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AP World History Ch 31 Reading Study Guide #1 P. 752-764
Notecards:
· Cold War
· Iron Curtain
· Marshall Plan
· NATO
· Warsaw Pact
· Welfare State
· Green Movement
· European Union
1. Name the various groups involved in protest against nuclear testing. Pg. 752
2. When was above-ground testing halted by moratorium? By treaty? Pg. 752
3. Analyze the Soviet propaganda poster on Pg. 753. What is the message? Is it hypocritical?
(Timeline Pg. 754)
4. When was the Soviet take-over of Eastern Europe? ______
5. When did Stalin die? ______
6. When was the European Common Market established (Eventual EU)? ______
7. When was the Berlin Wall built? ______
8. What two year in the 70s had oil crises? ______
9. What were the years in power of Reagan? ______Gorbachev?______
10. When did the Berlin Wall come down? ______
11. When was the Euro introduced? ______
12. What were the two larger changes provoked by the end of WWII? Pg. 753
13. In what two areas did the French encounter difficult hanging onto imperial holdings? Pg. 753
14. What was the “Cold War”? Pg. 753
15. What was the “Eastern Bloc”? Pg. 754
16. Why did Truman take a more assertive stance toward the Soviet Union? Pg. 754
17. Coined by Winston Churchill, what does the term “Iron Curtain” mean? Pg. 754
18. What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan? Pg. 754
19. What lead to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin? What was the Berlin Airlift? Pg. 754-755
20. What was (and still is) NATO? Pg. 755
21. What was the Warsaw Pact? Pg. 755
22. How did the Soviet ‘influence’ Western Europe? Pg. 755
23. Where did the focus of the Cold War shift after the 1950s? Pg. 755
24. When did France drop out of NATO? Why? Pg. 755
25. What was the Christian Democratic movement in Western Europe? Pg. 756
26. How did the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) come about? Pg. 756
27. What was the “welfare state”? Pg. 756
28. What program in the United States mirrored these European efforts? Pg. 756
29. What is a “technocrat”? Pg. 757
30. What was the purpose of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States? Pg. 758
31. Why did American students stage campus protests in the 1960s? Pg. 758
32. What was (is) the Green Movement? Pg. 758
33. What was British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s main goal in office? Pg. 758
34. How did the Marshall Plan and NATO encourage Europeans to work together? Pg. 758
35. What was the European Economic Community? What is the EU? Pg. 759
36. How have these arrangements led to economic expansion and (mostly) increased prosperity? Pg. 761
37. What is the “affluent society”? Pg. 761
(Thinking Historically, The United States & Western Europe: Convergence and Complexity: Document Pg. 760
38. How do the United States and Western Europe differ… Document Pg.760
a. …on economic issues?
b. …on religious participation?
c. …on attitudes toward vacation and leisure?
d. …on teen sexuality?
39. Describe the close economic relationship between Canada and the US post WWII. Pg. 762
40. Where did Australia and New Zealand direct their economic energies & relationships post WWII? Pg. 762
41. Why did the United States step up to the “Superpower” role and status immediately after WWII? Pg. 763
42. What was (is) the purpose of the Defense Department? The Central Intelligence Agency? Pg. 763
43. What was Eisenhower’s policy toward the Soviet Union? Pg. 763
44. Briefly describe US activities in Cuba? Pg. 763
45. Briefly describe the US involvement in Vietnam. How did this go badly for the United States? Pg. 764
46. How did Ronald Reagan lead a re-invigorated US foreign policy in the 1980s? Pg. 764
47. How did the US come to be the world sole superpower by the 1990s? Pg. 764
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Borrowed from Mr. Walker