QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION (WEEK 11 AND WEEK 12)

What major development occurred in Cuba in 1959? How did this affect U.S.-Cuban relations? How did the development become a part of the broader Cold War? What policy options did the United States pursue towards Cuba in the years that followed? How might these have contributed to the Cuban Missile Crisis?

What was/is nation building? In what ways was the idea manifested in American foreign policy during the Cold War?

What was détente? In what ways did U.S. relations with China evolve in the 1970s? How did this evolution affect U.S. relations with the Soviet Union?

What was Vietnamization? Why was it undertaken?

How did the nuclear arms race intensify during the 1960s and 1970s? What efforts were undertaken to check it?

What covert actions did the United States pursue in Chile in the early 1970s? Why?