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Winston Churchill

Lech Walesa

Vaclav Havel

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Germany Lenin Stalin WWII Cold War

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In this 1938 event, the Nazis attacked Jewish synagogues and businesses and

beat up and arrested many Jews.

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What is Kristallnacht

(“Night of Broken Glass”)?

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This 1934 event resulted in Hitler’s

destruction of the S.A. (at the request of the

German military).

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What is the “Night of Long

Knives”?

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This idea from Mein Kampf called for

Germany to conquer lands in eastern Europe to expand Germany’s

empire.

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What is “lebensraum”

(“living space”)?

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These laws gave Hitler dictatorial power in

Germany beginning in 1934.

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What are the Enabling Acts?

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This 1941 meeting resulted in the “Final

Solution” to the Jewish question.

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What is the Wannsee

Conference?

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Lenin was forced to accept some

capitalistic measures in the early 1920s by

instituting this program.

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What is the NEP (New Economic

Policy)?

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During the Russian Civil War, this became

the first type of communism practiced

in the Soviet Union between 1918 and

1920.

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What is war communism?

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Lenin oppressed opponents through

the use of this secret police organization.

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What is the Cheka?

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This leader of the Red Army had more

philosophically in common with Lenin

than did Stalin.

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Who is Leon Trotsky?

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This 20th-century political philosophy claims a

communist society must first be controlled by a

small group of professional revolutionary

elites.

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What is Marxist-

Leninism?

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In order to catch up to the West

industrially, Stalin instituted the first of these in 1928.

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What is the Five-Year Plan?

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This was Stalin’s program to

communize the countryside and

increase agricultural productivity.

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What is collectivizatio

n?

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Stalin staged these events in the 1930s to rid his government of

Old Bolsheviks.

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What are show trials or purges?

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Millions of Soviet citizens died in

these Soviet camps.

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What are gulags?

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Unlike Trotsky who believed in an international

communist revolution, Stalin believed in this

policy by the mid-1920s.

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What is “Socialism in

One Country”?

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This 1942-43 battle was the turning

point of the war in Eastern Europe.

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What is Stalingrad?

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This June, 1944 battle was the

turning point of the war in western

Europe.

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What is D-Day (invasion of Normandy)?

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This 1945 war-time conference stated that

Germany would be divided into four zones

and that a United Nations would be

created.

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What is the Yalta

Conference?

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This August, 1939 agreement opened the

way for Germany’s invasion of Poland and

the division of that country with the USSR.

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What is the German-Soviet Non-Aggression

Pact?

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This 1938 conference represented the height

of appeasement and gave part of

Czechoslovakia to Germany.

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What is the Munich

Conference?

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Churchill created this metaphor for the line separating communist eastern Europe with

western Europe.

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What is the “Iron

Curtain”?

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This Soviet leader improved relations with the U.S. in the 1980s,

largely due to his policies of Glasnost and

Perestroika.

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Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?

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This Soviet leader denounced Stalin in a

secret 1956 Communist Party

meeting.

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Who is Nikita Khrushchev?

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These two collective security

organizations opposed each other during the Cold War.

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What are NATO and the Warsaw

Pact?

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This U.S. economic policy gave millions of

dollars to European countries after World War II, paving the way

for the “economic miracle.”

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What is the Marshall Plan

(Economic Recovery Program)?

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This 1991 treaty created the European Union and the use of

a single currency.

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What is the Maastricht

Treaty?

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This treaty created the European

Economic Community in

1957.

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What is the Treaty of Rome?

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This 1980s British prime minister opposed

Britain’s entry into the European Union

believing that it would diminish England’s

economy and culture.

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Who is Margaret Thatcher?

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This French president opposed Britain’s

entry into the EEC in the 1960s.

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Who is Charles de Gaulle?

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This plan was put forth buy two Frenchmen in

1950 to begin integrating the

economies of several countries.

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What is the Schumann Plan?

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Il Duce Eastern Bloc

Cold War Redux

Decoloni-zation

Social Issues

Post-1991

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This group of para-military thugs

provided the muscle for Mussolini’s rise to

power.

