This document contains summaries of key events and questions from the Cold War era: 1) It outlines the origins of the Cold War following World War 2, including the breakdown of relations between the US and USSR and Soviet expansion into Eastern Europe behind the Iron Curtain. 2) It asks how the USSR gained control of Eastern Europe by 1948 and how the US reacted to Soviet expansionism. 3) It summarizes the Cuban Revolution, the US reaction including the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, and the Cuban Missile Crisis between the US and USSR, including the roles of Khrushchev and Kennedy and the resolution.

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Key Question4: Who was to blame
for the ColdWar?
Why didthe USA-USSRalliance
begintobreakdownin 1945?
The originsof the ColdWar; the 1945 summit
conferencesincluding
the parts playedbyChurchill,Roosevelt,Stalin
and Truman,and the
breakdownof the USA-USSRalliance in1945–6;
Sovietexpansionin
EasternEurope;the IronCurtain;the Truman
Doctrine andthe Marshall
Plan;the BerlinBlockade anditsimmediate
consequences.
How hadthe USSR gainedcontrol of
EasternEurope by 1948?
How didthe USA react to Soviet
expansionism?
Who wasmore to blame forthe
start of the ColdWar, the USA or
the USSR?
Key Question5: Who won the
Cuban Missile Crisis?
How didthe USA react to the Cuban
Revolution?
The Cuban Revolutionandthe USA'sreactionto
it; the Bay of Pigs;the eventsof the Crisis
includingthe rolesof KhrushchevandKennedy;
the resolutionandthe consequencesof the
Crisis.
Why didKhrushchevputmissiles
intoCuba?
Why didKennedyreactashe did?
Who wonthe Cuban Missile Crisis?
Key Question6: Why did the USA
fail in Vietnam?
Why didthe USA getincreasingly
involvedinVietnam?
IncreasingAmericaninvolvementinVietnam
underEisenhower,KennedyandJohnson;the
maineventsof the war and the tacticsusedby
the two sides;reasonsforAmerican
withdrawal.
What were the differentwaysthat
the USA and the Communistsfought
the war?
Whose tactics were the most
effective–the USA’s or the
Communists’?
Why didthe USA withdrawfrom
Vietnam?