1. What effect did decolonization have on the structures and processes of the United Nations?

2. What effect did decolonization have on decision making and power within the United Nations?

3. How did the wording of the Geneva Agreements affect Soviet and American actions in the late 1950s and early 1960s?

4. Why wasn’t the United States able to defeat North Vietnam? How did the media and expanding communications affect the decision making of the parties involved in Vietnam?

5. Why did the United Nations take the lead role in decolonization? What was its goal for new countries?

6. What do you think might be the long-term effects of “Divide and rule” policies?

7. Is Pan-Africanism a reasonable goal, why or why not?

8. How did U.S. Soviet and Chinese intervention in Vietnam affect the images of these countries around the world? Why the difference?

9. What do you think was the greatest challenge to creating stable states in Africa in the 1950s though the 1970s?

10. What might be the long-term consequences for the United States in the Cold War if it consistently bases foreign policy decisions on the “Domino Theory”?