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Post Cold War European History
Post cold War Midterm
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History
Undergraduate 4
04/07/2010

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Britain's chief contribution to the world in the early 60's was
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Rock Groups
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Soviets invaded of what country
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Czechoslovakia
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Economic reconstruction plan.
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Marshall Plan
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Iron Curtain
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Churchill
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By 1948 the only country not under Soviet Control.
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Finland
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European Cultural Imperialism
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US
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Warsaw Pact's western counterpart
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NATO
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Soviet blockaded this city in an attempt to oust the US
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Berlin
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The _________ Wall symbolized the cold war.
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Berlin
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Communist success in post WWII elections was because of
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Wartime exploits
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The failed August Coup of 1991 and 1993 brought __________ into his own
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Yeltsin
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Unique aspects of the 91 and 93 coup was
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televised, failure, Communist were defeated
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Yeltsin Brokered entity meant to replace the USSR
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Commonwealth of Independent States
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USSR officially ended
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25 Dec 1991
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Muscovite's learned to build barricades from the televised _______ conflict
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Baltic
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First war between Soviet Ethnic groups took place between Armenians and
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Azeris
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Nagorono Karabakh was 80%
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Armenian
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Gorbachev reforms centered on
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Glasnost and Perestrojka
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Yeltsin believed the communist party needed to respond to the needs of the
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People
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Who said "Tear down this wall"
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Reagan
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Who was responsible for the UK's turn around
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Margret Thatcher
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Who was responsible for the UK's turn around
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Margret Thatcher
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Reagan asked who to tear down the wall
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Gorbachev
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Reagan was portrayed as
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Cowboy, actor, lunatic with his finger on the trigger
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Who challenged the UK for control of Las Malvinas
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Argentina
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Gorbachev thought he could win over the US public by
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Schmoozing
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Kohl wanted reunification of
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Germany
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Tiananmin Sq
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Communist China
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Who buried 3 Soviet Presidents
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Reagan
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