when on critical paragraph for each critical thinking question Take the position of another country (China, USSR, Korea, UK, France, etc.) and look at US world policy from the loutside by getting into the mind-set of this country.
What if you were the prime minister of the UK during the Suez Canal crisis, for example? Or Nasser of Egypt? Or Chou en-lai of China after the U.S. had backed Chiang-kai-shek in the Chinese Civil War. These are just examples. Be Khruschev, be Mao, be Castro, be somebody else.
After reading the two articles assigned from ANNUAL EDITIONS, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY 2013-14, take an idea from one of them and run with it. Apply it to the period we are studying “Bi-Polar super-power confrontation fueled by conflicting ideologies. Don’t just cough up summaries from the articles. You know better than that. Use a quote or idea and wrap it around some real historical scenario or event(s)
