Study
Guide – Chapter 17
17.1
Yalta Conference
United Nations
Iron Curtain, 1946
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
Harry S. Truman
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift, 1948
Cold War, 1948-1991
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Brinkmanship
Arms race
Space race
Sputnik, 1957
Apollo 11, 1969
17.2
Mao Zedong
Jiang Jieshi
Civil war, 1946-1949
Taiwan/Formosa
Tibet
Marxist Socialism
‘Great Leap Forward’
Communes
Red Guards
Cultural Revolution
17.3
38th parallel
Korean War, 1950-1953
Douglas MacArthur
DMX
Kim Il Sung
Kim Jong Il
Vietnam War, 1954-1973 (US involvement 1964-1973)
Ho Chi Minh
Domino theory
Ngo Dinh Diem
Vietcong
Vietnamization
Khmer Rouge
Pol
Pot
‘boat people’
17.4
Third World
Cold War strategies of CIA & KGB
Nonaligned nations
Bandung Conference, 1955
Fidel Castro
Cuban Revolution, 1959
Bay of Pigs, 1961
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
Nicaragua
Anastasio Somoza
Daniel Ortega
Sandinistas
Iran
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini
1979 Revolution
Afghanistan, 1979-1989
Taliban
17.5
Nikita Khrushchev
Destalinization
Hungarian Revolt, 1956
Imre Nagy
Leonid Brezhnev
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Alexander Dubček
Prague Spring, 1968
Brezhnev Doctrine
Soviet-Chinese Split
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Détente
Richard M Nixon
Beijing, 1972
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), 1972
Ronald Reagan
essay topics
(remember you will have a few topics to choose from, and these topics are not exact questions!!!):
- describe the spread of communism after WW2 and its present effects
- analyze the political, cultural, and economic changes in China from 1959 to present day
- describe the events of the Cold War
- what started the Cold War
- analyze the effects of the space race
- describe the evolution of environmental awareness and its present-day effect
- describe the effect technological advances have had on all aspects of modern life
- analyze the effects of the end of the Cold War on international politics
- understand the role of the US in political, economic and cultural trends from WW2 till today
- describe the evolution and influence of the United Nations and other international organizations
Extra Credit:
Create a review game by yourself or with a partner the day before the test to present
to the class. Worth up to +5 on your test.
Review Materials:
The following questions are helpful review questions for the test.
You should also use the review questions at www.classzone.com and www.phschool.com/athome.
Cold War Timeline - Assigned 4/25/13. Fill out the events for a review of the important dates and events in the Cold War!
Notes 4/26-27/2010 - these are .jpgs! sorry!
Chinese Revolution Notes 4/18/2014 - these are .jpg files!
Links for Reform and Collapse Worksheet:
There are some fascinating yet truly disturbing videos online about nuclear testing and other
aspects of the Cold War. Some are listed as follows:
Cold War in 9 Minutes video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVqziNV7dGY
Tiananmen Square - Thanks to Dylan B. for finding this PBS special on the Tank Man to learn more about the protests at Tiananmen Square in 1989 in China. You can view the entire video online here.
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