2nd semester Day 7-9 - The Cold War Era

Homework Questions for Wednesday 7/15, Thursday 7/16 and Monday 7/20. This homework is due at the beginning of school on Tuesday 7/21.

Vocabulary Map Vocab:
Superpowers
Anti-ballistic Missiles
Ronald Regan
De'tente
Fidel Castro
John F. Kennedy
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Containment
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Mutually Assured Destruction
SALT I
SALT II
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
START Treaty
Afghanistan
Mao Zedong
SEATO
CENTO
Cuban Missile Crisis
Duck and Cover Drills
HUAC
Joseph McCarthy
Red Scare
Marshall Plan
Jiang Jieshi
Chinese Civil War
Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
Kim Il Sung
Syngman Rhee
38th parallel
17th parallel
DMZ
Berlin Airlift
Checkpoint Charlie
Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Dienbienphu
Domino Theory
Pol Pot
Khmer Rouge
Viet Cong
Ngo Dinh Diem
Gulf of Tonkin
Tet Offensive
POW's and MIA's
Paris Peace Accord
Saigon
Vietnamization
Mikhail Gorbachev
Berlin Wall
Glasnost
Perestroika
Lech Walesa
Solidartiy
Hugarian Revolt 1956
Vaclav Havel
Nicolae Ceausescu
Iron Curtain
Capitalism
Communism
Douglas MacArthur
Brinkmanship
Truman Doctrine
Yalta Conference
U-2 Conference
Red Guards
Reading Questions:
1. What was the purpose in forming NATO?
2. What was the goal behind the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan?
3. What were the goals behind NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
4. How did Mao Zedong transform China?
5. What was the Goal of the Cultural Revolution?
6. What role did the U.S. play in the Korean War?
7. How did Vietnam become divided?
8. What was the Khmer Rouge's plan for Cambodia?
9. How was the Cuban Missile Crisis resolved?
10. Why did the USSR invade Afghanistan?