading questions:
Explain the development of the United States’ containment policy under Truman.
What competing strategies did the U.S. consider in Korea and why did Truman fire MacArthur?
Describe the Red Scare of the 1950s. Do you think HUAC and McCarthy were justified in investigating people who were suspected of being communists? Why or why not?