Sino-Soviet Relations, Chapter 11

Key Terms to Define:

SinoCCPGMD

Revisionist (NOT historiography term)GLFCultural Revolution

Brezhnev DoctrineGang of Four

Guiding Questions:

  1. What was the main difference between Stalin and Mao?
  2. What were Mao’s primary complaints against Khrushchev?
  3. How and why did Mao sabotage Khrushchev’s visit to China?
  4. What was the dispute over Taiwan and how serious was it?
  5. What were the outcomes of the Great Leap Forward (and when did it happen)?
  6. Why did Sino-Soviet relations suffer in 1961?
  7. What was the Cultural Revolution? What were its goals? What were the outcomes?
  8. How did Mao & Khrushchev differ on the issue of nuclear weapons?
  9. Why did the Soviets invade Czechoslovakia (read the purple section)?
  10. How did the Chinese & Soviet approaches to Vietnam differ?
  11. Why did tensions relax in the 1980s and ‘90s?
  12. What issues remained in the 1980s?
  13. Why did Sino-Soviet relations improve under Deng Xiaoping and Gorbachev?
  14. What happened at Tiananmen Square (time, summary, effects)?

Sino-American Relations, Chapter 12

Key Terms to Define:

SinoCultural GenocidePanmonjun Amnesty

SEATOdétente (review)GLF

tripolar conflict (p. 146)Cultural Revolution

Guiding Questions:

  1. What was the dispute over Taiwan and how serious was it?
  2. How did the Korean War affect China?
  3. How did the US use Mao’s failure of the Great Leap Forward to its advantage?
  4. What was the dispute over Taiwan and how serious was it?
  5. What were China’s motives in helping other nations to decolonize?
  6. Why was the concern over the Cultural Revolution?
  7. Why did the US want to improve relations in the 1970s?
  8. Why did China want to improve relations in the 1970s?
  9. What did each side gain from détente?
  10. What happened at Tiananmen Square (time, summary, effects)?
  11. Why didn’t the US take a stronger stand against the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
  12. Describe the tripolar conflict at the end of the Cold War.

The United Nations, Chapter 14

Key Terms to Define:

collective securityboycottcoup

NATO

Guiding Questions:

  1. What are the main functions of the UN?
  2. What are the three key principles of the UN?
  3. How did US & Soviet expectations of the UN differ?
  4. What was the effect of the Korean War on the perception of the UN’s effectiveness?
  5. What was the Suez Canal Crisis (briefly describe, year)?
  6. What was the significance of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 (also briefly describe)?
  7. The Congo (very complex!):
  8. Why were many newly independent states unprepared for independence?
  9. What were the almost-immediate problems faced by the new government under Lumumba and Kasavubu?
  10. Why did the US & USSR likely refer Congolese leaders to the UN?
  11. Where in Africa was the Congo Republic?
  12. How involved did the UN become in the conflict?
  13. What were American and Soviet impressions of the UN’s role in the conflict?
  14. How and why did the conflict widen in 1960?
  15. What is the debate around the UN’s role after Katanga took power?
  16. How did the conflict end and what were its effects?
  17. Why was the Security Council often deadlocked?
  18. How did the Superpowers continue to affect the UN even after the Cold War ended (hint: look at Somalia & Bosnia case studies)?
  19. Which had a greater impact, the Cold War on the UN or the UN on the Cold War? Why? (more of an essay question – just be thinking about it)

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Chapter 15

Key Terms to Define:

Decolonizationneo-colonialism

Guiding Questions:

  1. ***Study the map on page 188***
  2. What three things initially linked the NAM?
  3. When & who first used the term NAM?
  4. In this context, what does the term Third World mean (use yellow box)?
  5. Why was admission in NAM based upon a promise not to join an alliance with either major superpower?
  6. What effect did NAM have on the UN?
  7. How did Marshal Tito demonstrate NAM principles?
  8. Does it make sense that China and Cuba joined NAM (more of an opinion essay question – just think about it)?
  9. What happened in the Suez Canal Crisis (year, summary, Nasser’s demonstration of NAM principles)?
  10. Why did NAM lose power between the 1960s and 1990s?
  11. Describe the split over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that occurred among NAM members.

Challenges to Soviet Control, Chapter 16

Key Terms to Define:

Iron Curtain (review)jihadsatellite states

Carter Doctrine (p. 206)mujahedin (p. 205-206)Cominform

Guiding Questions:

  1. ***Study the maps on pages 196 and 205***
  2. How did the USSR use satellite states?
  3. What were the effects of the 1948 split between the USSR & Yugoslavia?
  4. Why were the 1953 East German riots significant?
  5. Are Khrushchev’s actions in Poland, Hungary, & Yugoslavia consistent? Why or why not? (more of an opinion essay question – don’t have to answer, but do consider)
  6. What was the US response to the Hungarian Uprising?
  7. What was the Prague Spring and what were its effects?
  8. What was the Brezhnev Doctrine?
  9. How were international relations affected by the Czech invasion?
  10. Who is Lech Walesa and what is Solidarity?
  11. How did the late ‘70s and early ‘80s affect détente?
  12. Afghanistan:
  13. Why did the Soviets replace Amin?
  14. When did Afghanistan tensions rise?
  15. Why did the USSR invade?
  16. How did the US perceive the invasion?
  17. What role did the US play in Afghanistan?
  18. When and why did the Soviets leave?
  19. How did the Afghanistan conflict contribute to the start of a second Cold War in the early 1980s?