Democracy vs. Communism

1. Describe Communism (p. 530 NC)

2. Why was communism seen as a threat to democracy?

3. Define Cold War (p. 532-533 NC)

Draw the chart and fill in the blanks using pages 530-534 in the NC text.

Name of
Alliance / N.A.T.O. (North Atlantic
Treaty Organization)
Type of
Government / Communist
Lead Nations / The United States
5 Other Allies
(countries)

Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, and NATO

Watch the Discovery Ed video "Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan" and answer the following questions using a complete sentence and restating the question in your answer.

1. What message was the U.S. sending the Soviet Union by establishing the Truman Doctrine and Marshall plans?

Watch the Discovery Ed video "Berlin Airlift and Formation of NATO" and answer the following questions using a complete sentence and restating the question in your answer.

2. What was the purpose of the Berlin Airlift?

3. What was U.S.S.R.'s response to the formation of N.A.T.O.?

Cold War Conflict

1. Define "containment" p.534 NC.

2. Define "brinksmanship" p.537 NC.

Watch the Discovery Ed video "Start of Korean War" and answer the following questions using complete sentences and restating the question in your answer.

3. Why do you think it was significant that the Cold War finally had its first military challenge?

4. Why didn't the United States attack past the 38th parallel?

Vietnam War

Watch the Discovery Ed video "Vietnam War" and answer the following questions using complete sentences and restating the question in your answer.

1. Why do you think the U.S. got involved with countries that were considered "strategically unimportant"?

2. What were two effects of the "Vietnam Syndrome"?

Use pages 538-547 in your North Carolina Text to complete the following. Please use complete sentences.

3. Define Domino Theory p. 538 NC.

4. Describe three reasons why the Vietnam War became difficult to win p. 540-541 NC.

5. List three "legacies" of the Vietnam War p. 546 NC.

6. List two political effects of the Vietnam War p. 547 NC.

Red Scare, HUAC, and McCarthyism

Watch the Discovery Ed video "Red Scare and HUAC" and answer the following questions using complete sentences and restating the question in your answer.

1. What caused and intensified the fear of the "Red Scare"?

2. What did H.U.A.C. stand for and what was its purpose?

Continued ……..NOTEBOOK TITLE: Red Scare, HUAC, and McCarthyism

Watch the Discovery Ed video "McCarthyism" and answer the following questions using complete sentences and restating the question in your answer.

3. Describe three effects caused by the actions of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Watch the Discovery Ed video "U-2 Incident" and answer the following question using complete sentences and restating the question in your answer.

4. Why did the U-2 incident increase tension between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.?

5. What was "Corona" and what was its significance?

Cold War Cuba

Watch the Discovery Ed video "Bay of Pigs" and answer the following questions by writing a complete sentence that restates the question in your answer.

1. What was the president’s reason for adopting a policy of "flexible response"?

2. Why was the United States concerned about Cuba?

3. Name two ways the U.S. tried to stop communism in Cuba?

Watch the Discovery Ed video "Cuban Missile Crisis" and answer the following questions by writing a complete sentence that restates the question in your answer.

4. Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis called "the gravest confrontation of the Cold War"?

5. What form of figurative language does Khrushev use to describe the tension between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. (pulling on a rope)? What was he trying to say?

6. What did President Kennedy learn from the crisis?

Reagan and Star Wars

Watch the Discovery Ed video "America’s First Astronauts" and answer the following questions using complete sentences and restating the questions in your answer.

1. Describe how the “Space Race” was related to the Cold War.

Watch the Discovery Ed video "Reagan Doctrine and Star Wars" and answer the following questions using complete sentences and restating the questions in your answer.

2. Why was President Reagan's plan to end communism controversial?

3. Describe Reagan's "Star Wars" plan?

The Berlin Wall

Watch the Discovery Ed video "Berlin Wall" and answer the following questions using complete sentences and restating the questions in your answers.

1.Describe the difference between West and East Berlin in 1960 using the graphic organizer below.

West Berlin / East Berlin

2.Who built the Berlin Wall and why?

Watch the Discovery Ed video "End of the Cold War" and answer the following questions using complete sentences and restating the questions in your answers.

3. What happened in Eastern European countries in 1989?

4. Why did it happen?

5. What did it look like?

6. What do you think is the legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev?