Chapter 29 Study Guide ellenwood
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
