Guided Reading Questions Ch 18 L 1:
1. What might you infer about Khrushchev and Nixon from their body language and the
expression on their faces?
2. What problems might arise when neither man can speak the language of the other?
3. What can you infer about the man standing in the background between Khrushchev
and Nixon?
4. When does the Cold War begin?
5. When did construction on the Berlin Wall begin?
6. Did the Vietnam War end before or after President Nixon made a state visit to China?
7. How many years separate the start of the Korean War from the start of the Vietnam
War?
8. How might an atmosphere such as this lead to further conflict?
9. Which European countries aligned with the United States?
10. Which countries aligned with the USSR by signing the Warsaw Pact in 1955?
11. Why did the United States and the Soviet Union become political rivals after World
War II?
12. How do the locations of the Warsaw Pact countries differ from the locations of the
NATO counties? Why?
13. Why did the Soviet Union want to continue controlling territory in Eastern Europe
after World War II?
14. Why did the United States want to influence the governments of Eastern Europe?
15. Why did the United States implement the Marshal Plan?
16. Why do you think countries with economic problems might become communist?
17. What was the policy of containment?
18. Why do you think the United States chose a policy of containment rather than trying
to force Soviets out of Eastern Europe?
19. What is a blockade?
20. What were the effects of the Berlin Blockade?
21. What did the Marshal Plan and COMECON have in common?
22. What was the result of increased tension between the superpowers?
23. What do you think Churchill meant, and where on the map do you think the “Iron
Curtain” was?
24. How were the new alliances similar to the alliances that existed before World War I?
25. What was the idea behind the policy of deterrence?
26. What was the result of this policy?
27. How were the theory of deterrence and the arms race related?