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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