Tough Terms
What was the "domino theory"?
That if one country "fell" to Communism, others would follow.
The plan to give American loans in 1948 to post-war Europe to help it rebuild was called the:
Marshall Plan
World War II survivors
What was the name of the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957?
Sputnik ("satellite")
Neville Chamberlain was the British prime minister who claimed "peace in our time" when he met with Adolf Hitler....he was fooled! Who was the next prime minster, who famously said "We shall fight on the beaches.... we will never surrender!"
Winston Churchill
What were the "purges"?
Imprisonment and execution of millions of Soviet citizens and created great panic for the nation.
Which war stood out as a symbolic rally against capitalism and imperialism?
The Vietnam War
The "first wave" of feminism began just before and after World War I. About when did the "second wave" occur?
1960s
List any of the scientific advancements of the post-war period:
1. DNA structure identification
2. Vaccines
3. Organ transplants
Following the Balfour Declaration (1917) by the British, many Jewish people started to immigrate to Palestine. What year did Israeli statehood (when it became a nation) happen? Hint: It is after World War II ends
1948
Define "collectivization":
Josef Stalin's plan to make all lands produce for the government (the "State"). Millions died, but the end result was the Soviet Union grew wealthy and became a major industrialized power.
The 1973 Oil Crisis was started by what group of most Middle Eastern oil-producing countries (what was the acronym for the group)
OPEC; the Oil Producing and Exporting Countries, which included then of these nations:
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Venezuela
Warsaw Pact and NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
What does "detente" mean?
Easing of tensions between nations through diplomacy, arms reductions, and cultural exchange
When the British decolonized India in 1947, what other country was created (by the British) to separate Muslims, Hindus, and Sikhs? (Many died from the violence between the groups)
Pakistan
Describe the Truman Doctrine of 1947:
It promised to resist Communism wherever it was found.
Western European nations sought better trade and economic cooperation in the "EEC." What do the letters stand for?
European Economic Community
The deployment of nuclear missiles by the Soviet Union into Cuba in 1962 was called the:
Cuban Missile Crisis
Ho Chi Minh was the leader of what resistance force?
North Vietnamese soldiers fighting against the South Vietnamese and the US
The Soviet leader after Josef Stalin died in 1953 was:
Nikita Khrushchev (famous for his "We will bury you!" speech in Moscow in 1956)
What was the Tehran Conference in 1943 all about?
Allied leaders made compromises for post-war Europe. (Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt)
What was the purpose of the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944?
It was the basis for post-war Europe's economic order.
Which Cold War was fought from 1950 to 1953 by proxy nations (China and Russia), with no peace treaty signed to officially end the war?
Korean War. It saw more than 54,000 American soldiers killed and many thousands come home with physical and mental problems.
Nations in post-war Europe that provided security and social programs (to avoid nations from "going Communist") were part of the ____________ state.
Finish the sentence with the word that goes in the blank.
Welfare state
Who was the Soviet leader who worked with President Reagan in the 1980s to reduce nuclear stockpiles and allowed break-away states to become independent nations?
Mikhail Gorbachev