Fallout 3 Strategy Guide

							                                               Cold War Part II Study Guide

1. Identify the Big Three Leaders and the Countries they led during WWII.
2. Explain the roots of the Cold War
3. Use Reading techniques to improve comprehension and speed.

1. Identify George Kennan, Containment, and Truman Doctrine.
2. Explain 4 different methods of dealing with the Soviet Union. (American Peace, Containment, Compromise, and
Avoiding Excessive Entanglement)
3. Debate which method was or would've been the best approach.

1. Identify the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.
2. Explain the goals, method of implementation, and requirements of countries receiving aid.
3. Analyze the purpose of the Marshall Plan from the eyes of the Soviet Union and the United States.

1. Identify Actions taken by the US and Soviet Union to protect themselves.
2. Analyze different courses of action Truman could take responding to the Berlin blockade.
3. Explain and Evaluate Truman's Decision.

1.   Identify reasons for US entry into the Korean War.
2.   Explain US objectives during the Korean War.
3.   Explain the argument between President Truman and General Douglas MacArthur.
4.   Evaluate the decision to end of war in a truce.
5.   Evaluate the Power given to the President to lead the armed forces instead of a military general.

1. Identify Joseph McCarthy, HUAC, Red Scare
2. Evaluate the tactics used to find "Reds"
3. Compare tactics to find witches with tactics used to find "Communists"

1. Identify tactics used in the US to prepare for a nuclear attack. (Duck and Cover, Fall Out Shelters...
2. Evaluate the US readiness in response to a nuclear attack.
3. Explain strategies recommended by the US Government today in event of a nuclear attack.

1. Identify tactics used in the US to prepare for a nuclear attack. (Duck and Cover, Fall Out Shelters...
2. Evaluate the US readiness in response to a nuclear attack.
3. Explain strategies recommended by the US Government today in event of a nuclear attack.

1. Define Mutual Assured Destruction, detterence, Nuclear fallout, first strike.
2. Debate the use of a military strategy based on "Mutual Assured Destruction."


1. Debate whether the United States should attempt sending a man on the moon and/or sending a man/woman to Mars.
2. Identify opportunity cost.
3. Brainstorm a list of things you would bring to space and a list of things you would miss the most, if you were to live
in space.
4. Identify Sputnik, Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gagarin, and John Glenn

1. Identify John F. Kennedy(JFK), Fidel Castro, and M. Khrushchev, First Strike, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Bay or
Pigs.
2. Explain how the relationship between the US and the USSR was strained prior to the Cuban Missile Crisis
3. Analyze the different options the US was considering to handle the situation.
4. Explain how the crisis was eventually settled.
5. Interpret how Fidel and Khrushchez were viewing US actions.