Sem2.HW5

"How real was the threat of Communist spies within the USA?"
To the USA, the threat of communist spies is very real; and the USA took it very seriously. An example could be the loyalty oaths(1947), where hundreds of government workers lost their jobs for being “potentially” disloyal.
Another example would be the Alger Hiss case(1950) and Rosenberg trail(1953). The reality of being betrayed by their own people raised the fears of the USA towards spies, also the threat of communist party became stronger.
"Is it fair to say that the anxiety caused in the US due to Nuclear threat, was useful and 'healthy?' (security of the nation . . . = its health).
It is somehow not fair to say that the anxiety caused in the US due to Nuclear threat was useful and healthy. As the Federal Civil Defense Administration(1951) had intended to train the USA citizens to evacuate under nuclear threat; however, did not work. Yet, created protesters against the organization.

Sem2.HW4

"How does the CIA's activities in Iran show that the US behaves undemocratically in its foreign policy?"

Different from behaving as a country which declare itself as the symbol of freedom; however, on July, 1953, the CIA had monitored a Tudeh Party radio broadcast. The clandestine radio warned Iranians that the American government were working to liquidate the Mossadeq government. Which does not show the image of democracy.

Another example would be-Mossadeq counterattacked by shutting down the Majlis—under the law, only the Majlis could dismiss him, not the shah—rendering the senators and deputies whose votes had been purchased by the CIA useless, the event happened in 1953, which can fully show that US behaves undemocratically toward Iran.

On August 19, the agency's hired mobs assembled in Tehran, ready for a riot. Buses and trucks filled with tribesmen from the south, their leaders all paid by the CIA, arrived in the capital. The event show that the CIA used money to control the whole riot, which is not consider to be the right action for a country declaring itself as a democratic country.

Sem2.HW3

1. The stategies that US used during the Cold war were considered to be very attempting. A good example would be the convert action. Convert action helped shape political, economic events or military operation in other contries in order to get other contries to behave as they wish; moreover, to side with the US.

2. The US had wisely controlled their strategies and tactics in the Cold War, as one of their stategies- deterrence, where US had already produced the H-bomb which is able to threaten the Soviet Union and to prevent them to attack the US. Deterrence not only kept US from harm, but also shown other countries the power of US.

Sem2.HW2

"Were the Methods the US used to Contain the spread of Communism justified?"

- One of the method that is considered not to be justified is the action of spying upon the Soviet Union. The action of sending spys to another country is against the faith between two countries. Moreover; it intensified the Cold War.

-A justified action of the US is the unification of West Germany. The action did not go against the rules shared by the Soviet and the US, and US did not try to unify lands controlled by the Soviet Union. The method could also warn the Soviet Union that the US have not yet given up.

-The appaering of North Atlantic Treaty Organization(1949) is a justified method. The Soviet Union was trying to expand it's power and had taken control of Czechoslovakia. Threatened by the Soviet, it is reasonable for US to form NATO in order to fight against the Soviet Union.

Sem2.HW1

If the US did not continue to test and improve it's nuclear capability after the WW2, which broke the balance of weaponry power of the world, Soviet Union would not feel urged to improve their atomic power, then there may be a chance to avoid the Cold War.

The Iron Curtain created more coldness between the Soviet Union and the US. If Stalin cared more about the speech about iron curtain by Churchill, and avoided potential communist takeovers which raise the unhappiness and anger of the US, the Cold War may not have happened.

If Truman Doctrine (1947) was not announced, the Soviet would not feel threaten by the US, which created more coldness between the two nations. Consequently, the Cold War might be avoided.