This document is a study guide for the Cold War that provides questions about key events, policies, individuals, and conflicts during this period. It covers topics like the establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, crises over Berlin and Cuba, the space race between the US and Soviet Union, the Vietnam War, and the eventual collapse of the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The study guide directs students to review maps of Europe and Asia and asks questions testing their understanding of the military, political, and ideological dimensions of the Cold War global superpower struggle between US-led Western democracies and Soviet-led Eastern Bloc communist states.

1. Cold War Study Guide 26. How was Agent Orange used during the Vietnam
War? What effect did it have on those who came in
contact with it?
1. What is the Cold War? 27. What is My Lai? What happened there?
2. What did George Kennan do? 28. List two ways to avoid being drafted
3. What is the domino effect? 29. What were some characteristics of the
counterculture?
4. Explain the Berlin Blockade
30. What is significant about Apollo 11
5. What are NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
31. National Defense Education Act does what?
6. Who was the leader of the Chinese government?
32. What is the Détente policy
7. Who was the leader of the Communist government
in China? 33. What are three factors that led to the Soviet
Union collapsing?
8. What are three elements of the Loyalty Program?
34. Where did the Soviet Union fight a 9 years war
9. What is the 38th Parallel? that helped contribute to their collapse?
10. What is the 17th Parallel? 35. What were 2 of Regan’s Cold War policies?
11. What 3 Countries made up West Berlin?
12. Who was Joseph McCarthy? What is significant *Study your European and Asian maps!
about him during the Cold War?
13. What role did Douglass MacArthur play during
the Korean War? Why did he get fired as General?
14. Three things included in the Truman Doctrine
15. Three things included in the Marshall Plan
16. Summarize the Bay of Pigs
17. Summarize the Cuban Missile Crisis
18. Summarize Cuban Revolution Cold War Study Guide
19. Two things Khrushchev wanted the U.S. to do
before he would remove the missiles in Cuba?
1. What is the Cold War?
20. What is the U.S. response to missiles in Cuba?
2. What did George Kennan do?
21. Why is Robert Kennedy important during the
Cuban Missile Crisis? 3. What is the domino effect?
22. Where is NASA located? 4. Explain the Berlin Blockade
23. What is Sputnik 5. What are NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
24. Who are the Vietcong? Why are they important? 6. Who was the leader of the Chinese government?
25. What are four things that the United States 7. Who was the leader of the Communist government
soldiers experienced on the battlefield in Vietnam? in China?

2. 8. What are three elements of the Loyalty Program? 33. What are three factors that led to the Soviet
Union collapsing?
9. What is the 38th Parallel?
34. Where did the Soviet Union fight a 9 years war
10. What is the 17th Parallel? that helped contribute to their collapse?
11. What 3 Countries made up West Berlin? 35. What were 2 of Regan’s Cold War policies?
12. Who was Joseph McCarthy? What is significant
about him during the Cold War?
*Study your European and Asian maps!
13. What role did Douglass MacArthur play during
the Korean War? Why did he get fired as General?
14. Three things included in the Truman Doctrine
15. Three things included in the Marshall Plan
16. Summarize the Bay of Pigs
17. Summarize the Cuban Missile Crisis
18. Summarize Cuban Revolution
19. Two things Khrushchev wanted the U.S. to do
before he would remove the missiles in Cuba?
20. What is the U.S. response to missiles in Cuba?
21. Why is Robert Kennedy important during the
Cuban Missile Crisis?
22. Where is NASA located?
23. What is Sputnik
24. Who are the Vietcong? Why are they important?
25. What are four things that the United States
soldiers experienced on the battlefield in Vietnam?
26. How was Agent Orange used during the Vietnam
War? What effect did it have on those who came in
contact with it?
27. What is My Lai? What happened there?
28. List two ways to avoid being drafted
29. What were some characteristics of the
counterculture?
30. What is significant about Apollo 11
31. National Defense Education Act does what?
32. What is the Détente policy