Assignment #4 Containment: Truman’s Response to Soviet Expansion

Cartoon #1: Great Expectations

1. 
   Identify the Country and Leader represented by the undertaker.
   

2. 
   Why would the cartoonist represent postwar England as a sick man?
   

3. 
   Traditionally, England had policed the Mediterranean in order to protect its access to India and the Suez Canal. In what Mediterranean countries did the USSR make early postwar advanced to take advantage of England’s incapacity to defend the Mediterranean Balance of Power?
   

4. 
   What do you think this cartoon is saying? (Quick summary)
   

5. Through what 1947 policy did the United States act to spoil Russia’s “Great Expectations” in this area?

1. 
   In what way would the continuation of chaos in Western Europe be beneficial to Communism?
   

2. 
   What country might take advantage of the weakness of Western Europe in 1947?
   

3. 
   What country does the cartoonist see as the savior of Western Europe?
   

4. 
   What is this cartoon saying? (Quick summary)
   

5. 
   Through what 1947 policy did the U.S. hasten to send economic aid to a Europe devastated by war?
   

1. 
   Name some of the countries represented under the Atlantic Pact.
   

2. 
   What country and leader are portrayed in the role of Cupid?
   

3. 
   What historic agreement is being represented here as a marriage?
   

4. 
   What is this cartoon saying? (Quick summary)
   

5. 
   In what sense could the Atlantic Pact be referred to as a “shotgun wedding?”
   

1. 
   Why was the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union after WWII often referred to as “the cold war?”
   

2. 
   According to the cartoonist, what was America’s most effective weapon in the Cold War>
   

3. 
   In your opinion, did American involvement in postwar Western Europe result in “heating up the cold war” or serve as a measured alternative to World War III? Explain your answer.
   

4. 
   How did containment permanently change the peacetime foreign policy?