Final exam

Question 1

cold war

Answer 1

political hostility, use of threats, propaganda, never open warfare

Question 2

decolonization

Answer 2

former colonies achieving independence

Question 3

“big 3”

Answer 3

U.S. (truman), Britain, Soviet Union

Question 4

Potsdam conferance

Answer 4

new big 3, US detonates a-bomb, no more nazi-ism, berlin becomes divided

Question 5

iron curtain

Answer 5

divided eastern and western berlin

Question 6

1947 marshall plan, truman doctrine

Answer 6

any country fighting for democracy will receive US assisstance

Question 7

pivotal year in cold war(1949)

Answer 7

kennans doc

Question 8

post war germany

Answer 8

direct: WW2 and collapsing alliance

Question 9

what was soviets answer to NATO?

Answer 9

warsaw pact 1955

Question 10

asia

Answer 10

“hot wars” supported by superpowers, korea and vietnam

Question 11

afghanistan

Answer 11

soviet response to support marxist takeover, 1979-89 vietnam

Question 12

communist block

Answer 12

stalin’s sphere of influence

Question 13

cuban missile crisis

Answer 13

oct 1962

Question 14

capitalism vs communism

Answer 14

issues over arms and consumer goods

Question 15

tiananmen square

Answer 15

student led demonstrations in bejing (1989), basic human and press rights, civilian deaths, massive censorship

Question 16

communism soviet union end?

Answer 16

1991

Question 17

communism in china end?

Answer 17

1979

Question 18

communism in eastern europe?

Answer 18

1989

Question 19

perestroika

Answer 19

restructuring of money and political system

Question 20

glasnost

Answer 20

easing of censorship, easier info access, more open gov

Question 21

berlin blockade/ airlift

Answer 21

resupplied berlin

Question 22

informal empires

Answer 22

heavily influenced by cold war

Question 23

nationalist elites

Answer 23

new future, not old past. recruit mass followings but disconnect and disunity

Question 24

contradictions of empires

Answer 24

education

Question 25

informal empires:

Answer 25

US, Soviet union

Question 26

conjecture

Answer 26

world wars, united nations

Question 27

india

Answer 27

competing interests/ disunity of elites

Question 28

ghandi: step back

Answer 28

satyagraha, modernization bad

Question 29

jinnah: step aside

Answer 29

breaks from INC to form muslim league, demands partition into separate states

Question 30

nehru: step forward

Answer 30

in favor of partition, modernist

Question 31

kwame nkhrumah

Answer 31

ghana, 1957

Question 32

jomo kenyatta

Answer 32

kenya, 1963

Question 33

patrice lumumba

Answer 33

congo, 1960