Cold War Pictures name ________________
(This sheet corresponds to the sections 1& 3 in the note packet that begins with Western Europe since WWII).
Define Truman Doctrine:
Briefly define
‘containment’:
Marshall Plan Description
NATO & WARSAW PACT Define NATO and Warsaw Pact
END OF EUROPEAN WORLD DOMINATION ( When? Where? Why?)
> What happened to European cities during WWII? ____________________________
> In 1900 Western culture viewed imperialism as positive as depicted in which poem?
> The purpose of WWII was to defeat __________. After WWII, imperialism was seen as evil . To comply with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights established by the United
Nations, decolonization occurred in India and Pakistan in _________. In which decades did
Decolonization occur in Africa? _________ (see chapter 33 part1 #4). Which European power
lost to Ho Chi Minh in 1954? _______ In which country? _____________.
Satellite states controlled by the USSR List five ‘satellite states’ that were controlled by the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
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Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill’s quote: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
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Description of Iron Curtain
Berlin Blockade & Airlift Tell when these events occurred and explain
what happened.
Berlin Wall Description
Cuban Missile Crisis What? When? Where? Why? Effects? See notes page 2 & Ch. 33, p.839
Effect  build up of nuclear arms (arms race)

Sputnik.
Launched 1957; started the Space Race between the U.S. and USSR;
showed that the U.S. lagged in science education  increases in education funding
Khrushchev Era (ruled from 1953-1964)
“We will bury you!” Who replaced Stalin as leader of the USSR?
What did Khrushchev denounce?
What did Khrushchev urge?
But what happened to the Cold War?
What happened to the Hungarians who revolted in 1956?
What did JFK (U.S.A.) force Khrushchev (USSR) to do during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Brezhnev Era (1964-1982) After Khrushchev was forced to resign, _________ came to power in the USSR. He crushed _______________, protestors who wanted more freedoms.
In 1968, Brezhnev sent troops into _________________ after leaders tried to implement reforms. This event was called
“Prague Spring.” (see life magazine 1968)
But the Iron curtain weakened in 1980 when Lech Walesa’s
_____________ Movement in ___________demanded reforms.
> Nuclear Arms Race: By the 1980s, there were enough nuclear weapons to blow up the
world _____ times.
>
Détente:
This term refers to the easing of ______________________ in the 1970s.
The best example of détente was S.A.L.T. which stood for _________________
____________________________
COLD WAR IN ASIA
1) The Korean War lasted from _______________ and ended in a _______________.
(The communists still rule North Korea; South Korea is allied with the U.S. and has
become prosperous. South Korea is one of the ‘Asian Tigers.’)
2) The Vietnam War lasted from ________________. It ended in a stalemate in 1973, but shortly after the U.S. pulled out most of its troops in _______, North Vietnam (communists)
defeated South Vietnam and became unified as a _____________ nation. Since the end of the
Cold War, they have moved toward a mixed economy. (Why is this ironic?)

Gorbachev: the Soviet Union (USSR) Collapses
USSR leader: 1985-1991
Interesting: Gorbachev generally gets high marks as a leader despite the fact that his government collapsed while he was ruler.
Define Gorbachev’s glasnost policy:
Define perestroika :
What did Gorbachev’s democratization policy allow?
What happened in 1991 when the hard-line
Communists tried to oust Gorbachev?
Who replaced Gorbachev? Classify this leader’s ruling style in one word:
Breakup of Yugoslavia
Who ruled Yugoslavia after WWII?
What type of government was put in place?
When did Yugoslavia break up?
Which form of genocide did Serbia resort to in an effort to keep Yugoslavia from collapsing?
How many people died?
Which Serbian leader (who conducted ethnic cleansing ) was convicted in a war crimes trial?
Expand the map and list the current countries that comprise the former Yugoslavia: