Chapter 31 Guided Reading
“The Cold War and Decolonization, 1945 – 1975”
Terms:
1. “Iron Curtain”
2. Marshall Plan
3. Truman Doctrine
4. “Military-industrial complex”
5. Helsinki Accords
6. Sputnik
7. Decolonization
8. Apartheid
9. “Homelands”
10. Nonaligned nations
11. The Third World
12. Great Leap Forward
13. Cultural Revolution
Individuals / Peoples:
14. Dwight D. Eisenhower
15. John F. Kennedy
16. Ngo Dinh Diem
17. Lyndon B. Johnson
18. Nikita Khrushchev
19. Ho Chi Minh
20. Kwame Nkrumah
21. Jomo Kenyatta
22. Nelson Mandela
23. Fidel Castro
24. Che Guevara
Important Places:
25. Jammu and Kashmir
26. Bangladesh
Wars/Conflicts:
27. The Cold War
28. The Korean War
29. The Vietnam War
30. Cuban Missile Crisis
31. Battle of Dienbeinphu
32. Bay of Pigs Invasion
Organizations/Alliances:
33. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
34. United Nations (UN)
35. International Monetary Fund (IMF)
36. World Bank
37. Organization of European Economic Cooperation (OEEC)
38. European Economic Community (Common Market)
39. European Community (EC)
40. Warsaw Pact
41. African National Conference (ANC)
42. Organization of Oil Exporting Countries (OPEC)
Answer the following questions.
1. Explain the roles of UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly.
2. What five members of the UN have veto power in the Security Council?
3. How did post-WWII prosperity change European society? List at least five things.
4. List three examples of Cold War crises.
5. Outline the development in timeline form of the Vietnam Conflict from 1954 to 1973.
6. What were the effects of the Vietnam War on the USA and the World?
7. Create a timeline for Algeria’s struggle for independence.
8. List five problems that the new African nations faced after independence.
9. Describe the ways that the United States dominated Cuba until 1960.
10. What were the results of the 1967 Six-Day War between Israel and her Arab neighbors?