Ch27

Question 1

Cold war begins

Answer 1

1945

Question 2

India and Pakistan win independence from Britain

Answer 2

1947

Question 3

State of Israel is established

Answer 3

1948

Question 4

Mao Zedong leads Communist revolution in China

Answer 4

1949

Question 5

Simone de Beauvoir publishes “The Second Sex”

Answer 5

1949

Question 6

Korean War begins

Answer 6

1950

Question 7

Stalin dies

Answer 7

1953

Question 8

Korean War ends

Answer 8

1953

Question 9

Brown v. Board of Education prohibits segregated schools in the United States

Answer 9

1954

Question 10

Vietnamese forces defeat French at Dien Bien Phu

Answer 10

1954

Question 11

General Abdel Nasser nationalizes Suez Canal

Answer 11

1956

Question 12

Uprising in Hungary against USSR

Answer 12

1956

Question 13

Boris Pasternak publishes Doctor Zhivago

Answer 13

1957

Question 14

USSR launches Sputnik

Answer 14

1957

Question 15

Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Market)

Answer 15

1957

Question 16

Fifth Republic begins in France

Answer 16

1958

Question 17

United States and USSR face off in the Cuban missile crisis

Answer 17

1962

Question 18

Which year the state of Israel was founded?

Answer 18

1948

Question 19

Which year the two German states were created? Please give us he name of these two states

Answer 19

1949

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)
East Germany (German Democratic Republic)

Question 20

What was the Cold War?

Answer 20

1947 - 1991

Decades-long struggle for global supremacy that pitted the capitalist USA against the communist Soviet Union.

Americans and British feared the permanent Soviet domination of eastern Europe and the threat of Soviet-influenced communist parties coming to power in the democracies of western Europe.

Question 21

Which year the Berlin Wall was erected?

Answer 21

1961

Question 22

Which year the European common market was started?

Answer 22

1957

Question 23

Truman Doctrine

Answer 23

The policy devised byU.S. president Harry Truman to limit communism after World War II by countering political crises with economic and military aid.

Question 24

Marshall Plan

Answer 24

A post–World War II
program funded by the United States to get
Europe back on its feet economically and
thereby reduce the appeal of communism.
It played an important role in the rebirth of
European prosperity in the 1950s.

Question 25

North Atlantic Treaty

Answer 25

(NATO) The security alliance formed in 1949 to provide a unified military force for the United States, Canada, and their allies in western Europe and Scandinavia.

Question 26

Warsaw Pact

Answer 26

A security alliance of the Soviet Union and its allies formed in 1955, in retaliation for NATO’s admittance of West Germany