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Chapter 30 Homework
Thursday 4/2/15
989-993
How was the Atlantic Charter a “moralistic agreement”?
A. Besides Roosevelt, which other US President is referred to in relation to the Atlantic
charter?
2.
Who were the “big three”?
3.
What major decision was made at the Teheran conference in Nov. 1943?
4.
a.
What would Churchill have preferred?
b.
What did Stalin prefer?
When the big three next met at Yalta in February 1945:
A. What was the military situation;
a. Where was the Russian Army
b.
Where was the US Army?
B. Why was America’s bargaining position at Yalta weak and Russia’s strong?
C. What was decided with regard to Germany at the Yalta conference?
D. What did Stalin agree to do?
E. What demand did Stalin make regarding the types of governments in Eastern Europe?
5.
What had changed at the Potsdam conference for:
A. The USA
B. Great Britain
C. the Soviet Union
6.
What did Truman demand occur immediately throughout eastern Europe?
7.
How did Truman “get tough” with Stalin?
8.
What did Churchill mean when he referred to the “Iron Curtain” in his speech in 1946?
9.
What was:
A. The Truman Doctrine-
B. The Marshall Plan
10. Why did Stalin block all traffic through the Soviet zone of Germany to Berlin?
A. How did the allies respond?
11. What was the purpose of NATO when it was created in 1949?
Monday 4/6/15
993-1002
1.
How did the Germans suffer the most as a result of the end of the war?
2.
What were the purposes of the:
a. Marshall Plan
b.
3.
4.
NATO
What reasons does your book identify for the economic “miracle” for Western Europe during the
1950’s? comment on each of the following factors:
a. American aide
b.
Keynesian economics
c.
lower wages
d.
formation of a common market
What was the European Coal and steel Community (1952)?
a.
Who is credited for its development?
b.
Which six countries belonged to this organization?
5. How did the Treaty of Rome (1958) change the Coal and Steel Community?
6.
7.
8.
Why did Charles De Gaulle come to power in France in 1958?
a.
How did he view American involvement in NATO?
b.
How did he view British involvement in the European Common Market?
Most of the decolonization process for Europe and her colonies was peaceful. There are however
examples of struggles over the issue of decolonization. Briefly discuss the experiences of the
following colonies and mother countries:
a. India/Great Britain:
b.
Vietnam/France
c.
Algeria/France
What was the experience of Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt?
Tuesday 4/7/15
1003-1007
1. Even though Russia lost millions of soldiers and civilians in World War II, some Russians saw
World War II as the best period in Russian history. Why?
2.
Did that good feeling of WWII in the soviet union remain after the war had ended? Why or Why
not?
3.
Which was the only Eastern European communist leader that was able to resist soviet domination?
4.
Why was Laventri Beria shot?
5.
What did Krushchev talk about in his “secret speech”?
6.
In what ways did Krushchev reform soviet society?
7.
How does Boris Pasternak’s release of the novel “Dr. Zhivago” show the differences between
Stalinist Russia and Russia under Krushchev?
8.
What was significant about Aleksander Solzhenitsyn’s book “One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich”?
9.
Define the following terms:
a. De-Stalinization
b.
“peaceful coexistence”
10. Who was Walter Ulbricht and what happened in East Germany in 1953? (Video from Yesterday)
11. What occurred in Poland in 1956?
a.
Who was Wladslaw Gomulka?
12. What happened in Hungary in 1956?
a.
Who was Imre Nagy?
13. What reasons does your text give for the Conservative opposition to Krushchev in the Soviet
Union?
14. Who was Alexander Dubcek?
a.
What was the Prague Spring?
b.
What was meant by Socialism with a human face?
15. Was the outcome of reform in Czechoslovakia more like that of Poland in 1956 or Hungary in
1956?
16. What was the Brezhnev Doctrine?
Wednesday 4/8/15
1007-1014
New Roles for women section on page 1010
1. According to the text what was one of the most significant transformations of the Cold War
era?
2. How had the demands of motherhood changed by the 1970’s?
3. What does figure 30.1 show us?
4. What pressures were put on the University system in the late 1960’s?
5. What were the three main demands of the students in Paris in 1968?
a.
b.
c.
6.
How did Charles De Gaulle respond to the student uprisings?
Thursday April 9, 2015
From the Détente or Cold war section
1.
