NAME
DATE
HOUR
THE COLD WAR STUDY GUIDE
Due Tuesday April 14th
Chapter 29.5 – The End of World War II
Part One: Key Terms – Define the following terms.
1. Cold War –
2. Truman Doctrine –
3. Marshall Plan –
4. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) –
5. Warsaw Pact –
Part Two: Guided Reading Questions – Answer the following questions.
6. What were Joseph Stalin’s two goals in Eastern Europe after WWII?
a.
b.
7. What was the goal of the U.S. foreign policy known as the Truman Doctrine?
8. Why do you think that the U.S. offered financial aid to the European countries devastated by WWII in what is
known as the Marshall Plan?
9. Describe how Germany was divided after WWII. How did the East and West have different types of
governments established (this part is on page 956)?
10. Why did the Western powers have to airlift food and supplies into Western Germany during 1948-1949?
11. Which type of countries belonged to the “eastern” blocs (Warsaw Pact) and the “western” blocs (NATO) in
Europe beginning in the 1950’s?
Chapter 30.1 – The Cold War Unfolds
Part One: Key Terms – Define the following terms.
12. Superpowers –
13. Anti-Ballistic Missiles (ABMs) –
14. Ronald Reagan –
15. Détente –
16. Fidel Castro –
17. Containment –
Chapter 30.2 – The Industrial Democracies
Part One: Key Terms – Define the following terms.
18. Suburbanization –
19. Segregation –
20. Discrimination –
21. Welfare State –
Chapter 30.3 – Communism Spreads in East Asia
Part One: Key Terms – Define the following terms.
22. 38th Parallel –
23. Kim Il Sung –
24. Syngman Rhee –
25. Demilitarized Zone –
Chapter 30.4 – The Vietnam War
Part One: Key Terms – Define the following terms.
26. Guerillas –
27. Ho Chi Minh –
28. Dienbienphu –
29. Domino Theory –
30. Viet Cong –
31. Tet Offensive –
Part Two: Guided Reading Questions – Answer the following questions.
32. What were the two phases of the nearly 30-year conflict known as the Vietnam War?
a.
b.
33. _______________________ overran French controlled Indochina during World War II.
34. How did the Western and communist powers decide to divide Vietnam in 1954? Who became the leader of
each side?
35. Why did American foreign policy planners view the situation of Vietnam as part of the global Cold War (hint:
describe the domino theory)?
36. What did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorize President Johnson to do?
37. Describe the guerilla war that the Vietnamese carried out against the American forces.
38. Due to increasing pressure to end the war, which American president finally withdrew all American troops
from Vietnam?
Chapter 30.5 – The End of the Cold War
Part One: Key Terms – Define the following terms
39. Mujahedin –
40. Mikhail Gorbachev –
41. Glasnost –
42. Perestroika –
43. Lech Walesa –
44. Solidarity –
45. Vaclav Havel –
46. Nicolae Ceausescu –
Part Two: Guided Reading Questions – Answer the following questions.
47. Describe some of the reforms of Josef Stalin’s successor Nikita Khrushchev in the Soviet Union.
48. What was the name of the first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957?
49. What were some of the severe problems that the Soviet command economy faced during the Cold War?
50. Soviet involvement in _____________________________ during the 1979-1988 period was similar to the
American involvement in ____________________________ during the 1960’s and 1970’s.
51. Who became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985?
52. What two things did Gorbachev do to try and avoid Cold War confrontations?
a.
b.
53. Describe the economic turmoil brought on by Gorbachev’s reforms in the late 1980s.
54. What happened to the remaining Soviet republics at the end of 1991?
55. How many years did the Soviet Union exist for?
56. _______________________ led the way in the resistance that shattered the Soviet empire. (country name)
57. How did East Germans know that the people of West Germany were much more prosperous and enjoyed
much more political freedom than them?
58. What was sweeping through the Eastern European countries by late 1989?
59. What year was the Warsaw Pact dissolved?
60. Which country became the only remaining “superpower” after the Soviet Union collapsed?