Create a word processing document titled “Cold War.” Copy the following questions to your document and answer in complete paragraphs (5 to 7 sentences).
Be sure your answers are in your own words and not just copied from the reading.
- Explain the term “iron curtain.”
- What is the policy of containment?
- How were the Cold War rivalries demonstrated in Asia, particularly in Korea, Vietnam, and China?
- Why did a Communist regime in Cuba pose a threat for the United States?
- Why did the U.S. go to war in Korea? What was the outcome?
- Explain the domino theory.
- What is the policy of Detente?
- Explain the role of the Bay of Pigs in the Cold War.
- Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan? What was the outcome?
- Explain the programs “Great Leap Forward” and “Cultural Revolution.”
- Who is Mikhail Gorbachev and what did he do for the Soviet Union?
- Who is Ronald Regan and what was his role in the Cold War?
- Explain the Soviet reforms of Democratization, Glasnost, and Perestroika.