WHAP AMSCO Cold War Mind Map Guide

The Cold War

The U.S. & Soviet Union compete for global domination!

The Cold War

8.2

Explain the causes & effects of the ideological struggle of the Cold War

What was the "Iron Curtain?"

Compare the economic systems of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

Compare the political systems of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.

What criticisms did the two superpowers have of each other? What are satellite countries?

Uncle Sam's Plans

Step 3

Step 2

What did the Marshall Plan do?

Explain the American policy of Containment.

What was the Truman Doctrine?

Explain the significance of Sputnik to the Cold War

What was Mutually Assured Destruction?

The Middle Road?

What was the purpose of the Non-Aligned Movement?

What problems did the Non-Aligned Movement have?

What leaders & countries were associated with the Non-Aligned Movement?

Effects of the Cold War

8.3

Compare the ways in which the United States & the Soviet Union sought to maintain influence over the course of the Cold War

It began in Berlin...

Explain what the Soviets were trying to do with the Berlin Blockade, and how the West countered it with the Berlin Airlift.

Why did East Germany build the Berlin Wall?

Fighting by Proxy

Explain the outcome of the proxy war in Korea.

What is a proxy war?

How did the U.S. & the U.S.S.R. get involved in conflicts in Angola & Nicaragua?

Explain how the Domino Theory pulled the U.S. deeper into a proxy war in Vietnam.

How did the Cuban Missile Crisis nearly become a war between the U.S. & the U.S.S.R.?

How did the Nuclear Test Ban & Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaties help lessen the global threat posed by the superpowers?

Spread of Communism

8.4

Explain the causes and consequences of China's adoption of communism

China becomes Communist

What was the actual goal of the Cultural Revolution in China?

Explain the Great Leap Forward and its impact on China.

Why did the Communists win popular support in the Chinese Civil War?