AP EUROPEAN HISTORY

POSTWAR EUROPE: RECOVERY, COMMUNISM AND COLD WAR FOCUS QUESTIONS 1. What is detente? How was it applied to the Cold War? 2. What is meant by “the thaw” in relations between the West and the Communism? 3. Despite the success of Gosplan, what were some of the failures in production? 4. List the pros and cons of Stalin’s administration in the USSR. 5. What were the Communist countries that were not part of the Soviet Union’s satellite nations? Why? 6. Describe the terms of the Schuman and Monnet Plan. What did it promote? 7. What was the main reason the U.S. put aside its policy of isolationism after World War II? 8. Name the industrial regions of Germany. Where is the center? 9. In what ways were tensions increased by the partitioning of Germany? 10. Why is the Marshall Plan considered altruistic? 11. Which countries are part of the Common Market? How was the Common Market created? 12. Name some of the common characteristics of the Soviet satellites. How do they relate to the USSR. 13. List the changes in Soviet policy under the leadership of Nikita Khruschchev. 14. Make a chronological table of the events before, during, and shortly after the Korean War. 15. What was wrong with the Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1970. How could it backfire?