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Social Studies
Study Guide:
The Cold War, Part 1

Completely answer the following:

1.      How did the Manhattan Project begin and what was its purpose?

2.      How and where was the atomic bomb first tested?

3.      Where were the two atomic bombs dropped in Japan and why?

4.      What position was the United States in at the end of WWII compared to other countries?

5.      How did the “big 3” nations agree to administer the countries they liberated from Germany?

6.      What did the Soviet Union do to eastern European countries they liberated?

7.      What did Truman do to prevent communist takeover of Greece and Turkey?

8.      Describe the purpose and effect of the Marshall Plan in Europe.

9.      What was the cause and effect of the Berlin blockade?

10.  Why was NATO created, and what is its mission?

11.  Explain how Mao Zedong and the communists took control of China.

12.  What were the causes of the Korean War?

13.  How did Truman react to the invasion of South Korea?

14.  What did China do when UN troops neared its border?

15.  How did the Korean war end, and what was its result?

16.  How did both U.S. and Soviet development of the “H-bomb” decrease the threat of war?

17.  Name two other events that increased and two that decreased the threat of war.

18.  Explain two ways ordinary Americans prepared for nuclear war.

19.  Explain what happened to Americans under McCarthyism.

20.  Explain how Cuba came to have a communist government.

21.  What happened at the Bay of Pigs?

22.  Why was the Berlin Wall built and what did it symbolize?

23.  What led Nikita Kruschev and Fidel Castro to place nuclear missiles in Cuba?

24.  How did Kennedy respond when U.S. spy planes identified nuclear missile bases in Cuba?

25.  What did the U.S. and Soviets agree to that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis?