READ:
Please read Chapter 23
the United States and the Cold War, Foner
WHAT TO DO:
Next, identify any five of the following using your textbook. Please include at least 3 sentences for each of your answers.
Satellite Nation
Sphere of Influence
Containment
Iron Curtain
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
Chiang Kai‐shek
Mao Zedong
Taiwan
38th parallel
Korean War
Next, choose two of the following and respond. Your answers should be at least five sentences long.
1. What caused tension between the US and USSR during WWII and the early Cold War period?
2. Discuss the conflict at the Potsdam conference?
3. What specific actions did the USSR take in Europe that were opposed by the United States?
4. How were the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan related?
5. Why did Stalin close access to Berlin? How did the Allies get supplies to Berlin?
6. What precipitated renewed civil war in China and what was the outcome?
7. How did Korea become divided into two countries?
8. What did MacArthur’s counterattack at Inchon accomplish?
9. What caused the disagreement between MacArthur and Truman?
