Transcript Ch 31 The Cold War Western Society and Eastern Europe

JEOPARDY Ch. 30 and 31
World War II and the Cold War and
World Reactions
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Global Reaction to WWII
Global Reaction to the Cold
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Anti-Colonial Movements
Important People
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Who was Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
He was the leader of the Muslim
political party and became the first
prime minister of Pakistan.
What was the Battle of the Coral Sea and the
Battle of Midway?
These naval battles were
fought by the Japanese and
U.S. and proved to be the
turning point of the War in
the Pacific.
What was the Battle of the Bulge?
This was last gasp effort of
the German army on the
western front against the
Allies.
What was the Blitzkrieg?
This was Hitler’s “lightning
war”.
What was Apartheid ?
This is the type of racial
segregation practiced in
South Africa.
Who was Jomo Kenyatta ?
He wrote a book titled
“ Facing Mount Kenya”
about resisting British
imperialism by using cultural
pride.
What was the Vichy Government ?
This was the government
that worked with the
Germans in France during
World War II.
Who was Winston Churchill ( He was the British
War Commander and before the war supported the
development of radar) ?
He was the British Prime
Minister who rallied the British
people by giving rousing
speeches and ruling with an iron
first.
Who was George Marshall and the Marshall
Plan?
The United States Secretary
of State who developed the
plan to rebuild Europe.
“Don’t Choke!”
Daily
Double
What was NATO or the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization?
This was the western military
alliance that was created after
World War II .
What was the Truman Doctrine?
This was the speech and
ultimately the policy of the
United States which proposed
the idea of containing the
spread of Communism and
containment.
What was the Berlin Wall?
This was the structure built by the
Soviet Union that became the
symbol of the Cold war in 1961
and halted the flow of refugees
from the Communist east.
What was the French – Algerian
War and the FLN ?
This was the war that lasted
from 1945 until 1958 and
eventually ends the Fourth
Republic of France and brings
Charles de Gaulle to power.
What was the Green Party and
the Green Movement?
This was the Pro-Environmental
political party of Germany and
the movement that has caused
pro environmental changes in
Europe in recent years.
What is the European Union?
This is the name of the trade
organization that formed in
Europe after 1973 into the
1990s, that eased trade
restrictions between
European countries.
What is a Welfare State?
This is the name given to a country
that taxes heavily and increases the
size of the government in order to
help people with social programs.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
He was the successor to
Joseph Stalin who tried to
de-Stalinize the Soviet
Union.
What are NATO and the
WARSAW Pact?
These are the two military
alliances formed after 1945 .
What was the Haganah?
This was the Zionist military
force that spearheaded
resistance to the British in
Palestine.
What was the National Socialist German
Workers Party or Nazis?
This was the name of the
political party that Hitler joined
in 1919.
“Don’t Choke!”
Daily
Double
What was the Solidarity
Movement?
This was the movement in
Poland that began in the
Gdansk, (Poland) shipyards
and was led by Lech Walesa.
What was the Iron Curtain?
This was the term that
Churchill used for Stalin’s
Soviet domination of
eastern Europe.
What was the Atlantic Charter?
This was the alliance between U.S.
and Great Britain that pledged
mutual defense and the Right of all
people to choose their own
government.
Who were the Zapatistas ( featured on a
Rage Against the Machine Album) ?
This was the Guerilla movement
that originated in the Mexican
state of Chiapas in 1994 that
promised land reform and a
redistribution of wealth.
Who was Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ?
He was the Russian author that was
critical of the Soviet regime but also
critical of western materialism and
wrote the trilogy on Siberian prison
camps the “Gulag Archipelago”.
What was “The Feminine Mystique”
by Betty Friedan and “The Second
Sex” by Simone de Beauvoir?
These were two of the books that
marked the change in the drive for
gender equality in pay and
opportunity in the western world.
What was the Cold War ( 1945 1991)?
This was the
name given to
the state of relations between
the Soviet Union and its
allies and the United States
and its allies between 1945
and 1991.
What was the National
Liberation Front the F.L.N. v The
Secret Army Organization or
O.A.S.?
These were the two opposing forces
in Algeria during the long Algerian
War of Independence against the
French.
What was the Tehran Conference, the
Yalta Conference and the Potsdam
Conference?
These were the three conferences
between the Allied Powers that
took place during World War II.
What was the Battle of Britain (
Operation Sealion was stopped) ?
This was the Battle where the
German Blitzkrieg was stopped in
1940 and where radar,
determination and brave pilots
fought the German war machine to
a standstill.