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1.  What happened.

During the conference, the three leaders agreed to demand Germany’s unconditional surrender and began plans for a post-war world. Stalin also agreed to permit free elections in Eastern Europe and to enter the Asian war against Japan, for which he was promised the return of lands lost to Japan in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.
2. Who attended.
The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down.

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2. Know about U.S. involvement in the Cold War.

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2. Know about U.S. involvement in the Cold War.

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1.  NATO -   is a military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after World War II to strengthen international ties between member state, especially the United States and Europe and to serve as a counter-balance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact

2.  Truman Doctrine -  the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War.

3.  Marshall Plan -   A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II. It was proposed by the United States secretary of state, General George C. Marshall.

4.  Cuban Missile Crisis -  A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war.

5.  Containment - Containment is a military strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy. It is best known as the Cold War policy of the United States and its allies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. A component of the Cold War, this policy was a response to a series of moves by the Soviet Union to enlarge communist influence in Eastern Europe, China, Korea, Africa, and Vietnam.

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3.  Know about Soviet Involvement in the Cold War. 

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3.  Know about Soviet Involvement in the Cold War. 

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1. Iron Curtain - the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
2. What did Stalin say about free elections after WWII?
Stalin broke his promise of free elections in Eastern Europe and installed governments dominated by the Soviet Union
3. Warsaw Pact -  treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance'.

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1. space race - the competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of space exploration.

2. How did it affect the Soviet Union and America.

It affected them because they would both use technology in space to create weapons so they could be more superior, with those weapons.  they would go to war that is why it affected both of them.
The Soviet Union was the first nation to ever create a true space program.

Political Impact : people began to think differently of their government and system since they were very successful.

The Space Race  brought popular support for the space program and a newfound patriotism after the horrors of WWll.

The Space Race  also brought popular support for the space program and a newfound patriotism after the horrors of WWll to the U.S.  It was also beneficial to the United States government because it removed attention from the violent aspect of the Cold War.

1. Who won the space race?

By landing the first man on the moon, the United States effectively “won” the space race.

1. What events were important during the space race?

Launch of Sputnik 1 : Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite

Launch of Sputnik 2 : Less than a month after the successful launch of Sputnik 1, the Soviet space program achieved another major ‘victory’ in the Space Race. On November 3, 1957, the USSR successfully launched the second spacecraft into the Earth’s orbit - Sputnik 2.

Launch of Explorer 1 : After the launch of Sputnik 1 and 2, the United States stepped up in its efforts to launch its own artificial satellite and on January 31, 1958, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) successfully launched Explorer 1.

Launch of Vostok 1 : Vostok 1 was the greatest Soviet triumph in the Space Race. On April 12, 1961, the Vostok spacecraft took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome; it was carrying Yuri Gagarin (1934-1961) who became the first human in history to travel into space.

Launch of Mercury- Redstone 3 : The Soviets beat the United States with the first successful human spaceflight but just a few weeks after Vostok 1, NASA launched its own “Vostok program” - the Project Mercury.

Apollo 11 Moon Landing : Soon after the launch of the Project Mercury, NASA laid down plans for the first (manned) Moon landing.

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5.  Know about Proxy Wars (dates, course of events, significance, involved parties, how did they end...)

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5.  Know about Proxy Wars (dates, course of events, significance, involved parties, how did they end...)

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1.  Vietnam -  North Vietnam, supported by the Soviet Union, invaded South Vietnam after the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States, refused to hold the mandated elections in 1956 to unite Vietnam. The Vietnam War is a typical proxy war during the Cold War under the influence of the U.S., Soviet Union and, to a large extent, China. Although the Soviet Union and China actively supplied North Vietnam with financial aid, military training, materiel and logistics, unlike the United States and their allies, they fought the war through their proxies and did not enter the conflict directly.

2. Korea - The Korean War was the first battle of the Cold War, and first major proxy war fought between the United States and a Soviet communist supported enemy. In the Korean War from 1950-1953, the Soviet Union supported North Korea. North Korea, unprovoked, invaded South Korea in June 1950 with the goal of uniting Korea into a communist country. The United States, which supported South Korea, went to the United Nations to request action regarding this invasion. The United Nations created a multinational force, led by the United States, to remove North Korea from South Korea. This war, which ended in a stalemate, kept South Korea free from communist rule.

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6.  Know about President Nixon’s contributions to the Cold War

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6.  Know about President Nixon’s contributions to the Cold War

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1. What is detente?
is a French word meaning release from tension. It is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972.
2. What is Ping-Pong Diplomacy?
refers to the exchange of table tennis (ping-pong) players between the United States and People's Republic of China (PRC) in the early 1970s. The event marked a thaw in Sino-American relations that paved the way to a visit to Beijing by President Richard Nixon.

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7.  When did East and West Germany finally reunify?

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7.  When did East and West Germany finally reunify?

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1.  What event led to the reunification?

By the late 1989 the Berlin Wall started to come down. Shortly thereafter, talks between East and West German officials, joined by officials from the United States, Great Britain, France, and the USSR, began to explore the possibility of reunification. Two months following reunification, all-German elections took place and Helmut Kohl became the first chancellor of the reunified Germany.

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8.  Know about the fall of the Soviet Union.

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8.  Know about the fall of the Soviet Union.

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On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics (Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. Instead, they declared they would establish a Commonwealth of Independent States.

1. Glasnost - (in the former Soviet Union) the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985.

2.Perestroika - (in the former Soviet Union) the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. First proposed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika originally referred to increased automation and labor efficiency, but came to entail greater awareness of economic markets and the ending of central planning.

3.Mikhail Gorbachev -

1. is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved

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9.  Explain the positive and negative effects of a U.S. action during the cold war.

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9.  Explain the positive and negative effects of a U.S. action during the cold war.

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1.  Give and event that the U.S. was involved in and list the positive and negative outcomes it produced.

Positive -

pledged American support for the people of Europe

was not just about supporting the rights of a majority against the armed might of a minority, it also had a strategic bearing to it.

purpose - to ease the USSR demands in Turkey and to stabilize the government in Greece to prevent the spread of communism.

Negative -

one of the first major actions in the Cold War
2.Bay of Pigs Invasion -   was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506 on 17 April 1961. A counter-revolutionary military, trained and funded by the United States government's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Brigade 2506 fronted the armed wing of the Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF) and intended to overthrow the increasingly communist government of Fidel Castro. Launched from Guatemala, the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces, under the direct command of Prime Minister Fidel Castro.

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10.  Give a detailed summary of two Cold War Events.

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10.  Give a detailed summary of two Cold War Events.

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"Iron Curtain" - "Iron Curtain" is a term used to describe the boundary that separated the Warsaw Pact countries from the NATO countries from about 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The Iron Curtain was both a physical and an ideological division that represented the way Europe was viewed after World War II. To the east of the Iron Curtain were the countries that were connected to or influenced by the former Soviet Union. This included part of Germany Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania.

Cuban Missile Crisis - The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. Luckily, thanks to the bravery of two men, President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, war was averted.