History 12
Ms. Lacroix
Name ___________________________________
Unit 5 – Progress & Uncertainty: The Cold War (1963-1991)
Learning Outcomes
 Identify and discuss the reasons for and outcome of the Vietnam War
 Evaluate the impact of nationalism in the Middle East, Indochina, Eastern
Europe, and the U.S.S.R.
 Discuss the role of the great/superpowers in the Middle East
 Understand and assess the importance of détente during the Cold War
 Discuss the role of the nuclear arms race in the last decades of the Cold
War
 Discuss the role of technology in the collapse of the Cold War
 Assess the reasons for the end of communism in Eastern Europe and the
U.S.S.R.
 Assess the role of Mikhail Gorbachev in the events leading up to the
collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War
Tasks to be completed
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2.
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4.
Lecture style note-taking
DBQs
Unit Quizzes
Final Exam
Terms to know:
Vietnam
Viet Cong
Henry Kissinger
Pol Pot
Palestin War
Golan Heights
Six Day War
OPEC
Ayatollah Khomeini
Margaret Thatcher
Détente
Helsinki Accords
Solidarity
Janos Kadar
Helmut Kohl
Nicolae Ceausescu
Ethnic Cleansing
Boris Yeltsin
Ho Chi Minh
Dien Bien Phu
Geneva Agreement
Gulf of Tonkin
Ho Chi Minh Trail Vietnamization
Two Track Formula
Pathet Lao
Khmer Rouge
Boat People
Arab League
Ben Gurion
Suez War
Gamal Nasser
Aswan Dam
El Fatah/P.L.O.
Gaza Strip
West Bank
Moshe Dayan
Anwar Sadat
Yom Kippur War
Camp David Accords
Islamic Fundamentalism
Shiite
Saddam Hussein
George Bush
Gulf War
Babrak Karmal
Mujaheddin
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
S.A.L.T. I/II
Cruise Missile
Strategic Defence Initiative
Lech Walesa
General Jaruzelski Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Jozsef Natal
Erich Honecker
Eron Krenz
Vaclav Havel
Alexander Dubcek Velvet Revolution
Tidor Zhivkov
Slobodan Milosevic Franjo Tudjman
Leonid Brezhnev
Apparatachiks
Mikhail Gorbachev
Glasnost
Perestroika
Reform Congres
Readings
Howarth (Grey) text:
Chapter 34  pp. 201
Chapter 36  pp. 217-230
Chapter 37  pp. 235-239
Chapter 38  pp. 244-245
Chapter 43  pp. 277-280
Chapter 45  pp. 288-294
Chapter 46  pp. 295-298
DeMarco (Red) text:
Chapter 17  pp. 214-223
Chapter 19  pp. 242-252
Chapter 18  pp. 229-241
Chapter 16  pp. 199 - 212
History 12
Ms. Lacroix
name ____________________________________
Progress & Uncertainty – pre-lesson questions
Lesson 1 & 2Key Concepts:
Key Players:
The Vietnam War
containment
‘Titoist’ communism
nationalism
Cold war
domino theory
Vietnamization
Guerilla warfare
Nixon Doctrine
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Diem Bien Phu
Ho Chi Minh
ARVN
North Vietnamese Army
United States
Viet Cong
NLF
(Eisenhower, Kennedy,
Johnson, Nixon)
Preamble: WWII demonstrated to the USA that isolationism based on a false
sense of security failed. Containment and intervention were the new policies.
Does this compromise the historical notion of national self-determination?
Is national security compromised by revolutionary independence movements?
South Vietnam under Diem 1954-63
Nepotism and graft
Key Notes
First Indochina War (Vietnam)
Vietnam Conflict
1946-54
1961-75
FRANCE
AMERICA (military action
from 1965-72)
Today there is one country called the Republic of Vietnam
Americans not defeated in the field but withdraw after 1973 truce
Are economically weak today
Vietnam in 1945
 The French, Japanese, Viet Minh and Emperor Bao Dai all claim rule over
Vietnam
 After fall of France in 1940, French Indochina under Japanese control
 VIET MINH opposed to French and Japanese imperialism, waged guerilla
warfare until Japanese are ousted in 1945

HO CHI MINH set up government in Hanoi, called Democratic People’s
Republic of Vietnam, but France returns to Indochina and gains control of
the South – North Vietnam refuses to be controlled by France and latter
would not grant independence – hence the conflict

Viet Minh – nationalist or communist?
THE FIRST INDOCHINA WAR – 1946-54
Reasons for?
(H 201)
Why victory for the Viet Minh?
(include Dien Bien Phu.
(D 215)
Geneva Agreements (Accord) of 1954
Provide specific details plus hist. sig.
(D 215)
(H 214)
(mapbook 128)
Eisenhower’s “domino theory”
(D 215)
ANZUS Pact (1951)
(H 215)
SEATO 1954
(H 215)
Purpose
Members
Weaknesses
Historical significance
Reasons for French loss in Indochina (in class)
Map Book page 128-29 – make sure you are familiar with this geographic
area…
CHINA
CAMBODIA
THAILAND
LAOS
VIETNAM (N and S)