Chapter 33 Section 1:
Two Superpowers Face Off
(pp. 854-61)
- Why were the U.S. and
the U.S.S.R. to pursue opposing goals?
- How did the Yalta
Conference affect Germany?
- Why was the United
Nations (UN) created?
- Why did the Soviet
Union “take over” Eastern Europe?
- Why did Churchill use
the phrase “iron curtain”?
- How did the U.S. plan
to use the policy of containment against the Soviet Union?
- Why did the Truman
Doctrine cause controversy?
- Why did the Berlin
Airlift occur?
- Why did NATO develop?
- Why did the Warsaw Pact
develop?
- Why did the U.S. and
U.S.S.R. compete in an arms race?
- Why did the U-2
incident bring tensions between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. “to a new height”?
Chapter 33 Section 2:
Communists Triumph in China
(pp. 862-5)
- Why were Mao’s troops
more successful than the Nationalists’?
- How were Taiwan and
China different?
- Why did the Tibetans
riot?
- How did Mao reshape
China’s economy?
- How did Mao change
business and industry?
- Why was the Great Leap
Forward a “great leap backward”?
- How did the Cultural
Revolution affect Chinese society?
Chapter 33 Section 3:
War in Korea and Vietnam
(pp. 866-70)
- Why did the Soviet
Union supply North Korea with weapons?
- How did the U.N. respond
to Soviet involvement in North Korea?
- How did the war affect
both North and South Korea?
- How were the domino
theory and the support of Ngo Dinh Diem of Vietnam “related” for the U.S.?
- How was
“Vietnamization” tied to the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam?
- How did Pol Pot and the
Khmer Rouge affect Cambodia?
- How did communism
affect Vietnamese society?
Chapter 33 Section 4:
Cold War Around the World
(pp. 871-5)
- Why does the Third
World often experience poverty and political instability?
- Why did some Third World
countries prefer to be nonaligned nations?
- Why did President
Eisenhower order an embargo on all trade with Cuba?
- How did the Cuban
Missile Crisis affect U.S./U.S.S.R. relations?
- How was Nicaragua
involved in the Cold War?
- Describe life in Iran
under the Shah.
- Why did Ayatollah
Khomeini’s followers seize the American Embassy in Tehran?
- Why didn’t Iran and
Iraq get along?
- Why is Afghanistan
considered “the Soviet Union’s Vietnam”?
- Why did the U.S. supply
the Afghan rebels with weapons?
Chapter 33 Section 5:
The Cold War Thaws (pp.
876-9)
- How did destalinization
change the Soviet Union?
- Why was Imre Nagy
executed by the Soviets?
- Why did the Soviet
Union invade Czechoslovakia?
- How are realpolitik and
détente related?
- Why was the SALT I
Treaty important?
- Why was the SALT II
Treaty never ratified?
- Why did détente “cool”?
- How was the SDI
supposed to protect the U.S.?
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