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Name ______________________________________ Class_____________ Post WWII and the beginning of the Cold War Ch. 27, Sec. 1 Use pages 844 - 848 in your textbook to answer the questions below. 1. Who attended the Yalta Conference and which country was each leader from? ________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What was discussed at the Yalta Conference? __________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Who attended the Potsdam Conference and which country was each leader from? _____________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ 4. What was discussed at the Potsdam Conference? ______________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ The United Nations a. What year did the first UN meeting take place? _________________________________________________ b. What was the purpose of the UN? __________________________ ________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________ c. Who was the President of the U.S. at this time? _________________________________________________ d. Who was appointed to be one of the first U.S. delegates to the U.N.?__________________________________________________ e. One of the first actions of the UN was to divide ___________________________________ into two separate ________________________________________ and ___________________________________ states. f. This lead to the formation of which country on May 14th, 1948? ____________________________________ The Iron Curtain a. Explain what satellite countries are? _________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ b. Why do you think they are referred to as “satellite” countries? _____________________________________ c. Who was the first person to coin the term Iron Curtain? __________________________________________ d. How did he say it? What was he referring to, or describing? _______________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ e. What does the phrase The Cold War mean? ____________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ U.S. Cold War Policies - Explain the following U.S. Cold War policies in complete sentences. a. Containment - ___________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ b. The Truman Doctrine- ___________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ c. The Marshall Plan - ______________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ NATO a. Explain what NATO is. __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ _________________________ b. What was NATO’s purpose? __________________________ __________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ c. What was the Soviet Union’s response to NATO? _______________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ Name ______________________________________ Class_____________ The Cold War and the 1950s Ch. 27, Sec. 2 DIRECTIONS: Read Chapter 27, Section 2, on pages 852-857 and answer the following questions. The Korean War a. Who founded the The People’s Republic of China? __________________________ In what year? _________ b. What kind of government did he run in China? ___________________________________________. c. After he took over, Americans feared that ___________________________________________________. d. Which “line” divided Korea north and south? _________________________ e. Who occupied the northern portion of Korea? ____________________________________ f. Who occupied the southern portion of Korea? _____________________________________ g. Explain what prompted the U.S. to get involved in the Korean War? ______________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________ h. Who was the U.S. President from at this time? ________________________________________________ j. He was President from (years) ____________________ to ___________________ e. Who was the U.S. General who lead all U.N. forces during the Korean War? ________________________ f. He led U.S. troops in which other wars? ______________________________________________________ g. What finally happened on July 27th, 1953? ____________________________________________________ h. Who won the Korean War? ________________________________________________________________ i. Again, what line continued to divide North & South Korea? ______________________________________ j. How many Americans were killed in the Korean War? __________________________________________ The New Red Scare a. In a complete sentence, explain what the Red Scare was? You may have to look it up online or in your index or online. ________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ b. What is the HUAC? _______________________________________________________________________ c. In 1947 the HUAC launched a series of hearings to investigate what? _______________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ d. Joe McCarthy was a ______________________________ from Wisconsin who felt that ______________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ e. Define the term McCarthyism. ______________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ f. Who was the President of the U.S. in the 1950s? _________________________________________________ g. What was his nickname? Do you remember? _______________________________________________ h. What was a Hydrogen Bomb. _______________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ i. Define the term Arms Race. ____________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ j. Explain what a bomb shelter was and why people suddenly began building them. ______________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ h. Define the term Sputnik. ____________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ Use pages 896 - 897 in your textbook or GOOGLE to answer the questions below. The Space Race a. Explain what the Space Race and the race to the Moon was. ______________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ b. Which President pledged that we go to the moon by the end of the 1960s? ____________________________ c. Who was the first man to travel into space and what country was he from? ____________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________ d. Who was the 1st American to travel into space? _________________________________________________ e. Who was the 1st American to orbit the earth? ___________________________________________________ f. What was the date of the first moon landing? _______________________________________ g. Who were the American astronauts to be the first to walk on the moon? ______________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ STOP!!!! ****************************************************** g. Eleanor Roosevelt: Who was this, already famous, person? In a brief paragraph, explain why she was/is she so important? pg.851 __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ No matter how hard you work everyone gets a ‘B’. Agree or Disagree?