Cold War and Decolonization

Question 1

Most important feminist voice, mid-20th century, wrote The Second Sex, published in France 1949

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Simone de Beauvoir

Question 2

Means "a struggle," however typically references a holy war by Muslim extremists

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jihad

Question 3

By 1994, the Soviets found themselves in a war in the Islamic province

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Chechnya

Question 4

The Fifth Republic began in 1958 voted this person as president

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Charles De Gaulle

Question 5

Gandhi was a lawyer and intrigued by Western thinkers, he learned passive resistance from...

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Henry David Thoreau

Question 6

The National Liberation Front, FLN, were nationalists that were involved insurrections here

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Algeria

Question 7

Boris Yeltsin becomes the dominant Soviet political figure after

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Gorbachev is removed by a coup

Question 8

Political figure, reasserts the power of the markets and resisting the power of labor unions

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Margaret Thatcher

Question 9

The first major European nation to create a welfare state under the Labour party was

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Britain

Question 10

Intellectuals were somewhat freer under Khrushchev, examples was the author of Dr. Zhivago

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Boris Pasternak

Question 11

In 1956, the Suez Intervention, began when this Egyptian president nationalized the canal

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

Question 12

Khrushchev, in his Secret Speech in 1956 denounces

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Stalin

Question 13

One notable leader of the anticolonial movement in India was, known for nonviolence

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Mohandas Gandhi

Question 14

In 1947, when the British leave India, it is paritioned into the states of

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India and Pakistan

Question 15

In 1956, this communist sought a more independent position for Hungary

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Imre Nagy

Question 16

First satellite, Soviet, to orbit the earth

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Sputnik

Question 17

1968, the government in Czechoslovakia, under Alexander Dubchek began a more liberal communism

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Prague Spring

Question 18

In 1917, the British Foreign Secretary delcared that Britain favored a national home for Jews

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Balfour Declaration

Question 19

An armistice at the end of the Korean War restored the border back to this parallel

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38th

Question 20

President Nixon began a policy know as Vietnamization which involved

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gradual withdraw of troops from Vietnam

Question 21

In the civil war in Yugoslavia, the Serbs pursued a policy of "ethnic cleansing" which targeted

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Bosnian Muslims

Question 22

This replaced the League of Nations after World War 2

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UN

Question 23

In 1991, THIS, led to unified EEC currency (Euro) and strong central bank

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Maastricht Treaty

Question 24

West Germany: Federal Republic of Germany, while East Germany:

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German Democratic Republic

Question 25

In Poland, the leader of the strikers, the Solidarity movement was

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Lech Walesa

Question 26

Gorbachev's policy which means "restructuring"

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perestroika

Question 27

Western powers issued a new currency in Berlin which the Soviets feared: offered better rates

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results in the Berlin Blockade

Question 28

In 1957, through the Treaty of Rome, the six members of Coal and Steel Co.-more than free-trade

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EEC

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