How does your book define the word Détente?
2.
Was West German (FRG) Chancellor Willy Brandt in favor of Détente?
3.
a.
What symbolic act demonstrated Brandt’s position on Détente?
b.
What was the meaning of Brandt’s imaginative formula of “two German states within
one German nation”?
The Helsinki Accords (1975) are considered the high point of the policy of Détente. Which
countries agreed to the Helsinki Accords?
a.
What items were agreed to in the Helsinki Accords?
b.
The Helsinki Accords are similar to this German/French agreement of 1925.
4.
What did the Soviets do in 1979 that arguably brought the period of Détente?
5.
For what three reasons did the Women’s movement take off in the 1970’s?
a.
b.
c.
6.
Tell me about Simone de Beavouir, how was she an existentialist, what was the point of her book
“the Second Sex”. In addition to this section read the Listening to the Past on pages 1024-1025.
7.
Who was Betty Friedan? What did she write? What organization did she form?
8.
Which European country does your book identify as radically changing its view of the place of
women in society?
9.
Why did the US go off of the Gold Standard in 1971?
10. what is OPEC?
11. Why did Gas prices rise dramatically in:
a.
1973
b.
1979
12. Where was the US on the misery index in 1982? (this was the same year that Mr. Liem graduated
from High School).
a.
What does that number mean?
Friday 4/10/15
Pgs. 1027-1034
1.
Identify one event that would be associated with the “re-Stalinization” of the USSR between 1964
and 1982.
2.
Why is Aleksander Solzhenitsyn mentioned in your book?
3.
For which country did Stalin say introducing Communism was like putting a saddle on a cow?
A.
What did Gomulka do in that country in 1956?
4.
According to your book, what was the “real Polish miracle”?
5.
What happened at the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk?
6.
Which workers demands were accepted by the Polish government in Gdansk agreement?
7.
Lech Walesa became the leader of the democratic free trade union called
______________________.
A.
What year was this?
8.
What happened to the Solidarity Union in December 1981?
9.
“Mikhail Gorbachev’s initiatives brought _________________ and _______________
liberalization and they permitted ______________________ and _________________________________
to triumph spectacularly in the old _________________ empire and eventually in the ________________
itself.”
10.
What policy changes came with the restructuring or Perestroika of the Soviet economy?:
A.
B.
11.
In what ways did the Gorbachev policy of Glasnost go “too far”?
12.
What did Gorbachev’s policy of democratization lead to?
13.
What did Gorbachev do to “repudiate the Brezhnev doctrine”?
Monday 4/13/14
1034-1040
1.
What was the political/social situation in Poland in 1988?
2.
Who became Poland’s first noncommunist leader in August 1989?
3.
How was Poland’s new government’s economic program different from its political program?
4.
When did the Berlin Wall “come down”?
5.
Which of the Soviet republics was the first to declare itself an independent state?
6.
Gorbachev asked Soviet citizens for a new constitution which formally abolished the
____________________ party’s monopoly of political control.
7.
Under the leadership of _________________________ Russia also declared its independence
from the Soviet Union.
8.
Who kidnapped Gorbachev in August 1991?
9.
a.
What three factors were important in the absorption of East Germany into West Germany?
b.
c.
10. How does your book describe the Paris Accord?
Tuesday 4/14/15
1040-1048
1.
Why did Russia’s rapid economic liberalization work so poorly?
2.
What happened to the life expectancy of the average Russian male between 1991 and 1996?
3.
Yeltsin’s economic reforms became viewed by the Russian public to be synonymous with
corruption. This led to the “managed democracy” of)________________________.
a.
What did managed democracy look like?
4.
What happened ion Chechnya?
5.
What was the “velvet revolution”?
6.
What was the “velvet divorce”?
7.
Which three eastern bloc countries joined NATO in 1997?
8.
What was Slobodan Milosevic trying to accomplish after 1989?
9.
In June 1991 both ________________________ and _____________________ declared
independence from Yugoslavia.
10.
What led to the conflict in Bosnia?
11.
what happened at Srebrenica in July 1995?
12. What happened in Kosovo?
Wednesday 4/15/15
Read 1048-1051
Thursday 4/16/15
Friday 4/17/15
Monday 4/20/15
Exam periods 0,1,3,5
Tuesday 4/21/15
Exam periods 2,4,6