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What are the Black Shirts?

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In 1935, Mussolini ordered the invasion of this African nation as payback for a pre-

WWI defeat.

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What is Ethiopia?

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This 1922 event resulted in

Mussolini taking power in the

Kingdom of Italy.

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What is the March on Rome?

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In this 1929 deal, Mussolini gave the Vatican sovereignty

while the pope agreed to stay largely out of Italy’s

political matters.

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What is the Lateran Pact?

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Mussolini organized this type of state,

where various economic interests in the country function collectively for the benefit of the state.

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What is the corporate

state?

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This 1956 uprising against Soviet control,

led in part by Imre Nagy, resulted in a

deadly crackdown by Soviet troops.

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What is the Hungarian uprising?

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The 1968 democratic revolt against

communist domination in Czechoslovakia was often referred to by

this term.

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What is Prague Spring?

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This workers’ organization, led by

Lech Walesa, emerged in the early 1980s

seeking democratic reforms in Poland.

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What is Solidarity?

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In response to eastern European uprisings, this new policy was

declared by the Soviet leadership in 1968.

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What is the Brezhnev Doctrine?

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Alexander Dubcek sought to develop this brand of socialism in

Czechoslovakia during the 1968 uprising

there.

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What is “socialism with a human face”?

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This 1962 conflict brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of

nuclear war.

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What is the Cuban Missile

Crisis?

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This 1957 Soviet technological

innovation began the “space race.”

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What is sputnik?

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This 1947 American containment policy

declared that money would be used to

prevent communist expansion. (It was first

used in Greece and Turkey.)

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What is the Truman

Doctrine?

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This U.S. policy in the 1970s sought to

improve relations with the Soviet Union and

China.

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What is détente?

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This West German chancellor sought to

improve relations with East Germany through

his Ostpolitik.

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Who is Willy Brandt?

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This Indian leader used non-violent/passive resistance to gain

India’s independence from Great Britain.

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Who is Mahatma Gandhi?

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In 1954, Ho Chi Minh led his forces to victory

over French forces in this colonial country.

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What is Vietnam?

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This north African country fought so well for its independence

that the French Fourth Republic actually fell in

1962.

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What is Algeria?

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Though Britain gave virtually all of its African

colonies their independence

peacefully, these former colonies decided to join this British organization.

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What is the British

Commonwealth of Nations?

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This 1956 crisis resulted in Egypt gaining

effective control over all its territory, ending Britain’s long time

control there.

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What is the Suez Canal

Crisis?

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A major expression of the counterculture

occurred in this country when students in 1968 revolted, leading to a

general strike.

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What is France?

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This 1962-65 convention resulted in several reforms in the Catholic church that

sought to attract new adherents.

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What is the Second Vatican

Council?

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Right-wing politicians grew concerned about these immigrants who

came to Europe working for low wages. (Hint: the

answer is NOT a country.)

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Who are “Guest Workers.”

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This feminist wrote a seminal work in 1949:

The Second Sex

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Who is Simone de Beauvoir?

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This post-war phenomenon concerned

European leaders as they were losing some

of their best and brightest to America.

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What is the “Brain Drain”?

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This Russian president effectively destroyed

the Soviet Union when he demanded Russia’s independence in 1991.

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Who is Boris Yeltsin?

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This former-Yugoslavian state experienced the “ethnic cleansing” of

Muslims and a genocide at the hands of Serbian

leaders.

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What is Bosnia-

Herzegovina?

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This Serbian leader was arrested for war

crimes and crimes against humanity due to alleged atrocities in

the 1990s.

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Who is Slobodan Milosevic?

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This Serbian province almost became the site of another genocide in

1999 before NATO forces began bombing

Serbia.

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What is Kosovo?

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This former KGB chief became president of

the Russian Federation in 1999 and began to

centralize control in the 2000s.

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Who is Vladimir Putin?

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These six nations were the first to belong to

the ECSC and the EEC.

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