Cold War Study Guide

The Cold War Study Guide

Beginnings            

1. Yalta Conference

2. Potsdam Conference

3. The Truman Doctrine

4. The Marshall Plan

5. Comecon

6. Berlin Blockade

7. Operation Vittles

8. Berlin Airlift

9. Policy of Containment of Communism and the USSR

10.George F. Kennan's "Long Telegram" from Moscow

11. Churchill's "Iron Curtain Speech"

12. NATO and the Warsaw Pact

13. Massive Retaliation. John Foster Dulles

14. Communist Takeover in Czechoslovakia

15. McCarthyism.

16. Communist Revolution in China and Chairman Mao

17. The Korean War. Inchon. Communist China's intervention. MacArthur

18. Hungarian Uprising. Imre Nagy

19. Sputnik

20. Cuba: Revolution. Fidel Castro. Che Guevara. Bautista and family pre-revolution. 21. Nationalization of American companies.

22. The U-2 Affair

23. The Paris Summitt

24. The Bay of Pigs

25. The Berlin Wall

26. Kennedy's "I Am A Berliner" Speech

27. The Cuban Missile Crisis

28. Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

29. Prague Spring

30. SALT/Helsinki Accords

31. Nixon in China

32. Détente'

33. Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan

34. Solidarity Movement in Poland Lech Walesa

35. Strategic Defense Initiative

36. Gorbachev. Perostroika. Glasnost

37.INF Treaty

38. Reagan's Berlin Wall Speech

39. The Fall of the Berlin Wall.

40. German Unification

41. The French Vietnam War (Indochina). Ho Chi Minh (biography of) and his Viet Minh's rebellion versus Japanese occupation of Vietnam. Ho's "Declaration of Independence Speech in Hanoi. Letters to President Truman unanswered. French granted rights to continue the colonization of Vietnam. Dien Bien Phu (1954)

42.  The American Vietnam War. Early stages: American Advisors. President Diem and his assassination. Who assassinated Diem and why? Differences between Kennedy's policy and LBJ's Vietnam Policy. Troop buildups 1964-1965. Tet Offensive. Nixon and Vietnamization. Jimmy Carters pardon of American draft evaders.

43. Vietnam: The Anti-War Movement in the United States and its significance. March on Washington. March to the Pentagon

44. Women in America. 1950's

45. Women in America.1960's.

46. The Cold War and Latin America

            Guatemala. 1954. United Fruit. Arbenz.

            Chile. 1973. Salvador Allende. Pinochet.

            Nicaragua. 1980