Ch 33 Study Guide
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1. Vocab:
A. United Nations (UN)
B. Iron Curtain
C. Containment
D. The Truman Doctrine
E. The Marshall Plan
F. The Cold War
G. Cold War
H. NATO (know what it stands for too)
I. The Warsaw Pact
J. Arms Race
K. Sputnik
L. Nationalize
M. Dalai Lama
N. Viet Minh/Viet Cong
O. The Tet Offensive
P. Vietnamization
Q. 1st World Countries
R. 2nd World Countries
S. 3rd World Countries
T. Non-aligned Countries
U. Brinkmanship
V. Surrogate Wars
W. Ayatollah
X. The Brezhnev Doctrine
Y. Detente
Z. SALT Treaties
2. What led to tensions between the US + USSR?
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3. What did Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin agree to at the Yalta Conference?
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4. What was probably the most important Soviet goal after WWII?
What did it need to accomplish that goal?
5. What happened to Germany after WWII?
What was West Germany?
What was East Germany?
What happened to Berlin?
What were the circumstances of the Berlin Airlift?
6. Who led the communists in China?
How did the peasants feel about them?
Who led the nationalists in China?
What did they do with aid given to them by the US?
7. What were the 2 Chinas and who ruled each?
8. Why did Mao propose the “Great Leap Forward”?
What was it?
What happened as a result?
9. What was the Cultural Revolution?
Who were the Red Guard and what did they do?
10. What did China do to Tibet after conquering it?
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11. What was significant about the 38th parallel?
12. How did the Korean War begin?
How did Pres. Truman get the US involved?
Who led the UN forces during the Korean War?
Why would he later be removed from his position?
When did the Korean War begin and end (you just need to know the years)?
What separates North and South Korea today?
What do many hope for the 2 Koreas?
13. What countries made up Indochina?
What country controlled Indochina?
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
What were the Viet Minh + Viet Cong?
14. What was the 1st Indochina War?
What was important about the battle of Dien Bien Phu?
What happened to Vietnam after the 1st Indochina War?
15. What did the domino theory justify?
16. Who ruled North Vietnam?
Who ruled South Vietnam?
How did many South Vietnamese think of their government?
17. What kind of attacks did Pres. Johnson launch on North Vietnam?
What did the North Vietnamese do?
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
18. When was the Vietnam War (you only need to know the years)?
What weaknesses did the US face during the Vietnam War?
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What happened at My Lai?
19. What was Nixon’s plan to get the US out of Vietnam?
What happens to the countries surrounding Vietnam?
20. Describe how South Vietnam came under North Vietnam’s control (include the Treaty of Paris in your explanation):
21. What was the Khmer Rouge?
Who was their leader?
What did they do to Cambodians?
What did they want?
How were they defeated?
22. Where are 3rd world countries located?
What characteristics do they share?
How did the US and USSR try to gain/keep allies in the 3rd World?
23. How was the Cold War fought? (List AND EXPLAIN)!
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24. Who led Cuba’s communist revolution?
What did he do that upset Americans? (besides just the fact that he was communist)
What was the Bay of Pigs?
How did the Cuban Missile Crisis begin?
Who was providing the Cubans w/ the missiles?
Where did the US already have missiles?
What did Pres. Kennedy order?
Why was this 2 week period so scary to people?
What did each side agree to?
Who comes out of it appearing victorious?
Why?
25. Why did the US and USSR want allies in the Middle East so badly?
What did oil wealth do in the Middle East?
26. Who did the US support in Iran?
How did the people of Iran feel about him and why?
Who led the opposition?
What did he encourage and what did it lead to?
When Ayatollah Khomeini took power what did he establish?
What did Islamic revolutionaries do?
27. What was happening in Eastern European countries during the 1950s?
How did the USSR react?
How did the USSR justify its reaction?
28. Under which president did detente begin?
What did he believe?
Under which president did detente start to decline?
Why?
What did Ronald Reagan do as president?
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