Cold+War+Study+Guide

COLD WAR QUIZ GUIDE


 * The last quiz of the year, my young historians - a very quick one on the early year of the Cold War. The quiz will be online, but NOT open note open book. It will only cover the topics below concerning the Cold War, and won't be worth a ton. If you review the material we covered this week and use this as a checklist, you should be just fine.**
 * The Cold War and Cold War characteristics
 * Yalta Conference
 * Containment
 * The Truman Doctrine
 * The Marshall Plan
 * The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
 * NATO and the Warsaw Pact
 * The Red Scare and HUAC
 * Communism in China
 * McCarthyism
 * The Korean War - causes, basic flow of the war, impact
 * Life in the 50s - fear of communism, booming economy, new products, the Space Race, the growth of suburbs, baby boom, television
 * JFK and Cuba - Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis (if you missed Friday's class, [|check out this overview.]


 * The quiz will be mostly objective and should take about 10 minutes ... then it's on to our final topic of the year!**