World History Cold War Quest Review Guide
Requirement: Complete questions #1-#20 on a separate sheet of paper- due on day of quest 
What to use: Your notes, classwork, and homework. If need be: access slides on my website. Also, Chapter 17 in the
textbook. Below, a list of keyterms is provided to help guide your studying. I am collecting your question responses!
Cold War Beginnings:
Questions:
Yalta Conference & Potsdam Conference
1. Explain why tensions rose after the conferences at
United Nations
Yalta and Potsdam between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
Iron Curtain Speech
2. Why was the UN created? What did it replace?
Truman’s Containment Policy
Truman Doctrine
3. What was Prime Minister Churchill referring to when
Marshall Plan
he delivered his Iron Curtain Speech in 1946?
Berlin Blockade
4. Make connections between the following keyterms:
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Blockade, Berlin Airlift, Checkpoint Charlie
NATO vs. Warsaw Pact
Incident
Brinkmanship
Space Race Events
5. Identify NATO and its purpose. What was created in
Sputnik I & II
response to this?
Korean War
Vietnam War
6. What are the 6 strategies of the Cold War? Briefly
Domino Theory
describe each of them.
China Falls to Communism
7. Provide 3 major points of the Space Race.
Berlin Wall Construction
Checkpoint Charlie Incident
8. What do the Korean and Vietnam wars represent?
Cold War’s Division of the World:
“Third Force”-Unaligned Countries
Cuban Revolution- Fidel Castro
Cuban & Soviet Relationship
Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Khrushchev
U.S. President Kennedy
Bay of Pigs Invasion
“Hot Spots”- Nicaragua, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan
Eastern Bloc Countries Revolt
Destalinization
Khrushchev
Prague Spring/Czechoslovakian Uprising
Détente & U.S. President Nixon
S.A.L.T.
How so?
Final Stages of Cold War
U.S. President Reagan
Gorbachev
Glasnost
Fall of Berlin Wall
15. Explain the process and motivation behind
Destalinization.
9. Describe the domino theory and the countries
involved.
10. Why did the Soviet Union support Cuba?
11. Why is the Cuban Missile Crisis considered to be
one of the most intense events of the Cold War?
12. What “hot spot” issues were taking place during the
Cold War in Latin America and the Middle East?
13. Why did the U.S. supply Afghan rebels
(Mujahideen) with weapons?
14. How did the Soviet Union utilize countries in the
Eastern Bloc? How did they eventually react?
16. How is the Prague Spring reflective of anticommunism?
17. Make connections between the following keyterms:
Khrushchev, Nixon, Détente, S.A.L.T.
18. Explain how Reagan’s approach with the Soviet
Union contrasted with Nixon’s.
19. How did Gorbachev and the Soviet Union act
towards the U.S. by the end of the Cold War? What
policy did he have in place?
20. What does the falling of the Berlin Wall symbolize?