Write the following questions on your own piece of paper:

1. List three specific details you see in the cartoona. b. c.

2. What event does this cartoon represent? 3. In what year(s) did this occur?4. Give this cartoon a title:

___________________________________5. What American politician might be most closely

associated with the cartoon?

Answer these questions for each of the next two cartoons.

Political Cartoon #1 Political Cartoon #2

6. What do the two cartoons have in common?

7. The two cartoons represent feelings in America

following which two events?

Now answer the following questions Now answer the following questions about cartoons #1 and #2about cartoons #1 and #2

Use the political cartoon/map below to answer questions 8 - 10.Use the political cartoon/map below to answer questions 8 - 10.

8. What era does the above cartoon represent?

9. Who is the man in the picture?

10. What term collectively describes the countries in which the man is

planting flags?

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11. What is the difference between the Marshall Plan and the Marshal Stalin Plan?

12. On the Russian side of the fence, what are the two men

with the “tool” doing?

13. Where else might you find the “tool” that the Russian is pulling?

14. Who is the man on his knees with the cigar in his mouth?

15. What is he looking under?

16. Who is “Joe”?

17. To what situation does the political cartoon refer? Who is flying the plane?

18. To what Cold War conflict does the cartoon refer?

19. Why was MacArthur fired?

20. What does this cartoon suggest about MacArthur’s firing?

21. What is the object flying over the plane? How do you know?

22. How would you describe the attitude of the man in the plane?

23. The plane is labeled “USA Complacency”. Define complacency and explain what the cartoonist is trying to imply.

24. What alliance did the dark blue countries form?

25. What coalition did the dark pink countries create?

Use the political cartoon Use the political cartoon

to answer the followingto answer the following

questions:questions:

26. What two countries are represented in the cartoon?

27. What Cold War conflict does the cartoon represent?

28. Who is saying the caption and why does it hurt him more than the other person?

“Aftermath”

29. Though this cartoon came out in 1952 during the Korean War, the issue relating to the soldier on the stretcher was “corrected” as a result of what conflict?

30. How was the issue presented here “fixed”?

31. Published in 1973, the cartoon appeared during who’s presidency?

32. What presidential policy does this cartoon reflect?

Use the cartoon below to answer the following questions.Use the cartoon below to answer the following questions.

33. What decade does this political cartoon represent?

34. Who are the two key figures?

Use the two cartoons below to answer questions 35 and 36.

35. How are these two political cartoons similar?

36. What distinction can you make between the Vietnam War and the current “War on Terror” in Afghanistan.

37. Who are the people in the clouds? Who is leading the funeral procession?

38. These two cartoons most likely came out after what event?