Double Quiz Study Guide & New Homework Due Wednesday

Stalin Dies! Khrushchev Takes Over & The Development of the Space Race

Ding Dong! The wicked dictator is dead! March 5, 1953.

First, be sure you have finished The Korean War questions that were due at 3:10 p. today.

Second, please have the next two sets of questions completed by Wednesday at 8:20 a. They are posted to your Cold War Notes document. They are:

Khrushchev, De-Stalinization, and Peaceful Co-Existence

DIRECTIONS: Read "“Khrushchev and Peaceful Co-existence” (Pgs. 88-92). It is in your shared Cold War Readings file. Answer the following 9 questions. 

  

The Space Race

DIRECTIONS: Read "“Khrushchev and Peaceful Co-existence” (Pgs. 93-96). It is about the second test of peaceful co-existence, the Space Race. It is in your shared Cold War Readings file. Answer the following 13 questions.

STUDY GUIDE FOR WEDNESDAY'S DOUBLE QUIZ

• Make sure you know your answers to questions 2, 2a. - 2f. under "U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1950s" on your NOTES.
• Know the difference between "rollback" and "containment."
• Be able to list the "Six Major Events" that caused the U.S. to feel it was losing political and technical race with the Communists in the 1950s. (Question 4 on U.S. Foreign Policy.)
• What is an ICBM?
• Know the formal names of North and South Korean and who led each at the beginning of the Korean War.
• Know - in general terms - how the Korean War unfolded.
• Know why MacArthur was fired by Truman.
• Make sure you understand the 1950-era context of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's quote:  "Asia is where the communist conspirators have decided to make their play for global conquest.   If we lose this war, the fall of Europe is inevitable.   There is no choice but victory."
• How did Stalin's death impact the end of the Korean conflict?
• In a paragraph or two be preapared to address the Cummings' quote: “The civil conflict had not been worked through but frozen by outside intervention.” (Study questions No. 8 and 9 under the Korean War Notes.)
• Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower? How did he approach Communism?
• Who was John Foster Dulles? How did he view the United States’ role against the Communists?

Complete 1950s Foreign Policy Homework by Lunch Monday!

Foreign Policy in the 1950s: 

Fear of Communism's Growth

Oh, great! Now China and North Korea have turned Commie.

Please complete the readings and questions assigned Thursday. The readings are in your shared reading folder. All questions are at the bottom of your Cold War Notes document.

 

Your answers are due no later than Monday at 12:30 p.

Click this link to view Thursday's homework assignment.

NATO and 1950s U.S. Foreign Policy Homework

NATO and U.S. Foreign Policy during the 1950s

NSC-68: A seminal work during the early Cold War

Please complete the following assignment between Thursday and Monday. The readings are in your shared reading folder. All questions are at the bottom of your Cold War Notes document.

Your answers are due no later than Monday at 12:30 p.

ASSIGNMENTS:

Creation of NATO

Step 8: Effect of the Berlin Blockade: Why did the United States join NATO?Read the document, “NATO Created - 1949,” (it’s in the shared reading folder) and answer the following eight questions.
  
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U.S. Foreign Policy in the 1950s

DIRECTIONS: Read the document, 1950s Foreign Policy, and answer the following 12 questions.