Unit Six > Chapter 35
Howarth Ch. 35 Basic Knowledge Guide
1. What military advantage did the USA possess over all other nations in 1945?
2. Why had Americans good reason to fear international Communism by 1947?
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3. Why was this view inaccurate?
4. What did the USA set up to defend itself?
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5. Explain the "Domino Theory".
6. What was the Truman Doctrine?
7. In which country was it first applied?
8. Describe briefly the Marshall Plan.
9. Why did the Soviet Bloc reject the Marshall Plan?
10. Why did Congress change its mind and vote the money for the Marshall Plan, having at first refused?
11. What organization was set up to administer the Marshall Plan?
12. When were the western zones of Germany included in the above organization?
13. What act by the West proviked the Soviets into blockading West Berlin?
14. What id the West do in response to the blockade of West Berlin?
15. How successful was this operation?
16. What organization was set up in 1949 to deal with similar emergencies in the future?
17. What caused Congress to change its mind and fund this organization, having at first been reluctant to do so?
18. When did China (or almost all of it) go Communist?
19. Who was the principal leader of the anti-Communist witch-hunt in the USA?
20. Which part of China did the USA recognize as the proper representative in the United Nations?
21. What did the Soviet ambassador to the UN do in response?
22. Name the rulers of North and South Korea at this time.
23. What happened on 25th June 1950 in Korea?
24. What did the UN do in response to this action?
25. Who was the UN commander in Korea?
26. What did the US propose to do in Europe as a result of the new tension between the superpowers?
27. How did the UN forces manage to drive the North Koreans from the South?
28. Having done that, what did MacArthur propose to do next?
29. What did China do in response to that?
30. Why did Truman fire MacArthur?
31. MacArthur said, "There is no substitute for victory." What policy did Truman substitute for victory?
32. Name the incoming US president, his vice-president and his secretary of state in 1952.
33. When was the Federal Republic of West Germany set up?
34. Who was its first chancellor?
35. When was West Germany rearmed and admitted to NATO?
36. What arrangement was reached regarding Vietnam at the Geneva Conference of 1954?
37. What alliance, "a kind of Asian NATO", was set up in response?
38. The ANZUS Pact involved which 3 nations?
39. What role did the US see for Japan?
40. To which Middle East country did the USSR offer aid in 1953?
41. What was the US response to that?
42. Who came to power in Egypt in 1954?
43. What declining power was being forced out of vital areas in the Middle East?
44. What did the US government form in 1955 in an attempt to prevent this process?
Books:
Bird, K. and ? American Prometheus A biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb. Excellent on the whole Manhattan Project, and on the vicious persecution he suffered during the McCarthy period.
Links:
Cold War revision site. Useful diagram and match-up activities.
Another Cold War revision site from John Clare.
A good BBC overview of the Korean War from a British perspective.
An excellent document study of who started the Cold War.
John Clare's overview of the historiography of the Cold War, and theories about why it started.
Active History's new page on the roots of the Cold War.
A cartoon analysis exercise on the origins of the Cold War