Use the lnk to answer all the questions about the events of the Cold War before the Cuban Missile Crisis. Please write your answers on a piece of binder paper. Due Friday 3/23.
1. What was discussed at Yalta in 1945?
2. What was founded in San Francisco in 1945?
3. What was discussed at Potsdam in 1945?
4. What is the 'Iron Curtain'?
5.What is the Truman Doctrine?
6. What is the Marshall Plan?
7. What was the Berlin Blockade?
8. What was the Berlin Airlift?
9. What orginization was formed on April 4, 1949?
10. What happened on August 29, 1949 that caused concern in America?
11. What two countries formed an alliance in December of 1949?
12. What happened on June 25, 1950 and what was the American response?
13. What did the U.S. successfully test on November 1, 1952?
14. Who took over the Soviet Communist Party in September of 1953?
15. What is the 'Domino Theory'?
16. What did Chinese leader Mao Zedong decide in 1955?
17. What happened on October 4, 1957?
18. What did the Soviets do to stop a revolt in Hungary on November 4, 1956?
19. What is NORAD and why was it formed (see May 12, 1958)?
20. What do you think about the Cold War? Do you think it was really necessary for America and the USSR to try and influence the politics of other countries around the world?