Cold+War+Quiz

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 * Cold War Quiz- YES! You MAY write on this. You’re welcome.

__**DIRECTIONS:**__ **Use your notes and brain power from what you have learned in the past few days of class to answer the questions below as completely as possible.**
 * Page numbers are given** **but you should not need them! You are graded on your own wording and how CLEAR your answers are. WRITE SMALL!**

1. What was the Cold War? P.969

2. What does the phrase “self determination” mean and what did it have to do with the USSR? (glossary)

3. What did Churchill mean when he said “//an iron curtain has descended across the continen// t”. P967 blue box and below it.

4. Explain Truman’s policy of containment. P.967 bottom.

5. What was the Truman Doctrine? P.968

6. What was the Marshall Plan? P.968

7. What was the Sputnik satellite and how did it relate to the Cold War? P.971

8. Describe two ways that the United States and the USSR tried to influence other countries? Boxes p.983 a.

b.

9. Who was Gorbechev and what did he do that was so incredible? P.1046 and (photo 1048)