Cold War Exam
Monday, May 17th
Those absent on Exam Day will be subject to a make-up exam.
Materials to Study:
Document Packets:
- Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech
- Marshall Plan
- Truman Doctrine
- Warsaw Pact
- NATO Treaty
- Why They Call it a W-A-R
- Maps and Timelines of Korea, Germany, Vietnam
Textbook:
Chapter 33 Sections 1,3,4,5
Chapter 35, Sections 3 & 4
Class Notes:
- Yalta and Potsdam Notes
- Hot Spots of the Cold War
- Germany: Divison and Unification Packet
- Vietnam War Packet and Effects Notes
- Command Economy vs. Free Market Economy
- Cool Down of the Cold War
- Collapse of the Soviet Union
Terms to Know:
Cold War
USSR
US
Command Economy
Free Market Economy
Factors of Production
Capitalism
Democracy
Communism
Yalta & Potsdam Conferences
Iron Curtain
Churchill, Atlee, Stalin, Kruschev, Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Nixon, JFK
Marshall Plan
Truman Doctrine
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Berlin Blockade
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall
Containment
Domino Theory
Sputnik
Space Race
Arms Race
Korean War
-38th Parallel
Vietnam War
- N. Vietnam
- S. Vietnam
- Vietcong
- Vietnamization
- Guerilla Warfare
Developing Nations
- Nicaragua
- Cuba
- Chile
- Congo
- Egypt
- Guatemala
Nonaligned Nation
Brehznev
Dubcek
Detente
SALT
Star Wars
Gorbachev
Glasnost
Perestroika
Solidarity
Walesa
Yeltsin
Shock Therapy
Short Answer Questions:
1. Discuss three examples of how the United States and other Western nations carried out the policy of containment (ex: Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Vietnam War, NATO, Korean War, Berlin Airlift).
2. Discuss the impact of the Cold War on international relations. (Examples: US or USSR relations with China, Vietnam, Korea, Nicaragua, Cuba, Chile, Egypt, Congo, Guatemala)
3. Discuss the basic differences between a command economy and a free market economy.
4. Discuss three conditions that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. (Examples: Detente, resistance in satellite nations, Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika, solidarity, reunification of Germany, Yeltsin's "shock therapy")
Exam Format:
Multiple Choice
Short Answer
Identifying Terms (Who, what, where, when, SO WHAT?-- why is this important to the big picture of the Post World War II World?)
