1. How did the United States react to the Communist takeover of China and the Soviet explosion of an atomic bomb?

2. Why do you think Julius and Ethel Rosenberg received the death sentence?

3. Why do you think some people were unwilling to stand up to Joseph McCarthy and his hunt for Communists?

4. Why was the Soviet development of a satellite so significant to the people of the United States?

5. Why would it be responsible to conclude that the USSR/communism was ‘winning’ the Cold War in the late 1940s and early 1950s? Use specific information/events from history.