1. What is an example of the U.S. policy of containment?

2. What is appeasement?

3. What caused the Russian Revolution?

4. What was overthrown as a result of the Bolshevik Revolution?

5. What were Stalin’s goals with the five-year plan?

6. What were the major events of the Cold War?

7. What are “glasnost” and “perestroika”?

8. What is containment?

9. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

10. What was the Great Purge?

11. Who were Kulaks?

12. What was the “iron curtain”?

13. What were the problems with the Weimar Republic?

14. What was Kristallnacht?

15. What is inflation?

16. What happened on D-Day?

17. Who were the Axis powers?

18. What happened at the Munich Conference?

19. Who wrote “Mein Kampf?”

20. What did the Soviet Union do after WWII?

21. What happened at the Battle of Midway?

22. Describe the evacuation of Dunkirk:

23. What was the “island hopping” strategy?

24. What was Hitler’s “Final solution?”

25. What were the Nurembourg laws?

26. What was détente?

27. What was the Warsaw Pact?

28. List 3 fascist nations:

29. What was the goal of the Truman Doctrine?

30. What was destalinization?

31. What was the 38 th parallel?

32. Why did China enter the war in Korea?

33. Who were China’s Red Guards?

34. Where did the Soviet Union get involved in a prolonged military struggle with in 1979?

35. How did the U.S. respond to the Soviet satellite being launched?

36. What was the goal of Vietnamization?

37. Where were the atomic bombs dropped?

38. Why did the U.S. enter WWII?

39. Who were the members of the Warsaw Pact?

40. Who signed the Camp David Accords?

41. Who were the intifada?

42. Who are the Taliban?

43. What happened when an Israeli “buffer zone” was created?

44. Why did the U.N. fail in its plan to create a Palestinian state in the late 1940s?