J. Kelly Robison

The Cold War

  1. Origins
    1. Soviet-American Hostilities
    2. Wartime Alliance
    3. Collapse of the Peace
      1. Winston Churchill - "Iron Curtain Speech"
    4. American Cold War Foreign Policy
      1. The Domino Theory
      2. Containment
        1. Truman Doctrine
        2. Marshall Plan
    5. The First Test - Berlin Blockade
  2. The Year of Shocks - 1949
    1. Soviet Nuclear Program
    2. The Fall of China
  3. The Eisenhower Adminstration
    1. John Foster Dulles and Brinksmanship
  4. The Red Scare
    1. HUAC
      1. Alger Hiss Case
      2. The Rosenbergs
    2. McCarthyism
  5. Containment in Practice
    1. Korea
    2. Iran
    3. Guatemala

Study Terms

Yalta Conference Potsdam Conference Marshall Plan Spheres of Influence
Containment Domino Theory Truman Doctrine Berlin Blockade
George Kennan North Atlantic Treaty Organization Warsaw Pact Mao Tse-Tung
Chiang Kai-Shek United Nations HUAC Hollywood 10
the Rosenbergs Alger Hiss Joseph McCarthy Douglas MacArthur
Korea John Foster Dulles Brinkmanship Massive Retaliation

Study Questions:

Discuss the origins, development and end of the Cold War. What led to the Cold War? How did the United States government attempt to deal with communism?

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