The Cold War=Exam Review
1.
Why did the United States and the Soviet Union have a strong but uneasy
alliance during WWII?
2.
Identify the Big Three that attended the Yalta conferences and the
countries they represented.
3.
Identify the three part agreement made at the Potsdam Conference. Did Stalin hold up his end of the Potsdam agreement?
4.
What proved to be the significance of the Potsdam Conference?
5.
Who made the Iron Curtain Speech?
What was his warning to the United States in this speech?
6.
Define the containment theory and identify who developed this theory.
7.
If the containment theory was applied, what was predicted would happen
to the Soviet Union?
8.
What official US foreign policy embodied the containment theory?
9.
When was this foreign policy first applied by the United States and
why?
10.
Identify the foreign policy plan implemented by the United States to
keep Europe free from communism.
11.
To what countries was this plan offered to?
12.
Which countries chose to participate and which did not?
13.
What American economic incentives did the US place on this plan?
14.
Which country cut access to West Berlin from West Germany?
15.
Identify Truman's three options and the one he chose to use.
16.
How long did the airlift proceed?
17.
What does the FCDA stand for and what was its role during the cold war?
18.
What was Sputnik?
19.
Explain how he attitude towards communism in America changed during the
1930s.
20.
Which president helped to start the Red Scare of the 1950s by scaring
the "hell" out of the nation to give him aid to Europe?
21.
Which man most symbolizes the Red Scare in the United States? What was his profession and what tactics did
he often use?
22.
What forum did the above man use to hunt down communists?
23.
What led to the eventual downfall of the above man?
24.
At what parallel was the nation of Korea divided at?
25.
What type of government did North and South Korea have?
26.
Which side started the war with an unprovoked attack?
27.
What president ordered US forces into Korea? What general took them there?
28.
What international organization did the US operate through during the
Korean War?
29.
Identify China's form of government and ruler during the Korean War.
30.
What South Korean city did US forces originally land in and set up a
defensive perimeter?
31.
What South Korean city did US forces launch a surprise landing?
32.
What type of military maneuver did MacArthur use to defeat the North
Koreans in South Korea?
33.
How did Truman redefine America's objectives in Korea?
34.
What warning did the Chinese offer to the US?
35.
Did MacArthur take this warning seriously? How do you know this?
36.
What happened to US forces after China entered the war?
37.
How did MacArthur and Truman's views differ on what to do next?
38.
Why did Truman eventually have to fire General MacArthur?
39.
How did the firing of MacArthur impact Truman and his popularity?
40.
Who won the presidential election of 1952 by promising to go to Korea
to evaluate the situation?
41.
What threat the US issue towards China to help win the war? Whose death helped to bring the war to an
end?
42. Why Cold war Ended peacefull?
43. Is the end of cold the end of Communism or victory of western democracy over communism?
44. What consequences faced by poor countries because of this threat of cold war?
45. After the cold is the world still divided into two poles?
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