Chapter 4, The world after the war e3a

Question 1

Prehistory

Answer 1

Up to 3000 BC

Question 2

Antiquity

Answer 2

3000 BC - 500

Question 3

Middle ages

Answer 3

500 - 1500

Question 4

Early modern times

Answer 4

1500 - 1800

Question 5

Modern times

Answer 5

1800+

Question 6

Time of hunters and farmers

Answer 6

Up to 3000 BC

Question 7

Time of Greeks and Romans

Answer 7

3000 BC - 500

Question 8

Time of monks and knights

Answer 8

500 - 1000

Question 9

Time of cities and states

Answer 9

1000 - 1500

Question 10

Time of discoverers and reformers

Answer 10

1500 - 1600

Question 11

Time of regents and monarchs

Answer 11

1600 - 1700

Question 12

Time of wigs and revolutions

Answer 12

1700 - 1800

Question 13

Time of citizens and steam engines

Answer 13

1800 - 1900

Question 14

Time of the world wars

Answer 14

1900 - 1950

Question 15

Time of television and computer

Answer 15

1950+

Question 16

What did both the US and the SU support?

Answer 16

Decolonisation

Question 17

Why did the British leave India?

Answer 17

Because of violence between the Hindus and Muslims

Question 18

Which state did the Muslims in India make in 1947?

Answer 18

Pakistan

Question 19

What does Zionism mean?

Answer 19

Jewish nationalism

Question 20

Who won each time between the Arab countries and Israel?

Answer 20

Israel

Question 21

What’s the ‘police action’?

Answer 21

The Dutch attack against Indonesia in 1947

Question 22

What is ‘regime’?

Answer 22

Government

Question 23

When were all African countries Indepent ?

Answer 23

1990

Question 24

Which countries were with the west?

Answer 24

Mainly the US, and Western Europe, also Taiwan and Japan

Question 25

Which countries were with the east?

Answer 25

Mainly the SU, and Eastern Europe, also Cuba, Vietnam and China for a while

Question 26

What were both the sides military alliance?

Answer 26

NATO and the Warsaw pact

Question 27

What were the political systems?

Answer 27

Democracy and communism

Question 28

What were the economical systems?

Answer 28

Capitalism and communism

Question 29

What were some keywords for the West?

Answer 29

Freedom, individual, long history, liberalism

Question 30

What were some keywords for the East?

Answer 30

Equality, state, collective, 19th century, Marx, Russian revolution 1917

Question 31

What do both sides have in common?

Answer 31

The French Revolution and anti-colonialism

Question 32

What was the containment policy?

Answer 32

The American policy in the Cold War aimed at governments that fought against communism. To reduce communism

Question 33

What was the Marshall plan?

Answer 33

A part of the containment policy that was an economic aid for Western Europe

Question 34

What state did the West Germans create?

Answer 34

BRD, bundesrepublik Deutschland

Question 35

Which state did the east East Germans create?

Answer 35

DDR, Deutsche Demokratische Republik (niet democratisch )

Question 36

What is the dividing line between the communist Eastern Bloc and the capitalist Western Europe called?

Answer 36

The Iron curtain

Question 37

When did North Korea invade South Korea?

Answer 37

1950

Question 38

What are missiles?

Answer 38

Raketten - nuclear bombs

Question 39

Who came after Stalin?

Answer 39

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 40

When did he order the Berlin Wall to be built?

Answer 40

1961

Question 41

What happened in 1962?

Answer 41

Russian missiles had been shipped to Cuba. The communist Fidel Castro has seized power there. A few days after John f. Kennedy demanded Khrushchev to stop, he gave in.

Question 42

After the Cuban missile crisis there were …. years of détente

Answer 42

15

Question 43

Around ….. the tensions grew again

Answer 43

1980

Question 44

After 1985 the Cold War suddenly stopped because of the new Soviet leader: ….

Answer 44

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 45

When was the Cold War?

Answer 45

1945 - 1989

Question 46

When did the Soviet Union come to an end?

Answer 46

1991

Question 47

What is a common market?

Answer 47

An area of several countries with free trade without import tariffs

Question 48

In 1948 the first European trade started with what name?

Answer 48

Benelux, België nederland and Luxemburg

Question 49

In 1951 the ECSC started, what does ECSC stand for and which countries were involved?

Answer 49

The European Coal and Steel Community, France Italy Germany België Nederland Luxemburg

Question 50

Where was the board of the EEC? And what does it stand for?

Answer 50

Brussels, European Economic Community

Question 51

The …………….. has to determine whether countries respect human rights

Answer 51

European court of human rights

Question 52

What are developing counties?

Answer 52

The ones that are changing from agricultural urban societies to industrial societies

Question 53

Who led the communist China in 1949?

Answer 53

Mao Zedong

Question 54

What did he do with the Great Leap Forward?

Answer 54

Make China the most prosperous country by: 1 taking away all private possessions 2 making farmers work on mega projects

Question 55

Famine broke out, what does famine mean?

Answer 55

Hongersnood

Question 56

The Great Leap Forward ended in

1961, around how many people died?

Answer 56

40 million

Question 57

Who made South Korea into a well-functioning parliamentary democracy with a good economy?

Answer 57

General Park