east and west in the grip of cold war chapter 26 world history: volume ii: since 1500 pgs. 770-797
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East and West in theGrip of Cold War
Chapter 26
World History: Volume II: Since 1500
pgs. 770-797
People, Places, Ideas• Grand Alliance/Allies*• Iron Curtain• Berlin Wall• Harry Truman*• Truman Doctrine• Marshall Plan• containment• denazification• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO)• Warsaw Pact• Mao Zedong• Chinese Civil War• Korean War• Ho Chi Minh• Viet Cong (Vietnamese Communists)
• Vietnam War/Vietnam syndrome• Nikita Khrushchev• peaceful coexistence• Radio Liberty/Free Europe• Nonaligned movement• John F. Kennedy• Cuban Missile Crisis• Richard Nixon• detente• Ronald Reagan• Strategic Defense Initiative/Star
Wars• Mikhail Gorbachev• Contras• perestroika
*denotes review term from previous chapter.
Big Questions
Why were the United States and the Soviet Union suspicious of each other after World War II, and what events between 1945 and 1949 heightened the tensions between the two nations?
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