Honors American History
Unit 7:  The Early Cold War

Reading Schedule
In preparation
for class on…	Read…	Identify…	
Terms in bold print should be identified using the “CaDRES” format (if appropriate).	
Tuesday
March 7	Chap 25 – Sec 1
Roots of the Cold War	RC – What were some of the issues that led to a “cold war” between the U.S. and the Soviet Union (pp. 816-19 only)?  
•	Iron Curtain
•	containment, George F. Kennan
•	Truman Doctrine
•	Marshall Plan
•	Berlin Crisis, Berlin Airlift
•	NATO	
Monday
March 13	Chap 25 – Sec 3
Second Red Scare	•	Soviet atomic bomb
•	Communist takeover of China, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong
•	House Un-American Activities Cmte. (HUAC), Hollywood Ten
•	Smith Act, McCarran Act
•	Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs
•	Joe McCarthy, McCarthyism, demise of McCarthy	
Wednesday
March 15	Chap 25 – Sec 4
Korean War	•	38th parallel
•	Kim Il Sung, Syngman Rhee
RC – Why did the U.S. intervene in Korea?
•	UN police action
RC – Summarize the changes in the Korean War (see p. 838-39)
•	Truman’s firing of MacArthur	
Thursday
March 16	Chap 26 – Sec 1
Eisenhower and
the Cold War	•	John Foster Dulles, brinkmanship, massive retaliation
•	Nikita Khrushchev, Warsaw Pact
•	summit, “open skies”
•	Eisenhower Doctrine
•	U-2 incident	
Friday
March 17		MID-UNIT 7 QUIZ	
Friday
March 17	Chap 26 – Sec 2
Atomic Anxiety	•	hydrogen bomb (H-bomb), ICBMs
•	Sputnik
•	NASA
•	Federal Civil Defense Administration (FCDA)
•	Eisenhower’s military-industrial complex speech	
Monday
March 20		Naviance (Guidance Department)	
Tuesday
March 21		NO SCHOOL – ACT Testing (Juniors only)	
Wednesday
March 22	Chap 27 – Sec 1
Kennedy and
the Cold War	•	Election of 1960
•	Bay of Pigs invasion
•	Second Berlin Crisis, Berlin Wall
•	Cuban Missile Crisis, Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
•	Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress	
Friday, March 24 & Monday, April 3 – Unit 7 Test & Essay (The Early Cold War)	

Essay Questions
You will be expected to answer several of these questions in essay form on the unit test, in class, and/or at home.

1)	Analyze the causes of the Cold War between the United States and Soviet Union.  Limit your discussion to events
	between 1917 and 1949.

2)	Analyze how Americans responded to the dangers of the Cold War and the nuclear age.  Limit your discussion to
	Americans' domestic responses. 
 
3)	To what extent was the containment policy a success in each of the following regions between 1945 and 1963: 
	Middle East/Asia, Europe, Latin America?

4)	Compare and contrast the Cold War strategies of Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy.

Ohio’s Learning Standards
The following content statements from Ohio’s Learning Standards (2012) will be studied in this unit.

Use of atomic weapons changed the nature of war, altered the balance of power and began the nuclear age.  (CS #23)

The United States followed a policy of containment during the Cold War in response to the spread of communism.  (CS #24)

The Second Red Scare and McCarthyism reflected Cold War fears in American society.  (CS #25)

The Cold War and conflicts in Korea…influenced domestic and international politics.  (CS #26)