Internet Exercises   Instructions: Enter your answers into the boxes below. If you'd like a print-out of your responses, click on the Submit button at the bottom of the page, and you will be taken to a printer-friendly page. If you have been instructed to submit your exercise online, enter both your and your instructor's name and e-mail address, then click the Email button at the bottom of the page. Your answers will be e-mailed immediately. Macintosh Users: If you have been instructed to submit your reponses to your instructor, you must enter your responses, then click on the Submit button at the bottom of the page to receive a printer-friendly version of your responses that you can then print and turn in to your instructor.   The Cold War First visit these two sites: Winston Churchill’s "Iron Curtain" speech, March 5, 1946 George Kennan’s "X" article in Foreign Affairs, July 1947 1. According to Kennan, what factors motivated the foreign policy of the USSR? 2. How does Churchill define the "iron curtain"? Why was this speech a pivotal event for international relations? 3. What is containment policy? What does it assume about the Soviet Union and the international system? 4. In your opinion, were Kennan’s assessments of the Soviet Union and his advocated policy of containment correct? Why or why not? Now go to: Cold War International History Project 5. What is the overall purpose of the project? What types of resources does it provide? 6. Follow "working papers" links until you get to the "Document Library." Read three documents that interest you and summarize their contents.     Student Name:* Student Email:*   Professor Name:*   Professor Email:*         *required     Back to Exercise List