Farewell address, 1960s liberation, or Cold War

1. If the beginning of the Cold War interests you:
Read the selection from Churchill’s “Iron Curtain speech at:
http://www.nationalcenter.org/ChurchillIronCurtain.html
and Stalin’™s Response at:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1946stalin.html
Write a unified essay of 600 to 800 words briefly answering the following questions:
What actions policies of the United States and the Soviet Union led to the Cold War?
What was Churchill’s evaluation of Soviet post-war actions in Eastern Europe and what did he recommend ought to be done?
Evaluate Stalin’s response to Churchill.
Considering the actions and attitudes of Churchill, Stalin, and Truman was the Cold War inevitable?
2. OR if the 1960’s liberation movements throughout the world interest you:
READ (or listen to):
Martin Luther King, Letter from the Birmingham Jail at:
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.lrc.cod.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=21212445&site=ehost-live
(The source above is available online through the College of Du Page Library. To access this through the library you must have a College of Du Page Library card. You may apply for a College of Du Page Library card online. You may go directly to https://lrc.cod.edu/selfreg.html. This address will give you a library card number that you can use immediately to access online library resources.)
Write a unified essay of 600 to 800 words briefly answering the following questions:
Including the Civil Rights movement in the United States, what protest and liberation movements in the western world characterized the 1960’s?
Compare and contrast American Civil Rights movement to the world-wide trend of decolonization.
In Letter from the Birmingham Jail, what is King arguing against, and what strategies does he propose?
What Western and Christian values does King express in Letter from the Birmingham Jail?
3. READ the following Farewell Address by Mikhail Gorbachev:
Gorbachev – Farewell Address

Write an essay of 600 to 800 words answering the following questions:
What political and economic problems did the Soviet Union face prior to the Gorbachev era?
What policy changes did Gorbachev implement in order to solve these problems?
How did Gorbachev explain the failure of his reforms?
Evaluate Gorbachev’s defense of his policies.