WHII 13A: Beginning of the Cold War (1945-1948)

• The Yalta Conference and the Soviet control of Eastern Europe.

• Rivalry between the United States and the U.S.S.R.

• Democracy and the free enterprise system vs. dictatorship and communism.

• President Truman and the Policy of Containment

• Eastern Europe: Soviet satellite nations, the Iron Curtain

WHII 13A: Characteristics of the Cold War (1948-1989)

• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) vs Warsaw Pact

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Berlin and Significance of Berlin Wall

• Cuban Missile Crisis

• Nuclear weapons and the theory of deterrence.

WHII 13B: Collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

• Soviet economic collapse

• Nationalism in Warsaw Pact countries

• Tearing down of Berlin Wall

• Breakup of the Soviet Union

• Expansion of NATO

WHII 13C: Terms to know:

• Containment: A policy for preventing the expansion of Communism.

Conflicts and Revolutionary Movement in China:

• Division of China into two nations at the end of the Chinese civil war.

• Chiang Kai-shek (Jaing Jieshi): Nationalist China (Island of Taiwan)

• Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong): Communist China (Mainland China)

• Continuing conflict between the two Chinas.

• Communist China's participation in Korean War.

Conflicts and Revolutionary Movement in Vietnam:

• Role of French Imperialism

• Leadership of Ho Chi Minh

• Vietnam as a divided nation

• Influence of policy of containment

• The United States and the Vietnam War

• Vietnam as a reunited communist country today.

WHII 13D: Indira Gandhi

• Closer relationship between India and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

• Developed nuclear program

WHII 13D: Margaret Thatcher

• British Prime Minister

• Free trade and less government regulation of business

• Close relationship with United States and U.S. Foreign policy.

• Assertion of United Kingdom's military power.

WHII 13D: Mikhail Gorbachev

• Glastnost & Perestroika

• Fall of the Berlin Wall

• Last President of the Soviet Union

WHII 13D: Deng Xiaoping

• Reformed Communist China's economy to a market economy leading to rapid economic growth.

• Continued communist control of government.