AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
CHAPTER 30- The Recovery & Conflict, 1945-1968
Be sure to take the time to read the entire chapter!!!!
Explain what the following events were, who participated in them, and why they
were important:
Berlin Airlift, 1948
Schuman Plan, 1950
Chinese Civil War, 1945-1949
Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961
Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1961
Palestine Partition, 1948
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20 Party Congress of Soviets, 1950
Building of the Berlin Wall, 1961
Define the following key concepts and terms:
Truman Doctrine
managerial class
Détente
Brezhnev Doctrine
Economic nationalism
NATO
“brain drain”
Christian Democrats
Common Market
Identify the following people and explain their significance:
Josip Tito
Leonid Brezhnev
Ho Chi Minh
Chiang Kai-shek
Mahatma Gandhi
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Nikita Krushchev
Getulio Vargas
Mao Zedong
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Fidel Castro
Simone de Beauvoir
Answer the following questions:
1. Describe the dispute between the US and the U.S.S.R. at the end of the War. How and why
did it escalate into a cold war?
2. Account for the Soviet Union's "paranoia" about Germany and vice versa.
3. How did Europe accomplish economic recovery after the War? What factors contributed to its
growth?
4. Describe the steps taken toward European economic unity. What impact does this unity have
on the European and world economy?
5. Was nationalism completely dead in postwar Europe? Who was Charles de Gaulle and what
was his ambition?
6. What impact did the WWII have on peoples' opinions about imperialism and European
empires?
7. Describe the development of nationalism in India compared with that in China.
8. Evaluate Stalin's postwar policy and actions. Why were many Russian nationalists
disappointed in them? How would you judge Stalin's place in Soviet history?
9. Describe the circumstances surrounding Khrushchev's famous 20th Party Congress speech in
1956. What were the results of his policy?
10. What were the reasons for Khrushchev's fall from power and the beginning of the reStalinization of Russia in 1964?
11. Describe life in the Soviet Union after 1964. What were the positive and negative features of
the Soviet state in the Brezhnev era?
12. Why did science become "Big Science" in the postwar era? What is the purpose of Big
Science? How has the rise of Big Science altered the lives of modern scientists?
13. What changes have taken place in the European class structure since the war? Does greater or
less mobility exist? Has the distribution of income remained the same?
14. What were the reasons and outcome of the European student rebellions of the late 1960s?
15. How did the roles of women change during this era? How did this impact the development
of the Women’s Movement?