Cold War Unit Questions for Study
1. What was the Cold War?
2. How did the differences at the Yalta Conference between the Western Allies (Churchill and Roosevelt) and Stalin foreshadow the Cold War?
3. What was the Potsdam Conference, and how did it lead to the Cold War?
4. How was the city of Berlin a particular problem?
5. What did Winston Churchill mean when he said an “Iron Curtain has descended across Europe?”
6. Why did the U.S. have to conduct the “Berlin Airlift?”
7. In 1947, what happened in Greece and Turkey that concerned the U.S.?
8. Why would Joseph Stalin have a problem with the Truman Doctrine?
9. What was America’s Cold War policy of Containment?
10. What were the three main purposes of the Marshall Plan?
11. Why was 1949 for the U.S. in its attempt to prevent Soviet expansion and the spread of Communism?
12. Who was Mao Zedong?
13. What was the 2nd Red Scare?
14. Who were the Rosenberg, and how did they contribute to the Red Scare?
15. Who was Joseph McCarthy and how did he contribute to the Red Scare?
16. What did HUAC have to do with the Red Scare?
17. How did the case Dennis v. the U.S. affect American civil liberties?
18. Why did the U.S. go to war in Korea?
19. What did the Korean War have to do with containment?
20. What is an armistice and what is the 38th Parallel?
21. What is the situation with North Korea today?
22. What was the purpose of NATO, and what was the Warsaw Pact?
23. What was the importance of Sputnik, how did it change America?
24. Why was the Berlin Wall such a big issue during the Cold War?
25. What is Propaganda and what was Radio Free Europe?
26. Although the U.S. and Russia never actually went to war, where did the Cold War turn Hot?
27. What was the Domino Theory?
28. Who was Fidel Castro and why was he a problem for the U.S. during the Cold War?
29. What was President Kennedy’s goal for establishing the Peace Corp and Alliance for Progress?
30. What was the Bay of Pigs and why was it an embarrassment for President Kennedy?
31. What were the results of the Bay of Pigs?
32. What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis?
33. What resulted from the Cuban Missile Crisis?
34. Why did the U.S. become involved in a war in Vietnam?
35. What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
36. How did Television affect the war in Vietnam?
37. What was Kent State?
38. What was the outcome of the war in Vietnam?
39. What was the War Powers Act?
40. What did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and Vietnam have to do with the War Powers Act?
41. How did the war in Vietnam contribute to the 26th Amendment to the Constitution?
42. How does the 26th Amendment reflect the idea that the U.S. Constitution is a living document?
43. What was the result of President Richard Nixon’s policy of Détente?
44. What was President Jimmie Carter’s effect on Détente?
45. Who said “Tear Down this Wall,” and to what was he referring?
46. What was Perestroika and Glasnost?
47. What was the result of Perestroika and Glasnost?
48. What was important about the year 1989 regarding the Cold War?
Cold War Vocabulary
1. Cold War
2. Yalta Conference
3. Potsdam Conference
4. Berlin
5. East Berlin
6. West Berlin
7. Iron Curtain
8. Winston Churchill
9. Joseph Stalin
10. Blockade
11. Berlin Airlift
12. Truman Doctrine
13. Containment
14. The Marshal Plan
15. strategic bombing
16. infrastructure
17. The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
18. Mao Zedong
19. 2nd Red Scare
20. The Rosenbers
21. McCarthyism
22. House Committee On Un-American Activities (HUAC)
23. Dennis vs. the U.S.
24. Korean War
25. 38th Parallel
26. North Korea
27. South Korea
28. Armistice
29. NATO
30. Warsaw Pact
31. Mutual Defense Organization
32. International Organization for Mutual Assistance
33. The Space Race
34. Sputnik
35. National Defense Education Act
36. Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.)
37. Berlin Wall
38. Propaganda
39. Mass Media
40. Radio Free Europe
41. 3rd World Country
42. Domino Theory
43. Southeast Asia
44. Fidel Castro
45. Peace Corps
46. Alliance for Progress
47. Harry S. Truman
48. Dwight D. Eisenhower
49. John F. Kennedy
50. Bay of Pigs
51. Cuban Missile Crisis
52. Brinkmanship
53. Mutually Assured Destruction
54. Ho Chi Minh
55. Vietcong
56. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
57. Congressional Declaration of War
58. War Powers Act
59. Kent State
60. 26th Amendment
61. Détente
62. SALT
63. Gorbachev
64. Evil Empire
65. Glasnost
66. Perestroika
67. 1989, Berlin Wall Fell