HONOURS MODERN
HISTORY
Test 7: The Cold War
Study Guide
What are these, and why are these things significant?
1.the Potsdam conference and the division of Germany and Berlin
2.the Berlin airlift
3.the Iron Curtain
4.the United Nations (General Assembly, Security Council, Secretary General)
5.George Marshall and the Marshall Plan
6.NATO
7.the Warsaw Pact
8.Harry Truman and the Truman Doctrine
9.containment and the domino theory
10. the arms race and the Balance of Terror
11. Nikita Khrushchev
12. the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China
13. the Soviet Sphere
14. the Sino-Soviet Split (and who sided with whom)
15. Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (Mao Zedong)
16. Josip Broz Tito
17. Yugoslavia during the Cold War
18. nonalignment
19. the Third World
20. the Berlin uprising of 1953
21. Polish protests in 1956 and Polish October
22. Nagy Imre, the 'Butcher of Budapest,' and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
23. the Berlin Wall
24. John F. Kennedy's speech: 'Ich bin ein Berliner'
25. the U-2 incident
26. Fulgencia Batista
27. Fidel Castro and Che Guevara
28. the Cuban Revolution
29. the Bay of Pigs Invasion
30. the Cuban Missile Crisis
31. ICBMs
32. Sputnik, Laika, and Explorer
33. the Space Race
34. Gagarin, Shepard, Glenn, and Armstrong
35. Leonid Brezhnev and the Brezhnev Doctrine
36. Alexander Dubček, socialism with a human face, and the Prague Spring
37. Joseph McCarthy, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and the Red Scare
38. the Dalai Lama and Tibet
39. the Great Leap Forward
40. the Cultural Revolution
41. Deng Xiaoping
42. Kim Il Sung
43. Syngman Rhee
44. the 38th Parallel
45. the Korean War
46. the Pusan Perimeter
47. Douglas MacArthur
48. Inchon
49. the Yalu River
50. Panmunjon
51. the Demilitarized Zone
52. the 17th Parallel
53. Ho Chi Minh
54. Viet Minh and Viet Cong
55. Dien Bien Phu
56. Ngo Dinh Diem
57. RVN and ARVN
58. protests against Ngo Dinh Diem
59. the Tonkin Gulf Resolution
60. Agent Orange
61. the Tet Offensive
62. Vietnamization
63. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
64. the boat people
65. Indian and Pakistani independence
66. Jawaharlal Nehru
67. the Kashmir Wars
68. Indira Ghandi
69. Sikhs
70. Punjab
71. Bangladesh
72. Sri Lankha
73. Burma (Myanmar)
74. Philippine independence
75. Ferdinand Marcos
76. Benigno and Carazon Aquino
77. Indonesian independence
78. Sukarno and Suharto
79. East Timor
80. the Algerian War of Independence
81. Charles De Gaulle and the Fifth Republic
82. the Suez Crisis
83. the Mau Mau Uprising
84. Jomo Kenyatta and Kenyan Independence
85. Northern Rhodesia and Zambia
86. Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe
87. Portugal and the Carnation Revolution
88. Angola and Mozambique
89. South Africa and apartheid
90. Pope John XXIII, Pope Paul VI, and Vatican II
91. Margaret Thatcher
92. the Falkland Islands War
93. Quebec independence
94. Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand independence
95. Hong Kong
*Be prepared to identify European members of NATO and the Warsaw Pact (during the 1950s) on a map.
*Be prepared to discuss the Marshall Plan.
*Be prepared to evaluate America's military actions during the Cold War.
*Be prepared to describe France's role in the post-war world.
*Be prepared to describe the end of European imperialism.