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US History: Chapter 16 Study guide
Section 1
Iron Curtain
Marshall Plan
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Truman Doctrine
Warsaw Pact
Containment
Cold War
Berlin airlift
1. What countries remained under Soviet control after WW 2 ended?
2. Who coined the term “Iron Curtain?”
3. What actions did the Soviet Union resort to in an attempt to gain control of West Berlin?
4. What were some examples of military alliances (collective security) formed during the Cold War?
Section 2
Jiang Jieshi
38th parallel
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Mao Zedong
South East Asian Treaty Organization (SEATO)
Douglas MacArthur
Limited war
1. Who did the United States back in China’s civil war?
2. What event that occurred in 1950 set off the Korean conflict?
3. General MacArthur chose what city for a counterattack against N. Korea?
4. How did the American public view General MacArthur after President Truman fired him?
Section 3
Massive retaliation
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Brinkmanship
Suez Canal
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Eisenhower Doctrine
Arms race
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1. How did the Soviet detonation of an atomic bomb change U.S. – Soviet relations?
2. What happened after the U.S. refused to fund the Aswan dam?
3. What policy was John Foster Dulles associated with?
4. How did the CIA participate in the Cold War?
Section 4
Alger Hiss
Blacklist
Julius Rosenberg
Red Scare
House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)
Hollywood Ten
Joseph McCarthy
Smith Act
1. Where was one place in the world where the Cold War was “hot”?
2. Why was J. Robert Oppenheimer investigated?
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3. What happened to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
4. What led to Senator Joseph McCarthy’s downfall?
Chapter 15 short-essay questions:
1. This question will ask you to analyze a passage from the Marshall Plan. List what you know about
the Marshall Plan as well as how it helped Europe and why it was developed.
2. Why did the United States get involved in the Korean War? In what ways was the war a success and
in what ways was it a failure?