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A.P. European History The Cold War Era
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The Cold War Era
Containment And Conflict
100
200
300
400
500
The Cold War Heats Up
100
200
300
400
500
Decolonization
100
200
300
400
500
The Soviet Union
100
200
300
400
500
Eastern Europe
100
200
300
400
500
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What were Turkey and Greece?
MAIN
These were the two countries that Truman asked
congress to support in resisting Communism in
1947.
SUBJECT Containment and Conflict
500
400
300
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100
4
Who was Vyacheslav Molotov?
MAIN

• He was Stalins foreign minister who spoke
  publicly in 1946 that the western democracies
  were the enemies of the Soviet Union.

SUBJECT Containment and Conflict
500
400
300
200
100
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What was the Truman Doctrine?
MAIN

• This was the speech and ultimately the policy of
  the United States which proposed the idea of
  containing the spread of Communism and
  containment.

SUBJECT Containment and Conflict
500
400
300
200
100
6
What was the Berlin Blockade and airlift ?
MAIN

• This was the city that the Soviet Union sought
  to seal off and isolate from the western world in
  February 1948.

SUBJECT Containment and Conflict
500
400
300
200
100
7
What was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
and the Council of Mutual Assistance and later in
1955 became the Warsaw Pact?
MAIN

• These were the two opposing military alliances
  that formed in 1949 and marked an escalation of
  the Cold War.

SUBJECT Containment and Conflict
500
400
300
200
100
8
What was the Balfour Declaration?
MAIN

• This was the British promise that favored the
  establishment of a Jewish homeland, unfortunately
  they also promised Arabs from Palestine their own
  homeland.

SUBJECTThe Cold War Heats Up
500
400
300
200
100
9
What was the Korean War?
MAIN

• This was the conflict that broke out in June,
  1950 and forced the United Nations and the United
  States to intervene and stop the aggression of
  Communist troops.

SUBJECTThe Cold War Heats Up
500
400
300
200
100
10
Who was Gamal Abdel Nasser?
MAIN

• He took control of the Suez Canal in 1956 and
  declared war on Israel, which France and Great
  Britain used as an excuse to invade Egypt.

SUBJECTThe Cold War Heats Up
500
400
300
200
100
11
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
MAIN

• This was the event in 1962 that marked the
  closest the world has come to all out Nuclear War
  between the Soviet Union and the United States.

SUBJECTThe Cold War Heats Up
500
400
300
200
100
12
What was the Berlin Wall?
MAIN

• This was the structure built by the Soviet Union
  that became the symbol of the Cold war in 1961
  and halted the flow of refugees from the
  Communist east.

SUBJECTThe Cold War Heats Up
500
400
300
200
100
13
What was Indonesia?
MAIN

• This was the area that the Dutch were forced to
  abandon in 1949 and the nation that was created
  when they left.

500
SUBJECT Decolonization
400
300
200
100
14
What was Angola and Mozambique?
MAIN

• These were the two countries in Africa that the
  Portuguese finally abandoned in 1974 and 1975,
  and left in a state of political conflict.

500
SUBJECT Decolonization
400
300
200
100
15
What was the French Algerian War ?
MAIN

• This was the war that lasted from 1945 until 1962
  and eventually ends the Fourth Republic of France
  and brings Charles de Gaulle to power.

500
SUBJECT Decolonization
400
300
200
100
16
What were Cyprus in 1960 and Malta in 1964?
MAIN

• These were the two Mediterranean Islands that
  were once part of the British Empire that
  demanded independence after World War II.

500
SUBJECT Decolonization
400
300
200
100
17
Who were Mohandis Gandhi and the Indian National
Congress, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim
League in 1947 ?
MAIN

• These were the leaders and political parties that
  led independence movements against the British
  after World War II.

500
SUBJECT Decolonization
400
300
200
100
18
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
MAIN

• He was the leader of the Soviet Union during the
  Cuban Missile Crisis and succeeded Joseph Stalin.

500
400
300
SUBJECT The Soviet Union
200
100
19
What was Hungary and Imre Nagy who was executed
in 1958?
MAIN

• This was the country that revolted from Soviet
  control in 1956 after being offered U.S. support
  only to be abandoned and left to Soviet
  retaliation.

500
400
300
SUBJECT The Soviet Union
200
100
20
What was Sputnik?
MAIN

• This was the space satellite that was launched by
  the Soviet Union and seemed to show the
  technological advancement of the communist
  system.

500
400
300
SUBJECT The Soviet Union
200
100
21
Who was Leonid Brezhnev and the Brezhnev Doctrine?
MAIN

• He was the leader of the Soviet Union who
  replaced Khrushchev in 1964 and declared the
  right to interfere in the domestic politics of
  other communist countries.

500
400
300
SUBJECT The Soviet Union
200
100
22
Who was Andrei Sakharov and his wife Yelena
Bonner who were both jailed ?
MAIN

• He was the Soviet scientist who developed the
  Soviet hydrogen bomb and won the Nobel Peace
  Prize in 1975 and criticized the government which
  retaliated by having him committed to a mental
  institution.

500
400
300
SUBJECT The Soviet Union
200
100
23
Who was Slobodan Milosevic who died in prison in
2006 ?
MAIN

• He was the Serb leader who initiated ethnic
  cleansing of Muslims and Croats in Serbia and by
  forced attempted to maintain a unified
  Yugoslavia.

500
400
300
SUBJECT Eastern Europe
200
100
24
What was the Prague Spring?
MAIN

• This was the name given to the Czechoslovakian
  autonomy movement in 1968 led by Alexander Dubcek
  and quickly suppressed by the Soviet Union.

500
400
300
SUBJECT Eastern Europe
200
100
25
Who was Lech Walesa and Poland?
MAIN

• This was the country and leader who led the
  Solidarity Movement which helped bring about the
  collapse of the Soviet Union from the city and
  shipyards of Gdansk.

500
400
300
SUBJECT Eastern Europe
200
100
26
What was Romania, both him and his wife were
executed on Romanian television?
MAIN

• This was the eastern European country where
  violence erupted when the leader Nicolae
  Ceausescu had soldiers fire on protesting crowds.

500
400
300
SUBJECT Eastern Europe
200
100
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Who was Mikhail Gorbachev, who was replaced by
Boris Yeltsin in 1992?
MAIN

• He was the leader of the Soviet Union when it
  unraveled in 1991 and was almost deposed in a
  conservative coup in August of 1991.

500
400
300
SUBJECT Eastern Europe
200
100