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Cold War
Name _______________________ Date __________ Period ___
Chapter 38: The Origins of the Cold War
Yalta Conference
Potsdam Conference
UN Atomic Energy Commission
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Molotov Plan
QUESTIONS
1. Why were the Soviets and Americans so glad to meet on the Elbe river?
2. What did Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin talk about at the Yalta Conference?
3. At which conference did they finalize their power war plans for Germany?
4. Why were Truman and Stalin’s views so different?
5. How many Soviets died during war? How many Americans?
6. What did Truman “get tough” about with the Soviet Union.
7. Explain the US System of Capitalism.
8. Explain the USSR’s System of Communism.
9. What is the Long Telegram?
10. What is the policy of Containment? Who came up with the idea?
11. What happened at Bikini Atoll and Marshall Islands, in the Pacific?
12. What was asked of the UN about atomic energy?
13. What is the Baruch plan?
14. What is the IRON CURTAIN??? Who gave the speech?
15. What happened in Romania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia?
16. Which Countries did the Truman Doctrine help?
17. What did the National Security Act create? (two new agencies)
18. How were the conditions in Europe?
19. How did the US and USSR engage in a tug of war contest during the cold war?
VOCABULARY
Berlin Blockade
Name _______________________ Date __________ Period ___
Chapter 39: The Cold War Expands
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Warsaw Pact
Korean War
Third World
H-Bomb
Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD)
QUESTIONS
1.
What happened during the U-2 incident?
2.
Which 3 countries merged their occupations zones together to form a new country? Which country did not merge?
3.
What did Truman do with the Berlin Airlift?
4.
How did the coup d’etat take over in Czechoslovakia bring drastic changes to their country?
5.
List the 12 countries in NATO.
6.
List the 8 countries in the Warsaw Pact.
7.
What happened in Hungary? Why did the US not come to their rescue?
8.
Who led the communists in China and who led the nationalists?
9.
What did the US fear would happen after China fell to Communism?
10. Why did the US help Japan become an economic powerhouse?
11. What was the newly formed country of China called in 1949? Who ended up in Taiwan?
12. What happened to trade with China? When did the US eventually resume relations with China?
13. How was Korea divided?
14. General MacArthur led troops and nearly defeated North Korea until they received back up from this country?
15. What did MacArthur call for that was rejected by Truman? Why would Truman reject this idea?
16. What was the 38th parallel? Another name for it and what was it at the end of the war…
17. Why would the soviets try and ban their citizens from listening to Western radio?
18. Why would the US withhold aid to certain nations?
19. What happened in Egypt in 1956?
20. What is the CIA? How did the CIA play a part in the Cold War?
21. How did the H-bomb affect the arms race?
22. What did Sec of State John Dulles state about brinkmanship and nuclear weapons?
23. What did the combination of deterrence and the willingness to use nuclear weapons become known as?
24. What is the SALT treaty? What were some recent ideas about defending terrorism?
VOCABULARY
Communist Sympathizer
Name _______________________ Date __________ Period ___
Chapter 40: Fighting the Cold War at Home
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Alger Hiss Case
Rosenberg Trial
McCarthyism
Atomic Age
Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA)
QUESTIONS
1. Why did children growing up during the Cold War live in fear?
2. What was the pamphlet published in 1951 about?
3. What was communist party membership in 1950
4.
Why was the Federal Employee Loyalty Program created?
5. Why was the film industry a target of communism? Who was the Hollywood 10?
6. Why was the blacklist created?
7. What did Whittaker Chambers accuse Hiss of doing?
8. What were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg charged with?
9. List some specific actions Joseph McCarthy did during McCarthyism.
10. What happened to McCarthy in the end?
11. What was Pat Frank trying to capture in Alas Babylon?
12. What is the “Atomic Cocktail?”
13. Where did the 2 piece bathing suit get its name?
14. Why did Nevada turn into a tourist site?
15. Why was the FCDA established in 1951?
16. What did Bert the Turtle teach children in the film?
17. What were “fallout shelters” used for?
18. What was Operation Alert?
19. What did the NY Times state on June 16th 1955?
20. What did young mothers do in NY in 1960 opposing the Nuclear Arms Race?