Unit 19

Question 1

An era of tension between the USA and Soviet Union that lasted from roughly 1945 to 1990

Answer 1

Cold War

Question 2

USA, GB, USSR agree eastern Europe will have free elections AND govt’s that are pro-Russian

Answer 2

Yalta Conference

Question 3

President Truman demands immediate, free elections in eastern Europe

Answer 3

Potsdam Conference

Question 4

postwar US foreign policy that sought to limit the spread of communism

Answer 4

containment

Question 5

1st two countries where containment was applied

Answer 5

Greece and Turkey

Question 6

program for Europe that included $13 billion in direct monetary aid

Answer 6

Marshall Plan

Question 7

city that was blockaded by the Soviets in 1948; Truman responded with an airlift

Answer 7

Berlin

Question 8

western military alliance in Cold War

Answer 8

NATO

Question 9

eastern (communist) military alliance in Cold War

Answer 9

Warsaw Pact

Question 10

political party that dominated West Germany as well as many other western European countries in the postwar era; provided effective political leadership

Answer 10

Christian Democrats

Question 11

left-wing British party that implemented national health insurance and nationalized some industries

Answer 11

Labour Party

Question 12

economist who believed in deficit spending to stimulate the economy in recessions

Answer 12

John Maynard Keynes

Question 13

French economist; helped build European economic unity with the Common Market

Answer 13

Jean Monnet

Question 14

German economist who helped rebuild West German economy

Answer 14

Ludwig Erhard

Question 15

first attempt at economic union in Europe

Answer 15

European Coal and Steel Community (1952)

Question 16

reduced European tariffs on all goods in member states and allowed for freer movement of labor

Answer 16

European Economic Community (Common Market)

Question 17

created the Common Market

Answer 17

Treaty of Rome

Question 18

colonial conflict that caused the downfall of the Fourth French Republic

Answer 18

Algerian War

Question 19

French nationalist leader that created the Fifth French Republic; President from 1958-1969

Answer 19

Charles de Gaulle

Question 20

process by which European nations gave up their colonies

Answer 20

decolonization

Question 21

area of Middle East Britain ruled after World War II

Answer 21

British Mandate of Palestine

Question 22

British promise to give Jews a homeland in the Middle East

Answer 22

Balfour Declaration of 1917

Question 23

communist leader of Yugoslavia who maintained independence from the Soviet Union

Answer 23

Josip Broz (Tito)

Question 24

Soviet leader who assumed power after Stalin’s death; denounced Stalin’s atrocities

Answer 24

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 25

written by Pasternak; criticized communist state

Answer 25

Doctor Zhivago

Question 26

written by Solzhenitsyn; described life in a gulag

Answer 26

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Question 27

rebelled against Soviet rule in 1956

Answer 27

Hungary

Question 28

rebellion against Soviet rule in Czechoslovakia in 1968

Answer 28

Prague Spring

Question 29

Czech leader of Prague Spring

Answer 29

Alexander Dubcek

Question 30

Soviet policy that vowed to crush any rebellions against communist rule in eastern Europe

Answer 30

Brezhnev Doctrine

Question 31

Scientific research backed by govt’s and corporations that could finance it with huge sums of $$

Answer 31

Big Science

Question 32

wrote The Second Sex

Answer 32

Simone de Beauvoir

Question 33

experienced major student revolts in 1968

Answer 33

University of Paris

Question 34

A relaxation of tensions b/w the West and East

Answer 34

detente

Question 35

implemented a policy of reconciliation with the east; known for asking forgiveness of the German crimes of WWII

Answer 35

Willy Brandt

Question 36

conservative Prime Minister of Great Britain who privatized British industry

Answer 36

Margaret Thatcher