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AP European History
Hancock
CHAPTER 30
COLD WAR CONFLICTS & SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS 1945-1968
READING & STUDY GUIDE
Directions:
Follow the format as explained and modeled on the Reading for Content & Critical Thinking assignment
sheet. Make sure to complete all parts of the assignment as required. If you have any questions please
come see me.
Students are expected to:
1. Do the assigned reading every night. See calendars available on line.
2. Take notes on the reading.
3. Answer the reading questions on each chapter study guide in complete sentences.
4. Hand in Chapter Analysis
Learning Objectives - After reading and studying this chapter you should be able to:
1. discuss the causes of the cold war.
2. explain how and why western Europe recovered so successfully from the Second World War.
3. explain how recovery took place in the Soviet Union and the United States.
4. show how and why European empires collapsed; Asians & Africans gained political independence.
5. distinguish how people lived in the postwar era and explain the revolutionary surge of the 1960s.
Reading Questions:
1. Describe the dispute between the United States and Russia at the end of the war. How and why did it escalate
into a cold war?
2. Why were the Teheran and Yalta conferences important in shaping the map of postwar Europe?
3. What are the sources of the Soviet Union’s paranoia about Germany and vice versa?
4. How did Europe accomplish economic recovery after the war? What factors contributed to its growth?
5. Which approach toward European unity was most successful, the political or the economic? Why?
6. Describe the steps taken toward European economic unity. What impact does this unity have on the European
and world economy?
7. Was nationalism completely dead in postwar Europe? Who was de Gaulle and what was his ambition?
8. What impact did the World War II have on peoples’ opinions about imperialism and European empires?
9. Describe the development of nationalism in India compared with that in China.
10. Evaluate Stalin’s postwar policy and actions. Why were many Russian nationalists disappointed in them? How
would you judge Stalin’s place in Soviet history?
11. Describe the circumstances surrounding Khrushchev’s famous Twentieth Party Congress speech in 1956. What
were the results of his policy?
12. What were the reasons for Khrushchev’s fall from power and the beginning of the re-Stalinization in 1964?
13. Describe life in the Soviet Union after 1964. What were the positive and negative features of the Soviet state in
the Brezhnev era?
14. “Postwar domestic politics in the United States consisted largely of making modest adjustments to the status
quo.” Why was this so?
15. What were the milestones in the civil rights revolution?
16. Why did science become Big Science in the postwar era? What is the purpose of Big Science?
17. How has the rise of Big Science altered the lives of modern scientists?
18. What changes have taken place in the European class structure since the war? Does greater or less mobility
exist? Has the distribution of income remained the same?
19. What were the reasons and outcome of the European student rebellions of the late 1960?