Mrs. Fales
World History
Cold War
Cold War Study Guide
Key Terms
The Cold War
Communism
United Nations
“Iron Curtain”
NATO
Nikita Khrushchev
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Molotov Plan
Warsaw Pact
Fidel Castro
Cuban Missile Crisis
S.A.L.T.
S.A.L.T. II
Star Wars
Ayatollah Ruhuolla
Khomeini
Description
Answer
Speech by American President that says US will support free people
trying to resist communism
Soviets stop transportation to/from West Berlin
First man made satellite to orbit the Earth
US secret mission to invade Cuba and overthrow Castro
This led to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Allied action keeps West Berlin from Soviet control
Allies for a defensive alliance against communist aggression started
with 10 Western European Nations and the US and Canada
Soviet pact made up of 8 Eastern European Nations
CIA authorized spy planes to fly over the USSR – one was shot down
by the USSR and the pilot was captured
US placed Missiles in Turkey
Soviets attempt to place missiles in Cuba
Soviet Union rejected participation in the Marshall plan and decided
to create an economic union of Eastern European Nations
U.S responds to the space race
An economic organization of the Soviet Union and satellite
Communist countries of Eastern Europe that encourages
economic development
Khrushchev begins to build 42 missile site on Cuba
US Post War Aid Program/European Recovery Program
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de-Stalinization
democratization
Mikhail Gorbachev
glasnost
Date
Mrs. Fales
World History
Cold War
5 Elements of the Arms Race
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2.
Key Points to the Cold War
1.
2.
DATE
3.
4.
3.
4.
Event
USSR bans Communism
Perestroika
SALT II
Star Wars Program
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the leader of the USSR
Leonid Brezhnev succeeds Khrushchev as the leader of the USSR
SALT Treaty
Reunification of Germany
Fall of the Berlin Wall
USSR Invades Afghanistan
IRON CURTAIN
UNITED STATES
5.
USSR
Mrs. Fales
World History
Cold War
Explain the following:
1. Summarize the Soviet Union leading up to the Cold War (major events/people).
2. Why did the Cold War exisit?
3. What is MAD?
4. What 3 regions did both the USA and USSR target for gaining allies?
5. Who was Castro?
6. Describe the Cuban Missile Crisis.
7. What happened in Afghanistan in
1950’s
1970’s
And how did the rebels have US weapons?
8. What was the goal of the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi? What country is he the ruler of?
9. What was the goal of the Ayatollah Khomeini?
10. What was the major different religiously between Iran and Iraq? Why is this significant?
Mrs. Fales
World History
Cold War
11. What is De-Stalinization?
12. What is Détente?
13. What did Ronald Regan do? What were his policies in the Cold War?
14. Explain Gorbachev and glasnost?
Person
Stalin
Truman
Fidel Castro
John F Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlavi
Ayatollah Ruholla
Khomeini
Leonid Brezhnev
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Boris Yeltsin
Significance in the Cold War
Mrs. Fales
World History
Cold War
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