American History 9 (Phelps) Name ______Period ______
Chapter 18 Reading Guide
Section 18.1 Pgs. 602-608 Due: ______
1. At the Potsdam Conference, what did Stalin want from Germany? ______
2. Why did Stalin feel “justified” in controlling Eastern Europe after WWII? ______
3. What was meant by the term “policy of containment?” ______
4. What part of the world received U.S. aid in the Marshall Plan? ______
5. After WWII, which four countries occupied Germany? ______
6. The Berlin Airlift was a response to Stalin having done what? ______
7. What did the members of NATO agree to do? ______
8. How was joining NATO unique in American history? ______
Section 18.2 Pgs. 609-608 Due: ______
9. In what year did Communists under Mao Zedong gain control all of China? ______
10. How was China going Communist seen as a failure of the U.S.? ______
11. How was Korea similar to Germany after WWII? ______
12. Who supported the North Koreans in starting the Korean War in 1950? ______
13. Who came to the aid of the North Koreans in late 1950? ______
14. What did Gen. Douglas MacArthur want to do (that Truman did not)? ______
15. How did Truman handle the above disagreement? ______
Section 18.3 pgs. 616-621 Due: ______
16. How many Americans were members of the Communist Party during WWII? ______
17. What was the task of the Loyalty Review Board? ______
18. HUAC first major target was ______
19. Why were the Hollywood Ten imprisoned? ______
20. Who gained fame from the spying case against Alger Hiss? ______
21. In what year did the Soviets detonate their first atomic bomb? ______
22. What were the Rosenbergs charged with doing? ______
23. What has McCarthyism come to mean since the 1950s? ______
24. What became McCarthy’s downfall? ______
Section 18.4, pgs. 622-627 Due: ______
25. US detonated their first H bomb in what year? ______When did the Soviets? ______
26. How did Secretary of State Dulles view the Cold War? ______
27. How did the U.S. alter its armed forces for the policy of brinksmanship? ______
28. What two activities did the CIA of the 1950s focus on? ______
29. What did the Warsaw Pact countries have in common? ______
30. Eisenhower Doctrine: ______
31. How did the Soviet Union react to the uprising in Hungary? ______
32. How was Khrushchev different than Stalin? ______
33. What did the Soviet Union do in 1957 that scared us? ______
34. What policy towards the Soviet Union was the U.S. ready to give up by 1960 because it was too dangerous? ______
35. How did the U-2 incident effect U.S.-Soviet Union relations? ______