1. Explain the process by which Europe was divided into two opposing camps in the years following World War II. (Western Heritage pp. 1108-1120)

Iron Curtain

Satellite States

Containment

Truman Doctrine

Marshall Plan

Berlin Blockade

2 Germanies

NATO

Warsaw Pact

2. Assess the degree of change that Stalin’s successors Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev introduced in the foreign and domestic policies of the Soviet Union. (Western Heritage pp. 1124-1135)

Khrushchev

Sputnik

"Virgin Lands" Program

Secret Speech of 1956

Suez Crisis of 1956

1956 Hungarian Uprising

U-2 Spy Plane (1960)

Berlin Wall

Cuban Missile Crisis

Brezhnev

"Prague Spring"

Brezhnev Doctrine

Detente

Helsinki Accords

Invasion of Afghanistan

Solidarity Movement

Lech Walesa

3.  Assess the impact of the rule of Mikhail Gorbachev on the Soviet Union and Europe. (Western Heritage pp. 1176-1197)

Mikhail Gorbachev

Perestroika

Glasnost

German Reunification

1989 (The Year of Revolution)

Collapse of USSR

Boris Yeltsin

August 1991 Coup

Commonwealth of Independent States

Yugoslav Civil War