Cold War

 

2 pages – Double spaced summary                                  Read Ch. 30

Relate to effects on Europe                                              pages 1071-1113

People (1945-1991)

Oral presentation

Due 4/22

 

                        Topics                                                                         People                         Manhattan Project                                                        Robert Oppenheimer   

            the Red Scare                                                               Harry Truman

            Marshall Plan / Berlin Airlift                                           Winston Churchill

            The Space Race                                                           Senator Joseph McCarthy

            NATO / Warsaw Pact                                                  Richard Nixon

            Korean War                                                                 General George Marshall

            Missile Crisis                                                                Josef Stalin

            Truman Doctrine                                                           Nikita Khrushchev

            Brezhnev Doctrine                                                        Fidel Castro

            Vietnam War / Conflict                                     Leonid Brezhnev

            Arms Race                                                                   Mao Zedong

            Star Wars / SDI                                                           Ho Chi Minh

            Yalta Conference                                                          Dwight D. Eisenhower

            Potsdam Conference                                                    Lyndon B. Johnson

            Iron Curtain                                                                  John F. Kennedy

            Atomic Energy Commission                                          Jimmy Carter

            Brussels Pact                                                                Gerald Ford

            Kitchen Debate                                                            Ronald Reagan

U-2 Affair                                                                    Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev

            Berlin Wall                                                      

            SALT I & II Treaty

            Helsinki Accords

Regimes of Andropov & Chernenko

"perestroika" & "glasnost"