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Reading Guide:Chapter 29: The Cold War Eraand the Emergence of a New Europe
The Emergence of the Cold War
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What is the traditional view and emerging view of the cause of the Cold War?
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How did American decisions after World War II help cause the Cold War?Containment in American Foreign Policy?
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Containment
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The Truman Doctrine
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The Marshall Plan
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How did the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan help establish the US and Soviet Union as adversaries?Soviet Domination of Eastern Europe
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What was Stalin's response to Western containment policy?
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How was Czechoslovakia brought under Soviet control?
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What policies were force-adopted by governments underthe influence of the Soviet union?
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Marshall Josip Tito (1892-1980)The Postwar Division of Germany
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How did the West and Soviet Union differ in their Germanpolicy?
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What was the Berlin Blockade? What was the responsefrom the West?NATO and the Warsaw Pact
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NATO
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Warsaw PactThe Creation of the State of Israel
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The Balfour Declaration
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Zionism
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UN Declaration
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How did the establishment of Israel play into Cold War Tensions?The Korean War
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What issues dominated in the Korean peninsula after World War II?
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How did the Korean War play into Cold War Tensions?
The Khrushchev Era in the Soviet Union
Khrushchev's Domestic Policies
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How did the free exchange of idea change under Khrushchev?
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How did Khrushchev criticize Stalin's regime?
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The Secret Speech of 1956Three Crises of 1856
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Tito in 1972 (Photo: National Archives)
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How did the Suez Intervention show thatworld power had shifted?
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How did the election of WladyslawGomulka expose tensions between Polandand the USSR?
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How did the Hungarian uprising exposetensions between Hungary and the USSR?
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What was the result of these threesituations on Cold War power?
Later Cold War Confrontations
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Sputnik
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US/Soviet U-2 IncidentThe Berlin Wall
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What was the purpose of the wall? Whatdid it represent?The Cuban Missile Crisis
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What caused the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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What prevented the Crisis from turning the Cold War hot?
The Brezhenev Era
1968: The Invasion of Czechoslovakia
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Prague Spring
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How did Brezhenev respond to the Prague Spring?
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What is the Brezhenev Doctrine?The United States and Detente
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How did US/USSR policy change under Nixon?
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How did US/USSR policy change under Ford?
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How did US/USSR policy change under Carter?The Invasion of Afghanistan
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Why did the USSR invade Afghanistan?
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Was was the impact on the USSR? … the Cold War?Communism and Solidarity in Poland
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Pope John Paul II
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Lech Walesa
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How did the Polish Communist change during the 1980s?Relations with the Reagan Administration
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What actions did the Reagan Administration make to add to Cold War tensions? What was the result?
Decolonization: The European Retreat from Empire
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What broad factors lead to decolonization?India
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Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948)
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Indian National Congress
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Nikita Khrushchev and JFK (Photo: National ParkServices)Lech Walesa (Photo: Slawek)
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What events were coupled with the Indian struggle for independence?
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How did the partition between Indian and Pakistan cause further conflicts in the region?Further British Retreat from Empire
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For what reasons did Britain continue to decolonize after India?
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What was the results of those movements?
The Turmoil of French Decolonization
France and Algeria
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What was the status of Algeria at the end of World WarII?
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National Liberation Front
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What impact of the referendum on Algerianindependence?France and Vietnam
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Ho Chi Minh
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How was the Vietnam issue connected to France duringWWII?
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How did events of the Vietnamese civil war lead to asplit Vietnam?Vietnam Drawn into the Cold War
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How did Vietnam become a Cold War front?Direct United States Involvement
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What did the United States get involved directly in theconflict? What ended that?
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Vietnamization
The Collapse of European Communism
Gorbachev Attempts to Reform the Soviet Union
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What reforms did Gorbachev put into place to modernize the Soviet Union?
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How did Gorbachev's policies weaken the resolve of Soviet strength overits own people?1989: Revolution in Eastern Eastern Europe
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Poland: Solidarity
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Hungary
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East Germany/German Reunification
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Czechoslovakia: The Velvet Revolution
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Romanic: The end of Nicholae CeausescuThe Collapse of the Soviet Union
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What events lead to the end of Communist Party control the USSR?
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Boris Yeltsin
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How did parts of the Soviet Union break away from the mother country?
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What was the final blow to the Communist Party?The Yeltsin Decade and Putin
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What was the issues in dismantling the Soviet economy and replacing itwith a modern economy?
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Ho Chi Minh (Photo: Miguel Monjas)Vladimir Putin (Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko)
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