Ch 31 Study Guide

AP World History MHHS

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Chapter 31- Cold War & Decolonization, 1945-1975

Directions: Using complete sentences, answer the following questions. Page numbers provided.

1. Who coined the phrase “iron curtain”? p.821 2. Although the Soviet economy recovered rapidly after the Second World War, describe the economy as the postwar period progressed. P.825-826 3. How did the Korean War end? P.826-828 4. Why did the Korean War remain limited to the Korean peninsula? P.826 5. Who was Ho Chi Minh? P.828 6. What marked the end of France’s colonial enterprise in Indochina (Vietnam)? P.828 7. What was the catalyst for the space race? P.830 8. What caused the many former colonies to be transformed into independent states? P.830 9. Pakistan defined itself according to what? p.830 10. Who was the Prime Minister of India and what was India like (think SPRITE categories) in comparison to Pakistan? P.830-832 11. Why did India and Pakistan go to war in 1947? P.832 12. Who was Sukarno and what are the Dutch East Indies called today? P.832 13. How was Algeria different from British India? P.832 14. When Algeria finally won independence from France in 1962, what happened to their economy? P.832 15. What was the first British colony in West Africa to gain independence? P.833 16. After Britain had granted independence to West African nations in the 1960s, what stalled that processed in Britain’s eastern and southern African colonies? p.833 17. Describe the process of independence in the Belgian Congo. P.834 18. What is apartheid? P.834 19. Which leader of the African National Congress (ANC) organized guerilla resistance in 1960? P.835 20. Why did the United States overthrow the Guatemalan government in 1954? P.835 21. Describe at least 3 problems facing Mexico after the adoption of the 1917 Constitution. P.835 22. What caused the rebellion that led Batista to flee Cuba? P.838 23. What was the Bay of Pigs invasion? P.838 24. What happened to the U.S. corporation-owned property in Cuba? P.838 25. What was the Bandung Conference? P.839 26. Why did Israel, Great Britain, and France conspire to invade Egypt in 1956? P.840 27. After U.S. occupation of Japan ended in 1952, Japan was permitted virtually no military and was isolated from major issues in the Cold War between the U.S. and USSR. As a result, what did the Japanese focus on? P.841 28. What was the Great Leap Forward (1958) and did it work? P.841 29. Describe what the Red Guard units of the Cultural Revolution did. How did the Cultural Revolution get “out of hand”? p.841 30. What was the Palestine Liberation Organization and who was its leader? p.842 31. The Arab-Israeli conflict became a vital issue in world politics when was discovered in the Middle East? P.842 32. How did OPEC respond to the United States supporting Israel in the 1973 Egyptian- Israeli War? p.843 33. What created a new awareness of environmental issues? P.844

Notecard Terms: Identify (who/what/when/where/how/why) and explain its significance (think of the relevant SPRITE category and what effects it had on it). Resources: Use your chapter reading, glossary, student website (electronic flash cards are provided!), and/or internet. Sometimes using only one source will not suffice. iron curtain Korean War Cold War Vietnam War North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Cuban Missile Crisis United Nations Helsinki Accords World Bank nonaligned nations Marshall Plan Third World European Community Cultural Revolution (China) Truman Doctrine Warsaw Pact Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

Free Response Focus Questions: Answer these questions in a 5-7 sentence paragraph.  In your own words!!! Do not simply copy from the book and memorize the response. Know it.  You must support your response with plenty of facts!  Understand where events fall historically (global context, cause/effect, etc)

1. Describe the causes and onset of the Cold War. Discuss NATO, Warsaw Pact, Truman Doctrine, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Korea etc.

2. Where were the origins and functions of the United Nations? Use the internet, newspaper, or other resource to find articles about the UN and explain the issues currently being addressed in the UN. Has the UN been an effective peace-keeping institution?

3. What were some of the internal problems of African colonies in their struggles for independence?

4. Briefly discuss the origins of the Vietnam War. What two broad global contexts discussed in this chapter are exemplified in the case of Vietnam?

5. How did the Cold war affect China and Japan?

6. Describe the economic and political struggle between Third World nations in Latin America and the United States.

7. Describe the political situation in the Middle East after WWII, with particular emphasis on the Arab-Israeli conflict (and the numerous military incursions it produced) and the region’s production of oil.