Study Questions for Quiz

1) Why did the U.S. drop Atomic weapons on Japan?  How might these events be considered the beginning of the Cold War?
2) What was the Marshall Plan?  What did it do?
3) Why did the Cold War develop?
4) Know the following people: Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Ming, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur, Chiang Kai-shek, Neil Armstrong, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mohandas Gandhi
5) Discuss the Berlin Wall.  What was it?  Why was it put up?
6) What was the Korean War?  Why did it happen?  Who was involved?  When did it start and end?
7) What was the Vietnam War?  Why did it happen? Who was involved?  When did it start and end?
8) What was the Space Race?
9) What was Mao's main goal for China?
10) Who were some of the victims of Mao's purges?
11) What was the policy of glasnost?  How might this have changed Russia (USSR)?
12) What were most developing nations like right after independence?
13) How did Gandhi use civil disobedience to win independence from Britain?
14) Why is 1960 called the "Year of Africa"?
15) How did the United States propose to rebuild Western Europe following WWII?
16) Why did the Soviet Union blockade Berlin in 1948?
17) Why did Mao Zedong order the Cultural Revolution?
18) What changes did Castro make once he came to power in Cuba?
19) What were the demonstrators at Tiananmen Square demanding?
20) What problems do most African nations face today?