Create a word processing document titled "Cold War." Copy the following questions to your document and answer in complete paragraphs 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.