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The Cold War Review Sheet
Terms to Know
1. Sputnik
2. Berlin Wall
3. Domino Theory
4. Truman Doctrine
5. Berlin Airlift
6. NATO
7. Glasnost
8. Vietcong
9. Perestroika
10. Warsaw Pact
11. INF Treaty
12. Brinkmanship
13. “Star Wars”
People to Know
1. George Kennan
2. Syngman Rhee
3. Winston Churchill
4. Kim Il Sung
5. Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini
6. Fidel Castro
7. Mikhail Gorbachev
8. Nikita Khrushchev
9. Boris Yeltsin
10. Joseph Stalin
11. Leonid Brezhnev
Questions to Know
1. What did the region described as being "behind the iron curtain" include?
2. Describe the ways that the US and the Soviet Union “fought”
3. Which two groups fought a civil war in China both before and after World War II?
4. Which European countries could receive aid through the Marshall Plan?
5. What led the Soviets to blockade West Berlin?
6. What event increased U.S. spending on education and technology?
7. Which leader won China's civil war, and what name did he give to the country?
8. What economic system was used to reshape China's economy after the civil war?
9. What was the primary goal for the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan?
10. What countries had communist problems in 1946?
11. How did Brezhnev's leadership of the Soviet Union differ from that of Khrushchev?
12. What tactics were used by the superpowers during the Cold War to influence Third
World nations?