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Question 1- Discuss three events that reflect shifts from the Grand Alliance (WW II alliance between Great Britain, U.S., and the Soviet Union) to the Cold War from 1945-1952.

Question 2-What did the term "Lost China" indicate? What is presumptuous about this term? Did the U.S. ever have China?

Question 3-The Japanese art student's clip on nuclear explosions is eye opening to say the least. Why, from the years 1945 to 1998, were there so many nuclear tests? How many nations possessed the nuclear bomb by 1998? Is the world a safer or more dangerous place with so many nations possessing nuclear weapons?

Question 4-Following 1945, the U.S. economy entered a period of unprecedented prosperity. However, a number of critics, including writers like Arthur Miller and Ralph Ellison, as well as artists like Pollock, argued the U.S. had a number of domestic issues. Identify and describe the issues that these artists projected through their literary/artistic works.

Question 5-What was McCarthyism? What are some domestic events that reflect this period of U.S. history? How do the HUAC and Alger Hiss trials represent this period of history?

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