This study guide will be due on day of Cold War Test: TERMS NOT REQUIRED only the DISCUSSION QUESTIONS. Chapter 26.1: The Origins of the Cold War Terms: • United Nations • Truman Doctrine • Satelite Nation • Marshall Plan • Containment • Berlin Airlift • Iron Curtain • North Atlantic Treaty Organization • Cold War Discussion Questions: 1. What caused suspicions between the US and USSR during WWII and the early Cold War period? 2. How did the US and USSR relate to each other at the United Nations? 3. What happened that created conflict at the Potsdam conference? 4. What was the essence of the disagreement between the US and the USSR in Europe? 5. How were the US and USSR different? 6. What action did the USSR take in the Europe that was opposed by the USA? 7. Identify the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. 8. Why did Stalin close access to Berlin? 9. How did the Allies get supplies to Berlin? 10. Why was the NATO alliance formed? Chapter 26.2: The Cold War Heats Up Terms: • Chaing Kai‐shek • Mao Zedong • Taiwan • 38th parallel • Korean War Discussion Questions: 1. What precipitated renewed civil war in China? 2. What was the outcome of the civil war in China? 3. How did the outcome of the Chinese civil war affect American politics? 4. How did Korea become divided into two countries? 5. How did the Korean War start? 6. Why did the United States go to the aid of South Korea? 7. What did MacArthur’s counterattack at Inchon accomplish? 8. What caused the disagreement between MacArthur and Truman? 9. How did the Korean War end? Chapter 26.3: The Cold War at Home Terms: • HUAC • Alger hiss • Hollywood ten • Ethel and Julius Rosenberg • Blacklist • Joseph McCarthy (McCarthyism) Discussion Questions: 1. Why were Americans worried about the security of the United States? 2. What was the purpose of the “loyalty review board”? 3. What did the HUAC do? 4. Discuss the investigations of Alger Hiss and the Rosenberg’s. 5. What was controversial about McCarthy’s tactics? 6. Why did Republicans remain silent during McCarthy’s witch hunt? 7. What led to McCarthy’s demise? 8. What other anti‐Communist measures were enacted in the 1950’s? Chapter 26.4: Two Nations Live on the Edge Terms: • H‐Bomb • Warsaw Pact • Dwight D. Eisenhower • Eisnehower Doctrine • John Foster Dulles • Nikita Kruschev • Brinksmanship • Francis G. Powers • CIA Discussion Questions: 1. How does the Hydrogen Bomb differ from the Atomic Bomb? 2. What was the policy of brinksmanship? 3. What covert actions did the US undertake in the Middle East and in Latin America? 4. What was the Warsaw Pact? 5. What happened at the Geneva Summit? 6. How did conflict over the Suez Canal start a war in the Middle East? 7. What was the Eisenhower Doctrine? 8. Discuss the events of the Hungarian uprising? 9. Discuss the impact that the creation of Israel had on the Cold War. 10. How did the launching of Sputnik impact the United States? OE: •
Two options: DUE 5/18 1. See me for an article review. 2. Rent and watch the film “Dr. Strangelove” and assess it on the following: a. Provide a brief plot summary. b. How did it expand on the fear and paranoia of the Cold War? c. How did it portray brinksmanship and Mutually Assured Destruction? d. Provide your opinion on the film. Section I: Kennedy and the Cold War Terms: • Flexible Response • Fidel Castro • Berlin Wall •
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Hotline Limited Test Ban Treaty Chapter Review: 1.
What issues helped Kennedy win in 1960? What was the Kennedy “mystique”? 2.
What political change did Fidel Castro undergo after taking power? 3.
What was the policy of flexible response? 4.
Why did Kennedy think it was necessary to develop a new military policy? 5.
How did the results of the Bay of Pigs invasion affect Castro and the United States? 6.
What happened in the Cuban Missile Crisis? 7.
Why did Cuban exiles turn against Kennedy and the Democrats? 8.
Why was the Beriln Wall built? 9.
How did Kennedy and Kruschev ease tensions between their nations? OE: Due 5/21 Please watch and Review the film “Thirteen Days” and write a 500 word response discussing how the film reflects: • The Cold War World • The Cuban Missile Crisis • Kennedy’s leadership The Vietnam War: Section I Terms: • Ho Chi Minh • Ngo Dinh Diem • Vietminh • Viet Cong • Domino theory • Ho Chi Minh Trail • Dien Bien Phu • Tonkin Gulf Resolution • Geneva Accords Review Questions: 1. Who were the Vietminh and what were they fighting for? 2. What happened at Dien Bien Phu? 3. What was the result of the Geneva Accords? 4. Discuss the leadership of Ngo Dinh Diem? 5. Why did Kennedy support Diem? 6.
Explain the picture on page 940 and how that impacted Diem? 7. What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution? What powers did it give Johnson? Section II Terms: • Robert McNamara • Napalm • Dean Rusk • Agent Orange • William Westmoreland • Credibility Gap • ARVN 1. Why did Johnson in crease US troop numbers in Vietnam? 2. What tactics did the Vietcong use? 3. What results did they achieve? 4. Why did the US have “morale problems”? 5. How did the cost of the war impact the US economy? 6. Discuss the picture on page 846. Section III: Terms: • Draft • Free speech movement • New Left • Dove/Hawk • SDS Review Questions: 1. Why was the draft unfair? 2. What issues arose for African Americans during the Vietnam War? 3. What role did women play in the Military? 4. What was the porgram of the New Left? 5. What were colleges so pimportant to the New Left? 6. What issues fueled campus protests? 7. How did draft eligible youth respond to the draft? 8. Please analyze the picture on page 953. Section IV: Terms: • Eugene McCarthy • TET Offensive • George Wallace • Robert Kennedy • Hubert Humphrey 1. What was the TET offensive and how did it change American public opinion on the war? 2. How did the TET offensive change President Johnson’s popularity? 3. How did McCarthy change the reace for President in 1968? 4.
Why did Johnson choose not to run again in 68? 5.
Discuss the reaction to the two assassinations in 1968? 6.
How does the picture on 956 sum up the Vietnam War? 7.
Discuss the political climate at the convention in 1968? 8.
How did George Wallace influence it? 9. Discuss how the picture on 958 reflects upon a “democracy”. Section V: (for 5/15) Terms: The End of the War and its Legacy • Richard Nixon • My Lai • Henry Kissinger • Kent State • Vietnamization • Pentagon Papers • Silent Majority • War Powers Act 1. What was Vietnamization? 2. Discuss how the treaty negotiations went with North Vietnam? 3. What was the goal of Nixon’s Vietnam policy? 4. What happened at My Lai? How did it change America? 5. Why did students protest the invasion into Cambodia? 6. Discuss Kent State. 7. Analyze the significance of the picture on page 963. 8.
Discuss the song Ohio and the short film on Kent State 9.
What were the Pentagon Papers? 10. Discuss the peace settlement and the Cease Fire. 11. What did the Vietnam War achieve?