Weekly Post for March 26th

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

1. Alliance of Progress 
2. Bay of Pigs Invasion 
3. Credibility Gap 
4. Cuban Missile Crisis 
5. Fidel Castro 
6. Flexible Response 
7. Geneva Conference 
8. Henry Kissinger
9. Ho Chi Minh 
10. John F. Kennedy 
11. Lee Harvey Oswald 
12. Lyndon B. Johnson 
13. Massive Retaliation 
14. Missile Gap 
15. National Security Act 
16. New Frontier 
17. Ngo Dinh Diem 
18. Nikita Khrushchev 
19. Nuclear-test Ban Treaty 
20. Peace Corps 
21. Richard M. Nixon 
22. Robert F. Kennedy 
23. Robert S. McNamara 
24. South East Asia Treaty Organization 
25. Suez Crisis