Origins of the Cold War Test Review Sheet

  • American spies for the Soviets (Rosenbergs)
  • Arms Race
  • Asia
  • Berlin Blockade and Airlift
  • Big Three
  • Brinkmanship
  • Capitalism
  • Chinese civil war: the two sides, the leaders, who won/lost, where did the losers go
  • Cold war
  • Communism
  • Containment
  • Duck and Cover
  • Eisenhower/Eisenhower Doctrine
  • Europe
  • Fission vs. fusion
  • Francis Gary Powers/U2
  • George F. Kennan
  • Iron curtain
  • Issues during the cold war in Europe, Asia, Middle East, Central America
  • Khrushchev
  • Korean War: countries involved, Korean capitals, timeline, Yalu River and China, outcome, MacArthur
  • Mao Zedong
  • Marshall Plan: what was it, how much, who got it, what was the aim
  • McCarthy: HUAC, blacklists, Hollywood Ten, Loyalty Review Board
  • NATO
  • Proxy war
  • Soviet actions in Hungary 
  • Sputnik 
  • Stalin
  • Suez Canal crisis
  • The Middle East
  • Truman
  • Truman Doctrine
  • United Nations: formation, aims, organization (Security Council vs. General Assembly)
  • Warsaw Pact 
  • What do USSR/NATO/UN stand for?
  • Yalta