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Pre-Course

Questionnaire

Questionnaire: Cold War History
Sept 5, 2008
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  1. The economic differences between the US and USSR were a significant causal factor for the Cold War.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1. The social and cultural differences between the US and USSR were a significant causal effect of the Cold War.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1. The USSR and US sharply disagreed on why the Cold War began.  Each nation’s perception reflected the cultural and political reality of that nation.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1. Each nation had widely differing leaders with sharply honed personalities during the decades of the Cold War.  The role of personality was a major factor in explaining the evolution of the Cold War.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1. The arms/technology race was a major element of the Cold War. The military leadership of each nation played a commanding role in the arms/technology decisions across those five decades.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1. Were the salient factors that drove Khrushchev to place nuclear missiles in Cuba substantially different from those factors that drove Kennedy to demand the missiles removal.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1. Both the USSR and the US produced many films that depicted the Cold War.  They are a powerful representation of the issues of that day.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1.  Ideology played a large role in the US policy formulation during the Cold War as it also did in the Soviet Union.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1. Comedy, especially satirical comedy, was a profound coping strategy for citizens of both the US and USSR during the tense years of the Cold War.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1. The arms/technology race had a greater destructive impact upon the Soviet economy than on the US economy.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1. Fear of nuclear exchanges drove both nations to seek reductions in the numbers of strategic weapons.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1. The end of the Cold War was, in part, caused by the growing knowledge each nation’s people acquired as education and travel increased about and between the two nations.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1. The end of the Cold War was, in part, caused by the policy actions initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1. The end of the Cold War was, in part, caused by the policy actions initiated by Ronald Reagan.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1. The Cold War worked as a positive accelerator to technological innovation.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree

  1. The Cold War propelled the development of alternative political powers in less developed sectors of the globe.

1 strongly agree               2 agree                     3 neither agree nor disagree     4 disagree                5 strongly disagree