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These are the two military
alliances formed after 1945
What are NATO and the WARSAW Pact?
He was the leader of the
Soviet Union when it
collapsed in 1991.
Who was Mikhail Gorabchev?
This structure was built
in 1961 and became a
symbol of the Cold War.
What was the Berlin Wall?
This agreement was signed
in 1959 by 12 nations
banning the use of nuclear
testing in Antarctica.
What was the Antarctic Treaty?
This is trade organization set
up by the nations of France,
Luxembourg, West
Germany, Belgium, Italy and
the Netherlands.
What was the Common Market and the
European Coal and Steel Community?
This is the name of the trade
organization that formed in
Europe after 1973 into the
1990s, that eased trade
restrictions between
European countries.
What is the European Union?
These are two countries
that experienced ethnic
tensions in Europe after
WWII.
What are Yugoslavia, Germany, the USSR,
etc. ?
This would be an example of
a welfare state in Europe
after WWII.
What were Great Britain, France, Italy,
Sweden, etc.?
This was the one of the
authoritarian leaders of a
European country that died
in the 1970s.
Who was Francisco Franco of Spain, or
Antonio Salazar of Portugal?
This was the chancellor of
West Germany who
enabled the reunification
of the two Germanys in
1990.
Who was Helmut Kohl?
He became the Prime
Minister of Great Britain
after Winston Churchill.
Who was Clement Atlee?
This is the political party in
Great Britain that endorsed
and created the welfare state
and “Big Government”.
What was the British Labour Party?
She became the first female
Prime Minister of Great
Britain and reduced the size
of the government and
reduced taxes.
Who was Margaret Thatcher?
These are two colonies
that Great Britain gave
up after WWII.
What are Nigeria, Kenya, Palestine, India,
Pakistan, Sudan, Uganda, etc.
This is the section of Ireland
that still remained part of
Great Britain.
What is Northern Ireland?
These are two countries that
France fought in trying to
keep their colonial empire
after WWII.
What are Vietnam And Algeria?
He became the new premier
of France with extensive
powers and set up the Fifth
Republic of France in 1958.
Who was Charles De Gaulle?
This is the city where riots
took place in 1968 and
eventually led to the
resignation of the French
Premier.
What was Paris?
He was the French socialist
who was elected Premier in
the early 1980s.
What was Francois Mitterand?
This is the city in France
where the famous
international film festival
takes place every year.
What is Cannes on French Riviera?
A country that taxes heavily
and increases the size of the
government in order to help
people with social programs
is sometimes called this.
What is a Welfare State?
This was the government
policy of West German
chancellor Willy Brandt who
openly negotiated with the
USSR and eastern European
countries.
What was Ostpolitik?
This is the Treaty that was
signed in 1973 between the
super powers limiting the
use of global nuclear tests.
What was the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
The1970s saw a relaxation
of tensions between the
USSR and the US or an era
of this.
What was an era of Detente?
This would be the type of
industry that is represented
by health care, finance or
banking, sales and education.
What is a Service Industry?
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USSR
Eastern Europe
This was the United States
program to rebuild western
Europe after WWII.
What was the Marshall Plan?
These were two programs
adopted by welfare states to
help people.
What were public health care, public housing,
unemployment insurance, pension funds,
public education, etc.?
These are two policies
adopted by welfare states
that worried conservatives
What were nationalizing industries and
raising taxes to pay for social welfare
programs?
This is the organization that
helped cause the “oil shock”.
What was OPEC or the Organization of
Petroleum Exporting Countries?
This is the reason why a
unified Europe is unlikely.
What is nationalism, past hatreds ( WWI and
WWII), ethnic and cultural diversity?
He was the Conservative
premiere of France in 1990.
Who was Jacques Chirac? ( the current
Premiere)
He was the West German
chancellor following WWII.
Who was Conrad Adenauer?
This was the country that
experienced an “economic
miracle” after WWII.
What was West Germany?
This country’s multiparty
system caused political
instability after WWII.
What was Italy, but also France?
He is the current Prime
Minister of Great Britain.
Who is Tony Blair?
He was the U.S. Senator that
helped cause the “Red
Scare” of the 1950s.
Who was Sen. Joseph McCarthy?
These are two of the wars to
stop communism, that the
United States was involved
in following WWII.
What were the Korean and the Vietnam
Wars?
He was the President of the
United States that negotiated
an end to the Vietnam War.
Who was Richard Nixon?
This was the name given to
Lyndon Johnson’s social
programs to help the poor
and elderly in the United
States.
What was The Great Society?
This is the famous law case
that marked an end of racial
segregation in public
schools.
What was Brown V Board of Education of
Topeka?
He was the successor to
Joseph Stalin who tried to
de-Stalinize the Soviet
Union.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
Examples of these Soviet
citizens would be Andrei
Sakharov and Alexander
Solzhenitsyn.
Who were Soviet dissidents?
Mikhail Gorbachev called
for openness in the Soviet
Press or this.
What was glasnost?
These are three of the former
Soviet Socialist Republics
after the break-up of the
Soviet Union in 1991.
What are Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus,
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan,
Tajikistan, Moldova, Armenia, and
Kyrgyzstan?
This is the area in the
Caucasus Mountains where
rebels are fighting Russian
troops.
Who is Chechnya?
He was the leader of the
“Hungarian Freedom
Fighters” that resisted Soviet
domination in 1956.
Who was Imre Nagy?
This country resisted Soviet
domination in 1968 and later
elected a poet as their
President.
What was Czechoslovakia and the poet was
Vaclav Havel?
This Romanian leader was
overthrown and executed
because of the brutality of
his regime.
Who was Nicolae Ceausescu?
This was the movement in
Poland that began in the
Gdansk, (Poland) shipyards
and was led by Lech Walesa.
What was the Solidarity Movement?
This was another term for
the practice of Serbs
removing ethnic minorities
from Bosnia.
What was ethnic cleansing?