Cold War Developments: East vs. West
Have a wonderful spring break answering these questions
It will be collected on Monday, April 12th
The West: The United States, Europe and Allies
Cold War Developments (735-737)
1. What were the key reasons for Cold War?
2. What strategies did the West and US use to counter Soviet Threats?
3. What impacts did the Cold War have upon Western European society?
Reconstructing Stable Governments (737-740)
4. Summarize the political developments of Western Europe that
created greater stability in the post-WW II period
5. What is a welfare state and why did they develop in Western
European nations and the US?
6. Explain the power of public protest in Western Europe and the US.
Goals? Motivations? Participants?
Unity (740)
7. What strategies did Western Europe use to limit the nationalistic
rivalries that had plagued that region before WWII?
8. What were the major achievements for the Common Market/European
Union (EU) by 2005?
Economic Expansion (740-743)
9. What were the key economic trends of Cold War in Western Europe in
the following eras: agriculture, industrial production, and the service
sector?
10. Western society of the Cold War era has often times between
referred to as the “affluent society”. What is meant by this?
11. What groups in Western Europe and the US missed out on this
affluent society? Why?
US Century (744-745)
12. What earned the US the title of “Superpower”?
13. What were the foreign policy goals of America during the Cold War?
(Truman Doctrine and Containment)
14. What were the successes of America’s Containment Policy? The
failure?
Women’s Revolution (746-748)
15. Identify the new patterns of life for women that developed after
WWII
16. How did women’s views of sex and their bodies begin to alter during
the post WWII era?
17. What were negative developments in family life during this period?
18. What prompted the new feminism movement?
Western Culture (748-750)
19. What were major accomplishments of the Western powers in science
20. Describe trends in “modern” art.
21. What popular culture trends were in fashion during the Cold War era
and shaped Western society on both sides of the Atlantic, especially
among adolescents?
The East: USSR and Allies
Soviet Power (750-752)
22. What earned the USSR the title of Superpower?
23. In what ways did Eastern Europe come under the dominance of the
USSR after WWII?
24. How did Soviet influence change Eastern Europe? (Poland, Czech, and
Bulgaria)
Domestic Policy and Culture (753-754)
25. What tools did the Soviet government use to influence the hearts and
minds of Russia’s people?
26. In what ways did traditional Russian Culture change during the era of
Soviet control?
27. How did the sciences from a new focus in communist Russia?
Economy (754-755)
28. What were the features of Industrialization under the Soviet
government’s direction?
29. What were the negative impacts of Soviet economic developments?
30. Describe the role of women in Soviet society.
De-Stalinization (755-758)
31. How did the leadership of Khrushchev mark a shift in the style of
soviet rule by Stalin? How was it similar?
32. In what ways did Khrushchev and his successors attempt to challenge
the superpower status of the US?
33. What were the major problems that the Soviet Union faced from the
1950’s through the late 1980s?