CHAPTER 27 – The Cold War

1. ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR

a. Sources of Soviet-American Tension

b. Wartime Diplomacy

c. Yalta

2. THE COLLAPSE OF THE PEACE

a. The Failure of Potsdam

b. The China Problem

c. The Containment Doctrine

d. The Marshall Plan

e. Mobilizing at Home

f. The Road to NATO

g. Reevaluating Cold War Policy

3. AMERICAN SOCIETY AND POLITICS AFTER THE WAR

a. The Problems of Reconversion

b. The Fair Deal Rejected

c. The Election of 1948

d. The Fair Deal Revised

e. The Nuclear Age

4. THE KOREAN WAR

a. The Divided Peninsula

b. From Invasion to Stalemate

c. Limited Mobilization

5. THE CRUSADE AGAINST SUBVERSION

a. HUAC and Alger Hiss

b. The Federal Loyalty Program and the Rosenberg Case

c. McCarthyism

d. The Republican Revival

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...

• containment
• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• nationalist movements
• decolonization
• military-industrial complex
• non-violent civil disobedience

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• Alger Hiss
• Atlantic Charter
• containment
• Douglas MacArthur
• Fair Deal
• George F. Kennan
• House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
• Joseph McCarthy
• Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
• Mao Zedong
• Marshall Plan
• McCarthyism
• National Security Act
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
• NSC-68
• Syngman Rhee
• Taft-Hartley Act
• Thomas E. Dewey
• Truman Doctrine
• United Nations
• Warsaw Pact
• Whittaker Chambers
• Yalta Conference

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