AP US History - Chapter 24 Reading Guide
Part A
Using the text, answer the following on a separate sheet of paper. Be detailed in your responses.
1. How did World War II spark the Cold War?
2. What actions did Truman take against the Soviet Union?
3. How did the U.S. respond to the Soviet development of the atomic bomb and the rise of Mao Zedong?
4. Why did the U.S. join in the Korean War? What did they hope to accomplish?
5. How did Americans react to the possibility of a nuclear attack?
6. What charges were brought against Alger Hiss and the Rosenbergs? What do their trials reveal about the Second
Red Scare?
7. What criticisms did Joseph McCarthy face?
8. What were the causes of the arms race?
9. What was the Bay of Pigs operation and why did it fail?
10. Why as the Cuban Missile Crisis significant?
Part B
Provide a brief definition of each of the following key terms and people.
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Josef Stalin
containment
NATO
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin airlift
HUAC
McCarthyism
Part C
Provide a detailed example from the chapter for each of the 7 APUSH Learning Objectives on a separate sheet of paper.
19. B (Beliefs, Ideas, Culture)
20. A (America in the World)
21. G (Geography and Environment)
22. P (Peopling)
23. I (Identity)
24. P (Politics and Power)
25. E (Exchange, Work, and Technology)