choose one of the questions below to answer 3-5 sentences. cite any outside sources..

1. Discuss the origins of the Cold War and the sources of growing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union at the close of World War II. 2. Describe the basic elements of President Harry Truman's policy of containment. How did the threat of atomic warfare affect this policy? 3. Describe the impact of McCarthyism on American political life. How did the anti- Communist campaigns affect the media? What were the sources of Senator Joseph McCarthy's popularity? What brought about his downfall? 4. What were the key legal and political antecedents to the civil rights struggle in the 1940s and early 1950s? What organizations played the most central role? Which tactics continued to be used, and which were abandoned? 5. Analyze the civil rights movement's complex relationship with the national Democratic Party between 1948 and 1964. How was the party transformed by its association with the movement? What political gains and losses did that association entail? 6. What relationship did the African Americans who struggled for civil rights have with other American minorities? How if at all did these minorities benefit? Did they build their own versions of the movement