What competing visions did policymakers offer on how the United States should contain the Soviet threat?
What will be an ideal response?
George Kennan believed in strong and steady resistance to any attempt to expand beyond the Western-accepted Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. George C. Marshall suggested offering massive financial aid to help European capitalistic economies and restore Europeans' faith in capitalism. After the Soviet-backed coup in Czechoslovakia and the blockade of Berlin, the Truman administration gave up hope in safeguarding democracy and prosperity in Western Europe without using the military. John Foster Dulles advocated that the United States stockpile nuclear missiles so as to threaten devastating retaliation to any Soviet aggression, in hopes the threat would prevent the aggression.
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What was a sambenito?
a) specially decorated linen tunics worn by those condemned by the Inquisition b) special red shawls worn by priests hearing the confessions of those condemned by the Inquisition Consider This: Why would a spectacle like the auto de fé require special clothing? See 1.7: Narrative: A Testament of Faith. c) conical hats worn by those condemned by the Inquisition Consider This: Why would a spectacle like the auto de fé require special clothing? See 1.7: Narrative: A Testament of Faith. d) black and white robes worn by the judges overseeing an auto de fé Consider This: Why would a spectacle like the auto de fé require special clothing? See 1.7: Narrative: A Testament of Faith.
In the North, the Civil War became increasingly unpopular among
A) ?women. B) ?state legislators. C) ?industrialists. D) ?working class laborers. E) ?free blacks.
What were Andrew Jackson's feelings about banks?
a. He disliked all banks. b. He feared they were controlled by foreign interests. c. He did not want them to control the coinage of silver d. He thought they were in league with elite southern interests. e. He only disliked excessively large, monopolistic banks.
The Embargo Act was a disaster because
a. it damaged the economy severely. b. it decreased the number of imports. c. it caused mass starvation in Great Britain d. it ceased all trade with England.