Name:

Date: Chapter 30 Section 1: The Cold War Unfolds

Period:

1) What were the two alliances each superpower formed? What were their primary locations?

2) What was the Iron Curtain? Why was it called that?

3) Why was the Berlin wall built? What did it show to people in Berlin?

4) What was the resistance to Soviet Control? Where was it and what happened? a. b. c. 5) What is meant by balance of terror? What is meant by mutually assured destruction? a.

b.

6) What were some means of limiting nuclear weapons?

7) What was dtente? Who used the strategy and why? When did it end? a. b. c. 8) Look at the map on page 969. What areas of the world had Cold War conflicts? Describe the global scope of the cold war.

9) How did the Cold War become hot? How did the superpowers confront one another?

10) What did Fidel Castro do with Cuba?

11)How did Kennedy react and attempt to deal with Cubas new communist regime? What happened in that event?

12)Who took over after Stalin? How did he shock people within the Communist Party? What did he do different from Stalin and what type of relationship did he desire with the West? a.

b. c. 13)What was the strategy that the United States attempted to employ against communist nations? How would they utilize this?

Page 989: The Korean War 1. Why and how was the Korean Peninsula Divided? How was each division governed and by who?

2. Why did the United States get involved in Korea?

3. Why did China get involved in the Korean War? What was their role and what did they do?

4. How did the Korean War end?

5. Compare and contrast North and South Korea. North Korea South Korea

Section 4: The Vietnam War 1. Why was Vietnam split similar to Korea?

2. What brought the United States into the conflict? How were they initially involved and how did the US involvement escalate?

3. How did Americans feel about the Vietnam War?

4. Why did the United States withdraw?

5. What was the fate of Vietnam?