World Since 1945

Question 1

Cold War

Answer 1

rivalry between ussr and USA

threats for a bomb (never actually dropped)

Question 2

Warsaw Pact

Answer 2

communist nations of e. Europe dominated by ussr

Question 3

NATO

Answer 3

North Atlantic treaty organization

Question 4

iron curtain

Answer 4

Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania

ruled by ussr

Question 5

Marshall plan

Answer 5

economic aid from US to rebuild Europe after WW2

Question 6

Truman doctrine

Answer 6

Truman said US must support any nation resisting communism

Question 7

Berlin airlift

Answer 7

marked first major Cold War confrontation

Question 8

Berlin Wall

Answer 8

divided east and west Germany

Question 9

arms race

Answer 9

reduces $ = weak economy all over Europe

Question 10

disarmament

Answer 10

distrust blocked progress

nuclear test ban treaty

Question 11

détente

Answer 11

relaxation of tensions w agreement to reduce nuclear stock piles

Question 12

mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 12

Soviet leader

eased grip on Eastern European countries

Question 13

terrorism

Answer 13

violence for political reasons

Question 14

ethnic cleansing

Answer 14

non Serbs were killed/ forced out of countries

Question 15

UN

Answer 15

United Nations

Question 16

WHO

Answer 16

world hunger organization

Question 17

EU

Answer 17

European Union

Question 18

NAFTA

Answer 18

North Atlantic free trade agreement

Question 19

GATT

Answer 19

General agreement of tariffs and trade

Question 20

WTO

Answer 20

world trade organization

Question 21

G-8

Answer 21

group of eight

Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and US

Question 22

urbanization

Answer 22

cities
breakdown of extended families
slums on outskirts of cities

Question 23

IRA

Answer 23

Irish Republican Army

some Catholics used terrorism

Question 24

Ostpolitik

Answer 24

w. Germany chancellors policy

attempt to ease tensions

Question 25

glasnost

Answer 25

policy called for more opening ms w nations of west and relaxing of restraint on soviet a

Question 26

perestroika

Answer 26

policy to revitalize Soviet economy

Question 27

Brezhnev doctrine

Answer 27

flattened Alexander dubeks reforms

Question 28

Nicolas ceausescu

Answer 28

Romania
refused to step down
over thrown and excecuted

Question 29

Josip Tito

Answer 29

Yugoslavia

Question 30

slobodan milosevic

Answer 30

used army to keep country United

killed or forced non Serbs to migrate (ethnic cleansing)

Question 31

❕role of women since 1945

Answer 31

women aren’t equal

better but men are still payed more

Question 32

❕technology since 1945

Answer 32

computer
Internet
medicines
satellites

still limited on world hunger

Question 33

❕GB and Ireland

Answer 33

Ireland has been independent of GB since 1922

Irish republic= Roman Catholic
6 north countries are Protistans
^ created violence

Question 34

❕reunified Germany

Answer 34

wall knocked down

helmut kohl is the new chancellor

Question 35

‼️fall of the Soviet Union

Answer 35

1️⃣ causes 
•mikhail Gorbachev 
•glasnost and perestroika are policies for Cold War
2️⃣ results 
•economic turmoil w high prices 
• many shortages and much unemployment 
•failed factories 
3️⃣ freedom
• east and west Germany
•Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania