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Essential Questions
Ch 28: Cold War and a New Western World
1. What events between 1945 and 1949 heightened the tensions between the US and the USSR, and how and
why did the Cold War become a global affair after 1949?
2. Why and how did the European colonies in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia gain independence between
1945 and 1973?
3. What were the main developments in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1973?
4. What were the main political developments in the nations of Western European and North America between
1945 and 1973?
5. What major changes occurred in Western Society between 1945 and 1973?
6. What were the similarities and differences in the political, social and economic history of Eastern Europe
between 1945 and 1973?
Ch 29: The Contemporary Western World Since 1973
1. What reforms did Gorbachev institute in the Soviet Union, and what role did he play in the soviet Union’s
demise?
2. What changes have occurred in Eastern Europe as a result of the revolutions of 1989?
3. How and why did the Cold War end?
4. What are the major political and social developments in Western Europe and North America since 1973?
5. What major cultural and intellectual trends have emerged since 1973?
6. What are the similarities and differences between the feminist movement of the nineteenth century and the
post-WWII feminist movement?