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Unit 7 Test Study Guide: The Cold War

You should be able to define and describe the significance of the following vocab words

· Decolonization

· Containment

· Totalitarianism

· Domino Theory

· Non-Aligned Movement

· Self Determination

· Pan Africanism / Pan African Unity

· Proxy War

· Year of Africa

· Cuban Missile Crisis

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· UN Resolution 82

· Armistice

· NATO

· Warsaw Pact

· Bay of Pigs Invasion

· Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)

· SALT Talks

· Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty

· SALT I Treaty

· SALT II Treaty

· Nicaraguan Revolution

· Mikhail Gorbachev

· Perestroika

· Glasnost

· Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF)

· START Treaty

What is the Cold War? Who was it fought between? What was it fought over?

Why was the Cold war called the “Cold War”?

How was the Cold War connected to decolonization?

What are the 3 main causes of decolonization after WWII?

You should be able to describe what happened during the Korean war including…

How it was related to World War 2

How it was a proxy war

What side the US supported, and what side the USSR supported

What happened during the war

What the results of the war were

You should be able to describe what happened during the Vietnam War including…

How it relates to World War 2

How it was a proxy war

How it relates to the French Indochina war / Anti French Resistance War

What happened at the Geneva Conference

How the US got involved

Some things that happened during the war

What the results of the war were

What was the Bay of Pigs invasion? Include the purpose, who was involved, and what ultimate happened.

What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? When did it happen? What led up to the Cuban Missile Crisis? What was the result/what happened?

How was Pan Africanism / Pan African Unity related to World War 1, World War 2, and decolonization?

What was the Year of Africa? Why was it important?

You should be able to describe the country you were assigned for the Year of Africa World Tour

What was detente? Including...

Why were the US and USSR interested in detente

What happened during that time period / examples of detente

Is the name accurate given what happened in that time period?

Why did detente end?

Why did the Cold War heat up again after 1979, and what happened during this time of increased tension?

Why did detente (part 2) happen, and why was Mikhail Gorbachev such a big part of it? Include Glasnost and Perestroika as part of your answer.

What were some of the results of reforms in the USSR, especially glasnost and perestroika?

What did detente (part 2) look like? What happened in that time period?

You should be ready to answer these questions in a paragraph:

What is decolonization, and how was it connected to the Cold War? What are examples of decolonization during the Cold War?

Why did the Cuban Missile Crisis end, and why did the Soviets withdraw their missiles from Cuba?

What was detente, and is the name accurate given what happened in that time period?

Who won the Cold War, and why?