Mrs. Fales World History Cold War Cold War Study Guide Key Terms The Cold War Communism United Nations “Iron Curtain” NATO Nikita Khrushchev Containment Truman Doctrine Marshall Plan Molotov Plan Warsaw Pact Fidel Castro Cuban Missile Crisis S.A.L.T. S.A.L.T. II Star Wars Ayatollah Ruhuolla Khomeini Description Answer Speech by American President that says US will support free people trying to resist communism Soviets stop transportation to/from West Berlin First man made satellite to orbit the Earth US secret mission to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro This led to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Allied action keeps West Berlin from Soviet control Allies for a defensive alliance against communist aggression started with 10 Western European Nations and the US and Canada Soviet pact made up of 8 Eastern European Nations CIA authorized spy planes to fly over the USSR – one was shot down by the USSR and the pilot was captured US placed Missiles in Turkey Soviets attempt to place missiles in Cuba Soviet Union rejected participation in the Marshall plan and decided to create an economic union of Eastern European Nations U.S responds to the space race An economic organization of the Soviet Union and satellite Communist countries of Eastern Europe that encourages economic development Khrushchev begins to build 42 missile site on Cuba US Post War Aid Program/European Recovery Program NA de-Stalinization democratization Mikhail Gorbachev glasnost Date Mrs. Fales World History Cold War 5 Elements of the Arms Race 1. 2. Key Points to the Cold War 1. 2. DATE 3. 4. 3. 4. Event USSR bans Communism Perestroika SALT II Star Wars Program Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the leader of the USSR Leonid Brezhnev succeeds Khrushchev as the leader of the USSR SALT Treaty Reunification of Germany Fall of the Berlin Wall USSR Invades Afghanistan IRON CURTAIN UNITED STATES 5. USSR Mrs. Fales World History Cold War Explain the following: 1. Summarize the Soviet Union leading up to the Cold War (major events/people). 2. Why did the Cold War exisit? 3. What is MAD? 4. What 3 regions did both the USA and USSR target for gaining allies? 5. Who was Castro? 6. Describe the Cuban Missile Crisis. 7. What happened in Afghanistan in 1950’s 1970’s And how did the rebels have US weapons? 8. What was the goal of the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi? What country is he the ruler of? 9. What was the goal of the Ayatollah Khomeini? 10. What was the major different religiously between Iran and Iraq? Why is this significant? Mrs. Fales World History Cold War 11. What is De-Stalinization? 12. What is Détente? 13. What did Ronald Regan do? What were his policies in the Cold War? 14. Explain Gorbachev and glasnost? Person Stalin Truman Fidel Castro John F Kennedy Nikita Khrushchev Mikhail Gorbachev Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini Leonid Brezhnev Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan Boris Yeltsin Significance in the Cold War Mrs. Fales World History Cold War
