Recent US History
We
will finish the Vietnam War this week by completing the Protest Methods and
Arguments Poster for a grade. Cold War Exam Friday-Study Guide below...still due Friday
US History
We will finish
the Korean War this week by completing the History of Korea poster for a grade.
We will continue the Cold War by looking at the Vietnam War. Cold War Exam Friday-Study Guide below...still due Friday
COLD
WAR EXAM
Study
Guide
George Kennan, "The Sources of Soviet Conduct," Foreign Affairs (July 1947)
In these circumstances it is clear that the
main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that
of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive
tendencies... It is clear that the United States cannot expect in the
foreseeable future to enjoy political intimacy with the Soviet regime. It must
continue to regard the Soviet Union as a rival, not a partner, in the political
arena. It must continue to expect that Soviet policies will reflect no abstract
love of peace and stability, no real faith in the possibility of a permanent
happy coexistence of the Socialist and capitalist worlds, but rather a
cautious, persistent pressure toward the disruption and weakening of all rival
influence and rival power.
1. What
country did the Americans have to defeat in the Pacific during World War II?
2. What country did the Americans have to defeat in the
Cold War from 1945-1991?
3. Which policies are advocated in the goals of George
Kennan?
4. In what way did the Marshall Plan implement the goals of
George Kennan?
5. How did containment change United States
foreign policy?
6. What was the main goal of George
Kennan’s Long Telegram?
7. What is the policy of containment?
8. What
committed the United States to a foreign policy based on containment of
communism?
9. What was the greatest setback to the early U.S. policy of
containment (1940s)?
10. What were the goals of the Marshall Plan?
11. How
did the United States respond to the Berlin Blockade in 1948?
12. How was the formation of NATO and
the Warsaw Pact similar?
13. Describe the controversy over leadership in the Korean War.
14. Describe the outcome of the Korean War.
15. In the 1950s and 1960s, what part of the world saw
nationalist movements that were the greatest challenge to U.S. Cold War goals?
16. What crime was the subject of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg trial?
17. Describe John F. Kennedy
18. What was the intended goal of the Bay of Pigs invasion?
19. How did President Kennedy try to keep communism out of
Vietnam?
20. Which Cold War events turned violent in
an effort to contain communism?
21. Describe the dichotomy of President Lyndon Johnson’s
attempts to eliminate poverty while attacking communism abroad.
22. Why did President Johnson escalate the Vietnam War?
23. What was the major North Vietnamese and Viet Cong offensive
launched on the Vietnamese New Year in 1968?
24. During the Vietnam War, how did television influenced
popular opinion of the conflict?
25. Describe Cold War confrontation vs. Cold War coexistence.
26. Why did antiwar protests occur at Kent State University,
becoming one of the largest, most passionate, and violent antiwar protest?
27. Describe the 1973 War Powers Act.
28. Congressional passage of the 1973 War Powers Act to limit
executive authority was in part a response to what?
29. Four deaths resulted after a clash between antiwar student
groups and National Guardsmen at which U.S. College?
30. What were the major reasons for Vietnam Anti-War
protests?
APUSH
We
will discuss the Vietnam War this week. Read Chapters 37-41 in American
Pageant. Vocabulary Quiz Thursday, Cold War Exam Friday
Cold War Vocabulary II
- Alliance of Progress
- Bay of Pigs Invasion
- Credibility Gap
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Fidel Castro
- Flexible Response
- Geneva Conference
- Henry Kissinger
- Ho Chi Minh
- John F. Kennedy
- Lee Harvey Oswald
- Lyndon B. Johnson
- Massive Retaliation
- Missile Gap
- National Security Act
- New Frontier
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Nuclear-test Ban Treaty
- Peace Corps
- Richard M. Nixon
- Robert F. Kennedy
- Robert S. McNamara
- South East Asia Treaty Organization
- Suez Crisis