POST WORLD WAR II EXIT QUESTIONS
POST WORLD WAR II EXIT QUESTIONS
SOVIET UNION AND EUROPE
1. Ruler of the Soviet Union from 1927 until 1953: ________________________________________________________
2. Who came to power after Stalin? ____________________________________________________________________
3. What was the name of his major policy? ______________________________________________________________
4. What did the Brezhnev Doctrine state? ________________________________________________________________
5. What area of Europe did the Soviets force to be Communist? ______________________________________________
6. What countries revolted against Communist rule in 1956?_________________________________________________
7. Who was the leader of the Hungarian revolt?___________________________________________________________
8. What country revolted in 1968?______________________________________________________________________
9. Who was the leader of the revolt in Czechoslovakia? ____________________________________________________
10. What was the response by the Soviets to these revolts? __________________________________________________
11. Who became the new leader of the Soviet Union in 1985? _______________________________________________
12. What were some of the changes he made? ____________________________________________________________
13. What is a major problem that faced the Soviet Union? ___________________________________________________
14. The first nation to declare independence from the Soviet Union was? _______________________________________
15. When did the Soviet Union cease to exist? ____________________________________________________________
16. What Russian republic is trying to break away today? ___________________________________________________
17. What breaks out when Gorbachev refuses to follow the Brezhnev Doctrine? _________________________________
18. In Poland, the revolt centered around? _______________________________________________________________
19. What did Czechoslovakia split up into in 1993?________________________________________________________
20. The only nation not to have a peaceful collapse of Communism was?_______________________________________
21. What Cold War symbol was torn down on Nov. 9, 1989? ________________________________________________
22. What happened on Oct. 3, 1990? ___________________________________________________________________
23. Who is the leader of Serbia? _______________________________________________________________________
24. What happens when places like Croatia and Bosnia declare independence from Yugoslavia? ____________________
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25. What is ethnic cleansing? _________________________________________________________________________
26. What ends the war in Bosnia? ______________________________________________________________________
27. Besides Bosnia, where else did the Serbs practice ethnic cleansing? ________________________________________
28. What problem did Great Britain face after WWII? ______________________________________________________
29. How did they deal with it? ________________________________________________________________________
30. What was the problem in Northern Ireland? ___________________________________________________________
31. What person dominated France for 25 years following WWII? ____________________________________________
32. What was his goal for France? How did he go about achieving it? _________________________________________
33. What was the goal of the European Union? ___________________________________________________________
THE MIDDLE EAST
34. Who took power in Egypt in 1953? _________________________________________________________________
35. What did Nasser seize in Egypt that made France and Great Britain angry? __________________________________
36. What nation did the United Nations create in 1948? ____________________________________________________
37. Why was that a problem? _________________________________________________________________________
38. What do several Arab nations do the next day? ________________________________________________________
39. Who wins the Six Day War? _______________________________________________________________________
40. What is the outcome of the Six Day War? ____________________________________________________________
41. What happens at the Munich Olympics in 1972? _______________________________________________________
42. What is OPEC? _________________________________________________________________________________
43. What does OPEC do when it is upset about Western foreign policy in the Middle East? ________________________
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44. What two nations make peace at the Camp David Accords? ______________________________________________
45. What is the goal of the PLO? ______________________________________________________________________
46. What does Hamas do in Israel? _____________________________________________________________________
47. Who becomes the new leader in Iran after an Islamic revolution there? _____________________________________
48. When the U.S. refuses to give up the shah, what do the people of Iran do? ___________________________________
49. How long are the hostages held for? _________________________________________________________________
50. When are the hostages released? ____________________________________________________________________
51. Why does Saddam Hussein invade Iran? _____________________________________________________________
52. What country does Iraq invade in 1990 during the Persian Gulf War? ______________________________________
53. Why did the U.S. call for an invasion of Iraq in 2003? __________________________________________________
54. Why did the U.S. invade Afghanistan in 2001? ________________________________________________________
55. What is the goal of Islamic militants? ________________________________________________________________
ASIA
56. What person helped gain independence for India? ______________________________________________________
57. What two groups don’t get along in British India? ______________________________________________________
58. How did the British solve this problem? ______________________________________________________________
59. What does East Pakistan eventually rename itself? _____________________________________________________
60. What territory are India, Pakistan, and China fighting over? ______________________________________________
61. Who is the Communist leader of Vietnam? ___________________________________________________________
62. What Communist group takes control of Cambodia in 1975? _____________________________________________
63. What is the name of their leader? ___________________________________________________________________
64. Who controls Japan from 1945 to 1952? _____________________________________________________________
65. What did Japan experience after WWII? _____________________________________________________________
66. What is the problem concerning Taiwan? _____________________________________________________________
67. What country said they would declare war if China invades Taiwan? _______________________________________
68. What island did Great Britain give back to China in 1997? _______________________________________________
69. Who is the leader when China becomes Communist in 1949? _____________________________________________
70. What happens in the Great Leap Forward? ____________________________________________________________
71. What did the Great Proletarian Revolution try to eliminate? ______________________________________________
72. After Mao, who becomes the new Communist leader in China? ___________________________________________
73. Who is protesting in the Tiananmen Square in 1989? ___________________________________________________
74. What are the students calling for? __________________________________________________________________
75. What is the outcome of the Tiananmen Square Massacre? _______________________________________________
76. What policy does the Chinese gov’t implement to deal with a growing population? ___________________________
NORTH AMERICA
77. What does the U.S. experience after WWII? __________________________________________________________
78. Who led the Red Scare in the U.S.? _________________________________________________________________
79. What was everyone afraid about in the Red Scare? _____________________________________________________
80. President Kennedy saw the beginnings of? ____________________________________________________________
81. What happened to President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963? ________________________________________________
82. Who is believed to have assassinated him? ___________________________________________________________
83. What president sent troops to Vietnam? ______________________________________________________________
84. What president pulled troops out of Vietnam? _________________________________________________________
85. What happened in the Watergate Scandal? ____________________________________________________________
86. What president resigned as a result of the Watergate Scandal? ____________________________________________
87. What president had the largest peacetime military build-up? ______________________________________________
88. NAFTA is a trade agreement between what three countries? ______________________________________________
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