From Issues and Controversy in History: Includes pro/con arguments, discussion of relevant primary sources, timeline and more. From home, you'll need the password.
Even before the fighting stopped in World War II, tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union emerged. President Harry Truman formally announced this new foreign challenge in a speech to Congress in March 1947. Did the Soviet Union start the cold war?
Should the U.S. allow the Soviet Union to continue to expand, try to reverse the course of Soviet expansion, or contain Soviet communism within its existing borders?
Is Senator Joseph McCarthy's effort to root out communists from government and entertainment institutions a legitimate response to a communist threat? Or is his campaign a baseless political witch hunt?
Places students at the center of the great debates and conflicts in U.S. and world history, exploring the issues as the key players saw them, or, in some cases, as historians have interpreted them
