Chapter 26: Cold War Begins Questions
Section 1
1. What 3 issues were discussed at Yalta?
2. At Yalta, what agreement did the Big 3 come to about Germany’s future?
3. Define Cold War.
4. What was agreed to at the Potsdam Conference?
5. Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia became Soviet satellite states, what does it mean to be a satellite state?
6. What did the Iron Curtain separate?
7. What is containment?
8. List 2 programs/actions that showed the US using containment?
9. Why did we give aid to Greece and Turkey in the Truman Doctrine?
10. What was the goal of the Marshall Plan?
11. What caused Stalin to blockade West Berlin?
12. What was the response to the Berlin Blockade?
13. What is NATO?
14. What was the Soviet military alliance called?
Section 2
15. Who won the Chinese Revolution?
16. Who had the US been supporting during the Chinese Revolution?
17. What started the Korean War?
18. What did General MacArthur recommend doing when China entered the war?
19. Why was General MacArthur fired?
20. What was the end result of the Korean War and how many American lives were lost?
Section 3
What was the Loyalty Review Program?
What was the goal of the HUAC?
What happened to the Hollywood Ten or anyone who refused to cooperate with the HUAC investigation of Hollywood?
What had Alger Hiss been accused of? What was he convicted of?
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
What was the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947?
What 2 incidents intensified the Red Scare in 1949?
What did Senator McCarthy claim to know?
How did McCarthy turn the investigation into a witch-hunt?
What is McCarthyism?
What brought McCarthy’s downfall?
Section 4
What is massive retaliation?
What is brinkmanship?
How did Eisenhower get negotiators to sign an armistice to end the Korean War?
How did Eisenhower prevent Communist uprisings?
List and explain 2 covert operations that achieved US objectives.
Explain one covert operation that did not work.
Explain the U-2 spy incident.
What was the goal of the Eisenhower Doctrine?