Period 8 The Cold War 1945 -1990 Chapters

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 • • • 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 2 nd Red Scare/Joe Mc. Carthy 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 • • 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 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