CUNY How Does Novikov Portray American Foreign Power Case Study Questions
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Primary Source Assignment 4
Read the following Primary Sources (The Novikov Report and the Kennan Telegram):
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/novikov.htm
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/coldwar/documents/episode-1/kennan.htm
Answer the following questions and submit via the Digital Dropbox. Answers for each question should
be roughly two paragraphs long. Use some quotes from the sources to help support your answers.
1. How does Novikov portray American foreign power? What specific forms of evidence does he cite?
2. Which of Novikovs predictions about U.S. political and economic interests appear to be true today?
Which do not?
3. According to Kennan, what are the plans of the Soviet Union? How will they implement them? What
evidence does Kennan give to support his claims?
4. What kinds of language from these reports strike you as sounding ideological and why? How
important was ideology (either the Americans or the Communists) in the causes for the Cold War?
5. Which of the two reports to you sounds most convincing in terms of its argument and evidence?
Why?
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