Describe the clash between The United States and The Soviet Union in the 1950s:
I. After WWII
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How did Western Europe adjust to the loss of world dominance after the war?
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Who were the primary p[layers in the Cold war?
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How did Europe fit in?
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Identify and explain the significance:
o Cold War
o Eastern Bloc
o Harry Truman
o Iron Curtain
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What was the Marshall plan and how did it cause tension between the US and
USSR?
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What type of Alliance was NATO? What was its goal?
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What was the Warsaw pact, and what was it in response to?
II. The Resurgence of Western Europe
 Describe Europe’s economic and political innovations after WWII:
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Describe the formation of European unity after WWII:
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Describe the economic grow in Europe after WWII:
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What is meant by “liberal Democracy “ in thgis context?
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Identify the Welfare state and explain its importance:
o What is a technocrat?
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Describe campus unrest:
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Describe the Green Movement:
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Identify the European Union and explain its importance:
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Describe the convergence of Western Europe and the United States in the second
half of the 20th century:
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What was the fate of the former European dominions:
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What is meant by the “U.S” century?
III. Culture and Society in the West
 Describe post-war social distinctions in the west:
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Describe the beginnings of the women’s revolution:
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Describe the shifts in society that led to the women’s revolution:
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Describe 2nd wave(postwar) feminism:
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Describe the significance of the work of Watson and Crick:
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What was the point of the work of Andy Warhol?
IV. Eastern Europe after WWII
 How did The Soviet Union become a super Power?
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What is meant by a “soviet empire” in eastern Europe?
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Describe the significance of the Berlin Wall:
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What was the solidarity movement:
V. Soviet Culture:
 Describe the effects of rapid industrialization in the Soviet Union:
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What was the Soviet attitude toward religion?
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How did the Soviet state react to creativity?
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Identify and explain the significance of Alexander Solzhenitsyn:
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How did the soviet economy create industrialization?
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What is meant by de-Stalinization?
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Identify Nikita Khrushchev:
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How was the Soviet state kept together?
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What were the reasons for its impending collapse?