AP WORLD HISTORY, AMSCO CHAPTER 28

Period 6: 1900C.E to PresentName:Period:

The Cold War Era, Pages 551-572Absence Date: ______

  1. What did the Soviets fear and what did the Americans fear?
  2. What role did Wars like the Vietnam War play in the Cold War
  3. How many permanent members are on the U.N. Security Council?
  4. What affect did veto power have on the U.N. Security Council?
  5. How does the United Nations react to genocide?
  6. What does the United Nations try to do with refugees?
  7. What are two other agencies that work with money on the world stage?
  8. Explain what Churchill described as an "Iron Curtain"?
  9. What did the Soviets do to political parties in Eastern bloc countries?
  10. What did George Kennan advocate in regards to the Soviet Union?
  11. How did the Truman Doctrine keep the Dardanelles open for trade?
  12. What was the point of the Marshall Plan?
  13. What affect did the Berlin Airlift have on Germany?
  14. Describe what the Arms Race was?
  15. What was the first artificial satellite launched into space?
  16. How did Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles change war?
  17. What was the purpose of NATO?
  18. How was the Warsaw Pact a reaction to NATO?
  19. What was the special relationship of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union?
  20. What were four of the countries in the Non-Aligned Movement?
  21. What were two ways the United States fought the Soviets using the Non-Aligned Movement?
  22. What role did 5 year plans have on China and the Soviet Union program?
  23. How did Mao use the cultural Revolution of 1966 to his advantage?
  24. What programs did Deng Xiaoping institute in the 1980's in China?
  25. What was not included in the economic reforms of the 1980's?
  26. What was the result of the Cold War conflict in Korea?
  27. What U.S. president sent soldiers to Vietnam?
  28. What foreign policy did Lyndon B. Johnson advocate for in Vietnam?
  29. What U.S. president ended the Vietnam war for the United States?
  30. How did the Soviets react to the Hungarian independence movement?
  31. How did the Soviets react to the Czechoslovakian independence movement?
  32. What led to the development of the European Union?
  33. How does the Northern Ireland conflict simulate independence movements elsewhere?
  34. What did the Basque terrorist organization do to the handpicked leader of Spain?
  35. What event was the culmination of the American student protests?
  36. Why did the Soviets build the Berlin Wall?
  37. What caused the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
  38. What caused the Cuban Missile crisis?
  39. What was the "Hot Line" established between the Soviets and United States?
  40. What was one of the causes of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
  41. What did the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty seek to do?
  42. What treaty did Richard Nixon and the Soviets sign?
  43. What did the Soviets not like about Ronald Reagan 's "Star Wars" program?
  44. What Treaty did Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev sign?
  45. When people received freedom in economics what did they demand next?

Time Line:

1945 C.E.
United Nations Formed / 1948 C.E.
Berlin Airlift / 1956 C.E.
Soviet Invasion of Hungary / 1957 C.E.
Sputnik / 1966 C.E.
Cultural Revolution of China / 1968 C.E.
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia / 1989 C.E.
Tiananmen Square Massacre

Key Terms:

Deng Xiaoping

Nikita Khrushchev

Mikhail Gorbachev

United Nations (UN)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Warsaw Pact

European Union (EU)

Cold War

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Tiananmen Square

Korean War

Vietnam War

“Prague Spring”

Brezhnev Doctrine

Berlin Wall

Glasnost

Iron Curtain

Domino Theory

Sputnik

World Trade Organization (WTO)

Great Leap Forward

Euro

Perestroika