Study Guide: The Cold War
You will need to know basic facts about all these terms, keep good notes, and pay attention to survive this unit! Also, these are the terms if you want to do the OPTIONAL 55 point project.
Test #1: Date ______
Know the Presidents of the Cold War (a quiz on Monday over Presidents!)
Harry Truman: April 1945-1953
Dwight Eisenhower: 1953-1961
John Kennedy: 1961-November 1963
Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ): 1963-1969
Richard Nixon: 1969-Aug 1974
Gerald Ford: 1974-1977
Jimmy Carter: 1977-1981
Ronald Reagan: 1981-1989
George H. W. Bush: 1989-93
United Nations
Security Council
Yalta Conference
Iron Curtain
“satellite nations”
Containment
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
China’s fall to Communism /Mao/Chaing Kai Shek
Korean War
Vietnam Conflict (reasons for US involvement)
East/West Germany
East/West Berlin
DMZ (demilitarized zone)
“UN Police Action”
Integration of military (Executive Order 9931, which president?)
Douglas MacArthur’s role in Korea War
Hydrogen Bomb/atomic bomb
Eisenhower Doctrine
Changing role of CIA under Eisenhower and Kennedy (National Securities Act)
Nikita Khrushchev
U-2 Incident
Sputnik
Arms race
Space race
National Education Defense Act
N.A.T.O.
Warsaw Pact
"Duck and cover"
Fallout Shelters
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
Hollywood Blacklist
McCarthyism
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Federal Interstate Highway Act
Berlin Wall
Military industrial complex
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs
Fidel Castro
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikael Gorbechav
Détente
Perestroika
glasnost
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Velvet Revolutions
End of the Cold War
Test #2: Date ______
Civil Rights Movement
C.O.R.E./SNCC
Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas (1954)
Thurgood Marshall
Earl Warren
Rosa Parks
Montgomery bus boycotts
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Little Rock School integration
Sit-ins
Freedom Riders
24th amendment
Selma marches
March on Washington
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Malcolm X
Black Power Movement
Stokely Carmichael/Black Panthers
Test #3: Date ______
Vietnam Conflict
Geneva Accords
Ho Chi Mihn
Ngo Diem (who is he/what happens to him)
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Vietcong
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Operation Rolling Thunder
Robert McNamara
General Westmoreland
Problems with draft deferments
Agent Orange/Napalm
Tet Offensive
“search and destroy”
“body counts”
My Lai Incident
Vietnamization
“the Living Room War”
Cambodia/Laos
Kent State
Pentagon Papers
New York Times v. U.S. (1971)
26th Amendment
Paris Peace Accords
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
War Powers Act (1973)
Fall of Saigon, 1975
What we learned from Vietnam (should be the last thing in your notes from Vietnam)
Test #4: Date ______
Kennedy’s assassination/Lee Harvey Oswald
Warren Commission
“New Frontier”
Space race
“Great Society”/War on Poverty
Counterculture/hippies
Haight-Ashbury
Woodstock
Betty Friedan - The Feminine Mystique
National Organization for Women
Women's Liberation
Roe v. Wade (1973)
César Chávez
Clean Air Act/Clean Water Act
Environmental Protection Agency
Watergate
25th Amendment