Characteristics of the Cold War
Part 1: Containment |
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Table of Contents
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Part 2: Arms Race
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"...In other words, the goal of American foreign policy – according to Kennan – should be to contain the communist threat, to keep it from growing to other parts of the world..."
Key Terms - Part 1: Containment
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Key Terms - Part 2: Arms Race
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Guided Viewing Questions
Part 1: Containment
Part 2: Arms Race
Part 1: Containment
- What was the Cold War? What were the origins of the Cold War?
- What events in the late 1940s especially increased tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union?
- What was the policy of containment? How did it contribute to the Cold War?
- How did the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan fit into the policy of containment?
- What did the city of Berlin plan in Cold War (be sure to consider the Yalta Conference's division of the city, the Berlin Blockade, and the Berlin Airlift in your answer for now. Later you will need to add the Berlin Wall)
- In what ways did the Berlin Airlift become a symbol of the policy of containment?
Part 2: Arms Race
- How did the Cold War create an arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union?
- What sorts of new concepts and strategies came about in the early Cold War because both sides had nuclear weapons?
- What was Nixon’s approach to the Cold War?
- What was the nuclear triad? How did it contribute to the politics of deterrence, or MAD in the Cold War?
- What are examples of “proxy wars” that took place during the Cold War?