Download cold war intro project 2012

Cold War Notes
You will need to use the PowerPoint you have been given to take notes on
the following topics. You will want to assess the notes in the PowerPoint
and determine what the most important factors are. You will be
supplementing with information from several other sources. When
determining how or if these incidents raised tensions in the cold war assess
the actions from both sides. How would the Americans feel and respond?
And how would the Soviets feel and respond? What were the results of any
actions taken?
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine/Marshall plan
China & Decolonization
McCarthyism
Korean War
The Bomb
Sputnik
Bay of Pigs
The Berlin Wall
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam
Détente
Afghanistan
Gorbachev
Wall Comes Down
Fall of the Soviet Union
We will be checking on your notes and the information that you have
gathered. It should take 1 1/2 classes to finish these.
The Cold War
Event
Iron Curtain
Truman
Doctrine/
Marshall plan
Resource research project
Definition
Why did this raise tensions?
Event
China &
Decolonization
McCarthyism
Definition
Why Did this raise tensions?
Event
Korean War
The Bomb
Definition
Why Did this raise tensions?
Event
Sputnik
Bay of Pigs
Definition
Why Did this raise tensions?
Event
The Berlin
Wall
The Cuban
Missle Crisis
Definition
Why Did this raise tensions?
Event
Definition
Vietnam
Détente
Why Did this raise tensions?
Event
Afghanistan
Gorbachev
Definition
Why Did this raise tensions?
Event
Wall Comes
Down
Fall of the
Soviet Union
Definition
Why Did this raise tensions?