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Period 8: The Cold
War 1945-1990
Chapters: 35, 36,
37, and 38
Post WWII Europe
• 2 major super powers: ____________
and ________________
• Occupied Europe
• The Iron Curtain
• What is up with communism
• America doe little to help Russia
during and after the war. Why?
• The Problem with THE BOMB.
The Cold War Heats Up
1947-1950
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The Truman Doctrine
Turkey and Greece
The Marshall Plan
NATO
Berlin
The Berlin Airlift
National Security Act
The CIA
Department of Defense
The Warsaw Pact
The Cold War in Asia
• China after
WWII:
Nationalists/Chang
Kai-Shek vs.
Communists/Mao
Tse-tung
• The Korean
War/Webquest
The Cold War in the 50’s
• Truman’s problems
Dixiecrats/the solid south
• Macarthur
• HUAC/The 2nd Red
Scare/Joe McCarthy
Eisenhower and the Cold War
•Dulles: Massive Retaliation
•H-Bomb
•Dien Bien Phu
•The Middle East: Egypt vs.
Israel
The Suez Canal; Lebanon
•The CIA in Iran, Cuba,
Hungary,
Guatemala
•Khrushchev
•Sputnik
•The U-2 Incident
Kennedy and the Cold War
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Flexible response
Berlin
Southeast Asia
CUBAThe Bay of Pigs
Castro
The Cuban
Missile Crisis
• The Space Race
Vietnam
• Intro to Vietnam
Worksheet
• CAUSES
• DOMINO THEORY
• Viet Cong/Sides
• What was it like? How
was it different?
• Tet Offensive
• Mai Lai Massacre
• Nixon/Cambodia
• Operation Rolling
Thunder
• Outcomes/Effects
The Cold War in the 1970’s
• China, Kissinger,
and Nixon
• SALT I
• SALT II
• Nuclear Power
• Pol Pot, Khumer
Rouge
• Central America
• Iran/Middle East
The End of the Cold War
• Ronald
Regan
• Gorbachev
• “Star Wars”
• Perestroika
• Glasnost
• The End of
Commusnism