Cold War Essential Vocabulary
Origins of the Cold War:
Soviet Security Concerns
American Economic Concerns
Yalta Conference
Poland
Declaration of a Liberated Europe
German Occupation Zones
Romania
Potsdam Conference
German Recovery vs. German Reparations
Iron Curtain
Early Years of Cold War:
Containment Policy
George Kennan/Long Telegram
Crisis in Iran, Turkey, and Greece
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
West/East Germany
West/East Berlin
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Airlift
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Soviets Develop A-bomb
Chinese Civil War
Mao and Communist China
Taiwan
Korean War
Communist expansion
American intervention
UN intervention
Chinese intervention
Truman fired MacArthur
Forgotten War
Cold War and the American Society
Second Red Scare
Subversion
Loyalty Review Program
J. Edgar Hoover
HUAC
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Richard Nixon
“Pumpkin papers”
Perjury
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Project Verona
Oaths: college professors, union leaders, etc.
Joseph McCarthy
McCarthyism
The Hollywood Ten
Robert M. La Follette, Jr.
“The Party of Betrayal”
Dean Acheson
George C. Marshall
The McCarran Internal Security Act
Army-McCarthy Hearings
Joseph Welch
Censure
A-bomb
H-bomb
Nuclear Arms Race
Nuclear fallout
“duck and cover”
Fallout shelters
Pop-Culture and fear
Eisenhower’s Cold War Policies
Election of 1952
“More Bang for the Buck”
Massive Retaliation
Sputnik Crisis
NASA
National Defense Education Act
Brinkmanship
End of Korean War
DMZ
Taiwan Crisis
Suez Crisis
Covert
CIA
Containment in Developing Nations (Iran and Guatemala)
Hungarian Uprising
Nikita Khrushchev (can I buy an “h”?)
“We will bury capitalism….your grandchildren will live under communism.”
West Germany
Paris Summit
U-2 Plane/Francis Gary Powers
“Military-industrial complex”
Essential Questions
1.
How did the American and Soviet viewpoints that emerged late in WWII lead to a Cold
War?
A. Identify their respective viewpoints and their historical origins
B. Analyze the economic, political, and military policies of the Soviets and Americans in
a post-Hitler world.
2.
How were the policies of Soviet expansion and American containment reflected in the
international events of 1946-1953?
3.
How did the Cold War create a Second Red Scare in America?
4.
How did the Cold War evolve into American/Soviet scientific competition and military
brinkmanship?
Remedial
1.
Two columns (expansion and containment) and a word bank of events. Place the events
in the appropriate column.
2.
Given a list of events, the students will identify them as things that caused legitimate fear
versus things that were “fabricated” fears.
3.
Given a list of events, students will place them on a timeline and provide a brief
explanation of how they contributed to the American/Soviet competition and military
brinkmanship.
Enrichment
1.
In terms of political, social, and economic events occurring inside and outside the United
States, compare and contrast the First Red Scare to the Second Red Scare.
2.
How does the American government currently attempt to scare American citizens?
3.
How did we go from international competition to international cooperation? Cite some
scientific, economic, political, and military examples.