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Who was Winston Churchill?

British Prime Minister

In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled where?

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas

What was the site of a bloody insurgency in Russia?

Chechnya

Eastern Europe was what?

Communist

Chechnya was during the transitions from what?

Communist to a more democratic state

Western Europe was what?

Democratic

In 1992 the nations of Europe established what?

European Union (EU)

What the belief that the country possessed chemical and biological weapons true or false?

False

Why did Mikhail Gorbachev write the Perestroika?

He was calling for economic and political reform in the Soviet Union by writing the Perestroika

Formula

Land=Money=Power

Perestroika (written by)

Mikhail Gorbachev

"Perestroika is an urgent necessity...This society is ripe for change. It has long been yearning for it. Any delay in beginning perestroika could [lead] to...serious social, economic and political crisis."

Mikhail Gorbachev, 1987

The Warsaw Pact formed in response to the formation of what (US and Western European countries)?

NATO

What was fought to free Kuwait?

Persian Gulf War

What divided Germany into four zones of occupation (US, GB, and France, and the east was Russia)?

Potsdam Conference

Who was Chile's democratically elected leader?

Salvador Allende

Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?

Soviet Priemer

Who received the largest shares of German reparations after WW2?

Soviet Union

As a result of what, the US congress agreed to send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Greece and Turkey?

Truman Doctrine

This was a military alliance (Eastern European countries)

Warsaw Pact

Who introduced the iron curtain?

Winston Churchill

What was the Truman Doctrine?

a pledge announced by the US in 1947 to provide economic and military aid to oppose the spread of communism

The Marshall Plan promoted political stability in Western Europe by what?

aiding economic recovery

What was the rise of birthrates known as?

baby boom

The US led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was based on the belief of what?

belief that the country possessed chemical and biological weapons

Who the young people (most noted in the 1960s) who adopted new styles of clothing and behavior?

counterculture

Who were the hippies?

counterculture

Shows that what is spreading throughout South America?

democracy

What was the iron curtain used for?

describing the division of Europe

What did the Truman Doctrine provide?

economic and military aid

The Marshall Plan promoted what in Western Europe?

economic stability

Serbs used the policy of ethnic cleansing to try and do what during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

eliminate Bosnian Muslims from society

During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbs used a policy of what?

ethnic cleansing

What eliminated Bosnian Muslims from society?

ethnic cleansing

One effect of the arms race was what?

ever-present threat of nuclear war

What were these the west was US, GB, and France, and the east was Russia's.

four zones of occupation

As a result of the Truman Doctrine, the US congress agreed to send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Greece and Turkey. Why?

help free peoples resist takeover by "armed minority or outside pressures"

As a result of the Truman Doctrine, the US congress agreed to send what in aid to Greece and Turkey?

hundreds of millions of dollars

An Iron Curtain was a what used by British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill?

image (imaginary line dividing countries)

Iron Curtain definition

imaginary line dividing Western and Eastern Europe

The Soviet Union received the what of German reparations after WW2?

largest shares

The US experienced a severe economic slowdown in the 1970s because of the cost of energy dramatically increased. Explain the importance of oil from the Middle East.

led to a steep spike in the cost of energy which drove the prices of other goods higher

The end of communism and the introduction of what in Eastern Europe led to rising immigration from Eastern Europe to Western Europe

market reforms

The GI (government issue) bill provided money that helped who?

millions of veterans attend college

The GI bill provided what that helped the millions of veterans attend college?

money

Perestroika (definition)

new thinking of our country and the world, 1987

Why was the US alarmed by the Soviet control of Eastern Europe at the end of WW2?

officials believed Soviet expansion would not stop at Eastern Europe

The Persian Gulf War fought to free Kuwait and protect what?

oil supplies

What was Mikhail Gorbachev's policy?

perestroika

Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of perestroika sought to what?

reconstruct the Soviet economic and political system

The end of communism and the introduction of market reform in Eastern Europe has led to what?

rising immigration from Eastern Europe to Western Europe

In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that the what had to end?

segregation of public schools

The US experienced what in the 1970s because the cost of energy dramatically increased?

severe economic slowdown

If the belief that the country possessed chemical and biological weapons in untrue why are we still sending money to Iraq and why have we not taken all military aid out of Iraq?

so Iraq can be rebuild

This was Poland's (communist) anti-government protest movement?

solidarity

Meaning of segregation

the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things or being set apart

The US experienced a severe economic slowdown in the 1970s because of what?

the cost of energy dramatically increased

The baby boom was the what?

the rise in birthrates after WW2

What did the Truman Doctrine oppose?

the spread of communism

What was the point of establishing the European Union?

to create a single economic unit that could compete with the US


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