History Exam Materials Flashcards

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What is Radio Free Europe

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

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Who is Nikkita Krushchev

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

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3
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What is trade union

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Groups that work to increase the wages of workers.

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What is Brezhnev Doctrine

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

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Who is Jan Masaryk

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

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What is socialism with a human face

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

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Defect

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

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Who is Walter Ulbricht

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

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Who is Willy Brandt

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Mayor of West Berlin

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10
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What is the No man’s land

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

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What is the velvet’s revolution

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

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what is pan arabism

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

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what is ba ‘ ath party

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

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14
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what is the revolutionary command council

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

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15
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What is the national assembly

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

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16
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What is solidarity

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

17
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What was Czechoslovakia created out of

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Austro Hungarian empire

18
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Which countries did Dubcek turn to for help?

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Romania and Yugoslavia

19
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What became the serious issue under Brezhnev?

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Corruption

20
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What moment symbolized the end of Cold War?

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

21
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How did Reagen believed the Cold War could be won

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

22
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What doctrine did the USSR eventually abandoned?

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Brezhnev doctrine

23
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What happened when communism collapsed across Eastern Europe

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

24
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Saddam was an admirer of?

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Stalin

25
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Saddam consolidated his power by?

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

26
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What three provinces of the Ottoman Empire did the British created Iraqi of?

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Mosul, Baghdad and Basra

27
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Why was Hungary resistant to Soviet control

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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.

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What happened in Hungary after Stalin died

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

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Dubcek’s reforms

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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

30
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What happened to the West Berliners that had been out in the East the night the wall was built?

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

31
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Why was Poland more complicated to control?

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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