Chapter 17 Study Guide: The Cold War
Answer these questions based on what you have learned in this chapter. You may collaborate with other students and use your textbook, but each student needs to complete his/her own sheet for credit.
1. When Winston Churchill referred to an "Iron Curtain," what was he referring to?
2. What were the "Big Three" countries whose leaders planned for the end of World War II at Yalta and Potsdam?
3. What is the United Nations Security Council?
4. What countries get to be part of the UN Security Council?
5. What was the Truman Doctrine?
6. What was the Warsaw Pact?
7. What country was Chiang Kai-shek from? Why is he famous?
8. What Communist nation sent troops to help North Korea during the Korean War?
9. What was General Douglas MacArthur's role in the Korean War?
10. What was the "Suez Canal Crisis" about?
11. What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?
12. What event caused President Eisenhower to cancel his trip to the Soviet Union in 1960?
13. Why did many Americans in 1959 decide they didn't like Fidel Castro?
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