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What did we call the war of ideas (ideologies) that was never fought directly against two countries but was fought indirectly through other (proxy) countries in the world?
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The Cold War (1946-1980s)
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Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the Soviet Union (Russia)'s takeover or influence in Eastern European nations like Hungary and Poland as what kind of curtain?
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He said that an "Iron Curtain" had descended upon Europe.
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After President FDR (Roosevelt) died, his vice president Harry Truman became president. What did his "Truman Doctrine" do? |
It gave economic and military aid ($$$) to nations that tried to resist communism.
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What did the USA call the policy of trying to keep communism from spreading? |
Containment. |
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What do you call the US government's fear that if one country, fell to communism, the next and the next and the next would also become communist?
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The Domino Theory.
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Which country believed in capitalism and democratic freedom? |
The United States of America |
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What two policies did he introduce in an attempt to improve the stagnant Soviet economy?
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glasnost: openness, free press, free elections, free speech (in the past you'd be arrested for these). Perestroika: restructuring (reforms) of the economy and bureaucracy.
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What happened in the late 1980s in the Soviet Bloc?
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Eastern European nations (Poland, Hungary) had free elections and voted out their communist parties. The Berlin Wall came down and Germany was reunified in 1989.
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What did Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania do?
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They were forcibly taken over by the Soviet Union, so they demanded their independence, too. The republics of the Soviet Union began to break away.
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In the summer of 1991, what happened to Gorbachev?
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Hardline communists, upset with their loss of power, tried to overthrow Gorbachev. Their coup failed when Boris Yeltsin, supported by the people and soldiers, refused to allow it to happen. The coup collapsed.
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What happened by Christmas 1991?
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Yeltsin's popularity and power had grown, while Gorbachev was blamed for the nation's problems. The USSR voted itself out of existence.
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Who became the first president of "Russia"?
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Boris Yeltsin. He wanted in some ways to be democratic, but he also wanted to centralize his power.
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What was his "shock therapy"?
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He tried to rapidly introduce market reforms in order to get the economy going. The results were unemployment, a falling currency (the ruble) and the rise of many opposition groups.
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What is current Russia President V. Putin trying to do?
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He has tried to centralize power (more in the Soviet tradition), deal with Russian oligarchs and mafia, put down Islamic Chechen rebellions, as well as ethnic discontent.
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What problems face the Soviet Union Today?
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The pensions of the elderly are worthless, unemployment, a huge gap between the rich and poor, AIDS and an antibiotic resistant strain of TB, crime etc.
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Why were Britain/UK, France, and the US frenemies during World War II? In other words, why were they Allies together? |
*They agreed that Germany (and Japan) were dangerous and needed to be stopped. *Russia had been invaded by Hitler and the Nazi German troops. *They could fight Germany on two fronts (west and east sides) |
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What country believed that the WHOLE society or government should control all business, rejected private property ownership (anti-free enterprise), and abolished religion. |
The USSR, aka Soviet Union, or Russia todoay |
