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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? ________________________
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2. What was discussed at the Yalta Conference? __________________________________________________
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3. Who attended the Potsdam Conference and which country was each leader from? _____________________
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4. What was discussed at the Potsdam Conference? ______________________________________________
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The United Nations
a. What year did the first UN meeting take place?
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b. What was the purpose of the UN? __________________________
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c. Who was the President of the U.S. at this time?
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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
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f. This lead to the formation of which country on May 14th, 1948? ____________________________________
The Iron Curtain
a. Explain what satellite countries are? _________________________________________________________
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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? _______________________________________
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e. What does the phrase The Cold War mean? ____________________________________________________
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U.S. Cold War Policies - Explain the following U.S. Cold War policies in complete sentences.
a. Containment - ___________________________________________________________________________
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b. The Truman Doctrine- ___________________________________________________________________
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c. The Marshall Plan - ______________________________________________________________________
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NATO
a. Explain what NATO is.
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b. What was NATO’s purpose?
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c. What was the Soviet Union’s response to NATO? _______________________________________________
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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? ______________________________
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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. ________________________________________________________________________________
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b. What is the HUAC? _______________________________________________________________________
c. In 1947 the HUAC launched a series of hearings to investigate what? _______________________________
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d. Joe McCarthy was a ______________________________ from Wisconsin who felt that ______________
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e. Define the term McCarthyism. ______________________________________________________________
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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. _______________________________________________________________
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i. Define the term Arms Race. ____________________________________________________________
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j. Explain what a bomb shelter was and why people suddenly began building them. ______________________
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h. Define the term Sputnik. ____________________________________________________________
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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. ______________________________________
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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? ____________________________
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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? ______________________________
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STOP!!!!
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g. Eleanor Roosevelt:
Who was this, already famous, person? In a brief paragraph, explain why she was/is she so important? pg.851
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No matter how hard you work
everyone gets a ‘B’. Agree or Disagree?