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Cold War Study Guide
1. What were the details and significance of the
Yalta Conference?
2. What two economic and political systems
competed during the Cold War?
3. What new technological development (used at
the end of World War II) changed the way nations
interacted with each other?
4. Explain the Domino Theory and the policy of
Containment.
5. What is NATO (what does it stand for and what is
it)? What was the Soviet response to NATO?
6. What was the Korean Conflict (who fought on
what sides, RESULT)?
7. Explain the Cuban Missile Crisis. What was the
significance of the Cuban Missile Crisis? Leaders?
8. What was the real motivation behind the
Truman Doctrine?
9. Explain the conflict and results of the conflict in
Vietnam. (Who are the leaders?) Where was
Vietnam divided?
10. What was the “iron curtain”?
11. Who were the two sides and what was the
result of the Chinese Civil War?
12. Why did the U.S. join the Korean and Vietnam
Conflicts?
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13. Why is Taiwan significant?
14. When did Communism fall and who were the
leaders given credit for the end to the Cold War?
15. What happened to the U.S.S.R. and its satellite
states post-Cold War?
16. What symbolized the end of the Cold War and
the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe?
17. What countries controlled Berlin after WWII?
18. Define deterrence.
19. What part of Europe did the Soviet Union
control after WWII?
What happened under each of these people’s leadership?
20. INDIRA GANDHI
21. MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
22. MARGARET THATCHER
23. DENG XIAOPING
24. RONALD REAGAN
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