History Exam Materials

Question 1

What is Radio Free Europe

Answer 1

Provide radio broadcasts for people living in communist countries in Eastern Europe

Question 2

Who is Nikkita Krushchev

Answer 2

A stalin loyalist and managed to win control of the communist party after Stalin’s death. Made a famous secret speech.

Question 3

What is trade union

Answer 3

Groups that work to increase the wages of workers.

Question 4

What is Brezhnev Doctrine

Answer 4

Stated that Moscow had the right to interfere with military force if any country in Eastern Europe attempted in abandoning communism.

Question 5

Who is Jan Masaryk

Answer 5

A popular liberal and the only non communist left in the government.

Question 6

What is socialism with a human face

Answer 6

Dubcek’s reform policy to show that socialist (communist) policies could and should be more about human needs than power politics.

Question 7

Defect

Answer 7

When a person change allegiance and physically move across a political divide from one state to another

Question 8

Who is Walter Ulbricht

Answer 8

East Germany communist leader, instructed to build a wall around West Berlin

Question 9

Who is Willy Brandt

Answer 9

Mayor of West Berlin

Question 10

What is the No man’s land

Answer 10

The area of contested ground between two enemy trench systems or two countries border control

Question 11

What is the velvet’s revolution

Answer 11

Nationwide protests movement in Czechoslovakia that ended the communist rule in the country

Question 12

what is pan arabism

Answer 12

a doctrine that aimed to unite all arabs and end interference with western powers in the middle east

Question 13

what is ba ‘ ath party

Answer 13

aimed to unite arabs in one single state and remove western influence

Question 14

what is the revolutionary command council

Answer 14

The main decision making and law making body of the Iraqi government

Question 15

What is the national assembly

Answer 15

Posessed no real power, only provide Saddam a place to give speeches

Question 16

What is solidarity

Answer 16

A new trade union formed in Poland by a local technician, Lech Walesa

Question 17

What was Czechoslovakia created out of

Answer 17

Austro Hungarian empire

Question 18

Which countries did Dubcek turn to for help?

Answer 18

Romania and Yugoslavia

Question 19

What became the serious issue under Brezhnev?

Answer 19

Corruption

Question 20

What moment symbolized the end of Cold War?

Answer 20

Gorbachev’s decision to allow Berliners to go across the border between West and East Berlin

Question 21

How did Reagen believed the Cold War could be won

Answer 21

By massively increasing the weapons spending beyond the limits that the Soviet could afford

Question 22

What doctrine did the USSR eventually abandoned?

Answer 22

Brezhnev doctrine

Question 23

What happened when communism collapsed across Eastern Europe

Answer 23

The USSR was broke down into smaller states, Gorbachev was given a novel price

Question 24

Saddam was an admirer of?

Answer 24

Stalin

Question 25

Saddam consolidated his power by?

Answer 25

Purging his enemies in the armed force and part and spread propaganda

Question 26

What three provinces of the Ottoman Empire did the British created Iraqi of?

Answer 26

Mosul, Baghdad and Basra

Question 27

Why was Hungary resistant to Soviet control

Answer 27

A strongly religious nation and the catholic church was a very powerful institution
Hungary was a joint partner in the Austro Hungarian Empire
Hungarians were nationalistic and preferred to be rulers not to be ruled.

Question 28

What happened in Hungary after Stalin died

Answer 28

There were many anti communist protests and Stalin’s allies in Hungary were weakened

Question 29

Dubcek’s reforms

Answer 29

Freedom of Speech
Czechoslovaks were allowed to travel abroad to visit countries beyond the iron curtain
Businesses could run themselves, rather than being told what to produce by the government
Workers councils could be formed, similar to trade unions
A new parliament was to be freely elected

Question 30

What happened to the West Berliners that had been out in the East the night the wall was built?

Answer 30

They weren’t able to return back to west Berlin because of the wall

Question 31

Why was Poland more complicated to control?

Answer 31

Poland was a large country with a lot of catholic citizens that rejected communist beliefs
Many protests
Economy wasn’t growing, huge financial assistance needed