UNIT 9 STUDY GUIDE: THE COLD WAR
All of the following concepts, events, and terms will be on your unit 9 exam (Friday March 13th). This is not a required assignment, but will help guide your studies. The more details you know about each concept, the better you will do!
1. Cold War vs. Hot War
2. Causes of the Cold War
3. United Nations
a. Purpose and Creation
b. Division of powers
4. Yalta Conference
a. “Big Three”
b. Decisions made (promises broke)
5. Soviet Satellite States
6. Iron Curtain
7. Containment Policy
8. Truman Doctrine
9. George Marshall
10. Marshall Plan
11. NATO
12. Warsaw Pact
13. Division of Germany during the Cold War
14. Berlin Wall
a. Creation & Purpose
b. Destruction
15. Berlin Airlift
a. Causes
b. Outcome
16. Arms Race
a. Soviet vs. American program
b. Hydrogen Bomb
c. ICBM’s
d. Mutually Assured Destruction
e. S.A.L.T.
f. Limited Test Ban Treaty
17. Space Race
a. Sputnik
b. Creation and Purpose of NASA
c. Achievements of the USSR and US
18. Cuban Missile Crisis
19. Bay of Pigs Invasion
20. Chinese Communist Revolution
a. Kuomintang vs. Chinese Communist Party
b. Long March
c. Outcome & Mao Zedong
21. Cuban Revolution
a. Batista vs. Castro
b. Soviet/US involvement
c. Outcome
22. Korean War
a. Two sides
b. Beginning and Inchon Invasion
c. Outcome
23. Vietnam War
a. Two sides
b. U.S. Involvement
c. Outcome
24. Fall of the Soviet Union