World History Guided Reading Cold War and Beyond

Define the following vocabulary. (17 pts)

NATO
Warsaw Pact
United Nations
Marshall Plan
Cold War
Truman Doctrine / Containment
Cultural Revolution
Ho Chi Minh
Mao Zedong
Chiang Kai Shek
Domino Theory / Pol Pot
Glasnost
Perestroika
Gorbachev
Margaret Thatcher

II. Short Answer (9 pts)

1. (Page 592) Describe two goals that Stalin had during the Cold War.

2. (Page 594) What was the Berlin Airlift?

3. (Page 595) Describe the genocide in Armenia.

4. (Page 604) Who made the Iron Curtain speech and what does the Iron curtain refer to?

5. (Page 609) What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

6. (Page 627) Why was there a war in Korea and how does it relate to the Cold War?

7. (Page 631) Why was there a war in Vietnam

8. (Page 652) When and how did India become independent?

9. (Page 662 – 663) Why did African countries become independent after WWII?

III. Application (4 pts)

10. (Page 607) List four areas that had Cold War conflicts around the world.

11. (Page 633) What was the Ho Chi Minh Trail?

12. (Page 636) List the republics that became independent after the Soviet Union collapsed.

13. (Page 665) List the independent countries in Africa before 665.