CHAPTER: 29 – Cold War Conflict and Consensus

1. CHAPTER: 29 – Cold War Conflict and Consensus OVERALL • Which nation is more culpable for decades of Cold War?

2. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War • What is the condition of Europe in 1945? cities / infrastructure death toll displaced persons

3. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War • How successful were the Nuremberg Trials in achieving justice? international tribunal denazification

4. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War • How is the Cold War developing prior to Germany’s surrender? Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Teheran Conference second front

5. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War • How is the Cold War developing prior to Germany’s surrender? Yalta Conference Red Army location Germany / Poland / East Europe

6. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War • Who has the more convincing argument at the Potsdam Conference, Truman or Stalin? free elections buffer zone

7. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War • Who initiates the Cold War? US aid / Iron Curtain speech non-communist purges France/Italy/Greece/China Truman Doctrine / containment nuclear threat

8. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War • Who initiates the Cold War? Marshall Plan / COMECON

9. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War • Who initiates the Cold War? Berlin Airlift

10. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War • Who initiates the Cold War? NATO / Warsaw Pact China / Korea

11. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War • Who initiates the Cold War? China / Korea

12. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War • How did 20th century political conflict alter the scientific community? radar/rocketry/jets/atomic bomb Big Science government subsidies

13. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War • How did 20th century political conflict alter the scientific community? technology race Sputnik / moon landing

14. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War • How did 20th century political conflict alter the scientific community? computers / transistors

15. Postwar Europe and the Origins of the Cold War • How did 20th century political conflict alter the scientific community? green revolution

16. The Western Renaissance • How does Western Europe rebound from WWII’s devastation? Marshall Plan / Korean War Keynesian economics Christian Democrats Konrad Adenauer Labour Party “economic miracle”

17. The Western Renaissance • What were the first moves toward today’s European Union? Bretton Woods Agreement IMF / World Bank Marshall Plan

18. The Western Renaissance • What were the first moves toward today’s European Union? OEEC Coal and Steel Community Organization for European Economic Cooperation Council of Europe Jean Monnet / Robert Schuman European Coal and Steel Community Treaty of Rome European Economic Community / Common Market Charles de Gaulle

19. The Western Renaissance • How does consumerism reach new heights? full employment / higher wages free market social security / credit autos / household / clothing / luxury materialism capitalist propaganda

20. Soviet Eastern Europe • As the “old Stalin” returns, how do things develop in Eastern Europe? “… war on capitalism” Cominform Eastern bloc JosipBroz Tito / Yugoslavia reparations / five year plans / collectivization Poland / East Germany

21. Soviet Eastern Europe • Why do Soviet citizens breathe a sigh of relief under Nikita Khrushchev? 20th Party Congress / “secret speech” de-Stalinization consumer goods Pasternak / Solzhenitsyn

22. Soviet Eastern Europe • Why is Khrushchev’s foreign policy more complicated? “peaceful coexistence” / Austria Third World / split with Mao Poland / “many roads to socialism” Hungary / Imre Nagy

23. Soviet Eastern Europe • How does Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization come to an end? Berlin Wall Kennedy Cuban Missile Crisis Leonid Brezhnev arms race

24. The End of Empires • How does decolonization become immersed in the Cold War chess match? nationalist movements WWII aftermath permanent world revolution nonalignment

25. The End of Empires • One by one, how do Europe’s Asian colonies slip away? Indonesia / Sukarno Indochina / Ho Chi Minh India / Gandhi / Nehru China / Mao Zedong

26. The End of Empires • Why does the Middle East become the focal point of world tension? UN Partition of Palestine 1stArab-Israeli War Zionism Suez Crisis

27. The End of Empires • In Africa, is it decolonization or neo-colonization? Ghana / Nigeria / Tanzania Kenya / Mau Mau Congo / Lumumba / Mobutu association Algeria / pied noirs / FLN / de Gaulle South Africa / apartheid Angola / Mozambique

28. Postwar Social Transformations • During the postwar era, how is Europe being altered in ways never before seen? middle class / white collar / civil servants salary vs. inheritance eastern hierarchy farmers / industry education

29. Postwar Social Transformations • How do migration patterns reverse themselves from the previous century? intra-nation “guest workers” postcolonial migration diversity / adaptation / xenophobia

30. Postwar Social Transformations • How is the role of women being redefined? birthrate / “empty nest” boom years / white collar / education Eastern Europe part-time employment divorce / single mother

31. Postwar Social Transformations • Why is the youth movement a new phenomenon? baby boomers US – film / rock n’ roll “Teddy Boys” / Halbstarken / blouson noirs purchasing power universities / subsidies counterculture