UNIT FOURTEEN: THE COLD WAR
Unit 14: The Cold War (Selections of Chapter 32 and 33)
Terms: Define the following as they pertain to the historical topic at hand.
Term
Cold War
Iron Curtain
Superpowers
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Satellites (countries, not
technology)
Truman Doctrine
Containment
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
Cuban Missile Crisis
Proxy War
Korean War
Define
Importance (why is this
significant?)
Vietnam War
Détente
Space Race
Brezhnev Doctrine
Glasnost
Perestroika
People: Identify the following individuals
Individual(s)
Location
Significance/ importance to history
Harry S. Truman
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Leniod Brezhnev
John F. Kennedy
Mikhail Gorbachev
Map Activity: Place the countries/places listed below on the map. Create a color key to demonstrate
the coordination.
Charts: Complete the chart using information from class as well as your textbook.
Positives and Negatives of the Cold War
Positive Effects
Negative Effects
Primary Sources: Use the documents to answer the following questions. Use complete sentences.
1) What is Stalin’s goal in this
cartoon? When would he have been
doing this?
2) How do these actions affect
the United States? What do we do
in response?
1)
What is
going on
in this
cartoon?
2) Why will
neither
side use
the
nuclear
weapons?
3) What event in history does this represent?
Summary Questions: Answer the following questions in 3+ full sentences
1)
Explain the multiple causes of the Cold War.
2) What makes the Cold War “cold”? Explain how superpowers were able to fight without fighting.
3) Choose three of the following countries and explain how the Cold War affected them: Korea,
Vietnam, Cuba, Nicaragua, Poland, Hungary, Afghanistan and Czechoslovakia.