1. Cold War
1945 to 1991

2. Q. List the following presidents in order from the earliest to the most recent.
a. Kennedy b. Truman
c. Johnson d. Eisenhower

3. Q. Who replaced Joseph Stalin as the Soviet leader?
a. Vladimir Lenin
b. Nikita Khruschev
c. Mikhail Gorbachev
d. Leonid Brezhnev

4. Cold War Policies and Events
Definition and Background
Ideological Differences
Iron Curtain
Berlin Airlift
Truman Doctrine
The Marshall Plan and COMECON
Containment
NATO and Warsaw Pact

5. Cold War Policies and Events
McCarthyism in US
Hungary, 1956
Berlin Wall, 1961
Czechoslovakia, 1968:
Prague Spring
Brezhnev Doctrine

6. Cold War around the world
China goes Red 1949
Revolution led by Mao Zedong
Nationalists (Jiang Jieshi) to Taiwan
Great Leap Forward: goals, results
Cultural Revolution
Chinese get bomb, 1964
Split with Soviets by 1968
UN and US recognition
Mao’s death 1976

7. Korean War 1950-53 Division North Korea attacks
UN resolution, intervention
Chinese intervention
Stalemates, stalled negotiations
54,000 US dead, 2 million Koreans

8. Cold War in Latin America
Many right-wing dictatorships
Attractions to revolution by impoverished masses
Cuba:
Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Missile Crisis

9. What country was at war with Vietnam from 1946 to 1954?
a. France b. China
c. The United States d. Cambodia

10. Vietnam Background French colonial background Japanese in WWII
Ho Chi Minh and Viet Minh fight
Japanese
returning French
US aids Minh vs. Japan, French vs.Minh
French Withdraw

11. Vietnam War Geneva Accord 1954 South Vietnam:
Ngo Dinh Diem is PM
North Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh
Growing Civil war:
In South: NLF/Viet Cong
Ngo’s popularity declines
Coup

12. Vietnam War Growing US involvement in 1960s: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1962: 11,000
1963: 16,000
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Escalation:
1964: 23,000
1965: 200,000
1967: 485,000

13. The defoliant used to clear jungles in Vietnam was called:
a. Purple Haze b. Agent Orange
c. Fallout d. Acid Rain

14. Vietnam War Nature of Guerilla Warfare Tet Offensive 1968: Impacts
My Lai
Recommended Film: Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam

15. Where is Kent State?
a. Illinois b. Florida
c. Maryland d. Ohio

16. Ending the War Vietnamization: Bombing of Cambodia and Invasion
1969: 541,000
1970: 335,000
1972: 24,000
Bombing of Cambodia and Invasion
Kent State
1973: US out
End of War 1975

17. Legacies/Results/Changes/ Impacts of Vietnam War
Deaths and Casualties
Immigration to US
Disillusionment with gov’t, politics
Impact on Foreign Policy
Others?

18. Afghanistan 1978 Communists seized power Soviet Union backs it up
100,000 troops deployed
Mujahadin guerillas fight for
Islam
indep of Afghanistan
US aid for guerillas
Soviets withdraw after 10 years

19. Détente SALT UN Nonproliferation Agreement, 1970
(useful fact sheet, summary)
nuclear test ban agreements