FREE EUROPEAN HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

PDF Download

FREE EUROPEAN HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT

CHAPTER 30 EXAM QUESTIONS

Actual Qs and Ans Expert-Verified Explanation

This Exam contains:

-Guarantee passing score -84 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation

Question 1: Bosnia-Herzegovina

Answer:

declared its independence in March 1992 and civil war spread there.

Question 2: Basques, ETA

Answer:

ETA in the Basque region of Spain used terrorism in its attempt for independence

Question 3: Chechnya

Answer:

One of the biggest issues of the 1990s and early 2000s was the insurgency in the predominantly Muslim Russian republic.

Question 4: Romania, Nicolae Ceausescu

Answer:

Oppressive dictator Nicolae Ceau?escu was overthrown and assassinated in Dec. 1989 About 1,000 people died as a result of the revolution.

Question 5: Yugoslavia

Answer:

Civil war in this area. Established tighter central control over previously autonomous regions.

Question 6: Slobodan Milosevic

Answer:

sought a Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia

Question 7: Containment

Answer:

By 1947, the US pledged to prevent the further spread of communism.George Kennan (U.S. ambassador to USSR) wrote a memo to President Truman in 1946 claiming that the USSR was out to disrupt the American way of life.

Question 8: Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer:

1962: U.S. demanded Soviets remove their newly installed nuclear missiles from Cuba.Crisis became the closest USSR and US came to nuclear war during the Cold War

Question 9: Revolutions of 1989

Answer:

ended communist control of eastern Europe

Question 10: Kosovo

Answer:

Milosevic attempted to ethnically cleanse Kosovo (province of Serbia) of ethnic-Albanians NATO, led by U.S., bombed Serbia in order to stop the ethnic cleansing

Question 11: Alexander Dubcek

Answer:

elected leader: ushered new period of thaw and rebirth in famous "Prague Spring" of 1968.

Question 12: Algeria

Answer:

Algeria's large French population considered Algeria an integral part of France and did not want the colony to become independent.A bitter war broke out between France and Algerian nationalists.

Question 13: Willy Brandt

Answer:

West German chancellor (1969-1974), began to improve relations with eastern Europe through his "eastern initiative"

Question 14: 20th Party Congress speech

Answer:

Khrushchev took a startling initiative against hard-liners by denouncing Stalin's crimes in a closed session.Secret anti-Stalin speech was probably most influential statement in Russia since Lenin's April Theses in 1917.

Question 15: Truman Doctrine

Answer:

1947 Established the U.S. policy of containment that would last four decades.U.S. gave aid to Greece and Turkey that helped those countries defeat communist insurgencies.

Question 16: West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany)

Answer:

1949, West Germany became an independent country when US, France and Britain gave back each of their zones.Led by Konrad Adenauer

Question 17: détente

Answer:

U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and President Richard Nixon tried to place Brandt's eastern initiatives in broader, American-led framework of reducing East-West tensions in early 1970s.

Question 18: Ostpolitik

Answer:

refers to the normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, or West Germany) and Eastern Europe, particularly the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) beginning in 1969.

Question 19: Warsaw Pact

Answer:

The Soviet Union created this, it provided for collective security for Eastern Bloc countries controlled by the USSR.

Question 20: Helsinki Conference

Answer:

Officially ended World War II by finally legitimizing the Soviet-dictated boundaries of Poland and other east European countries.

Question 21: glasnost

Answer:

Aimed to open Soviet society by introducing free speech and some political liberty, while ending party censorship; more successful than perestroika.

Question 22: Lech Walesa

Answer:

Led the movement "Solidarity"

Question 23: Jean-Marie Le Pen

Answer:

In France, Jean-Marie Le Pen was the most outspoken opponent of both immigration and French integration into the European Union.

Question 24: De-stalinization

Answer:

De-Stalinization resulted in communist reformers and the masses seeking greater liberty and national independence.

Question 25: Dien Bien Phu

Answer:

Japan defeated French forces.