Test Review Guide for Unit 2, Western Civilization since 1970

Pre-IB World History

Unit 2 Test Review Guide

Objectives Taught: The student should be able to:

· trace the end of the Cold War through the US and USSR political systems;

· evaluate the policies of Russia since 1991 and their impact on US-USSR relations;

· trace the fall of the Iron Curtain;

· evaluate the “success” of the end of the Cold War on both East European states and in the satellites such as in Africa and Asia;

· describe the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its impact on surrounding states;

· identify the European Union and its impact on US economics;

· trace the development of Great Britain since 1980;

· identify two recent French Presidents;

· evaluate the 1960’s revolutionary impact on the social history since 1970, with special emphasis on women’s history;

· evaluate the use of terrorism, both domestic and international;

· describe how 9/11 impacted terrorism throughout the globe;

· identify the Green Movement and describe its impact in recent politics;

· describe the chaos of the artistic, music and literature world since World War II;

· contrast the modern Existentialism to the Post-Modern Christian reaction;

· analyze the culture of the 1980’s to 2000 in reference to pop (mass) culture, and globalism.

Key Terms, People, and Ideas

· ABM Treaty · SALT I · Influence of Vietnam on Détente · Détente · Watergate · Kissinger · Ford as the Illegitimate President and its impact on the Cold War · Helsinki Accords (1975) · Carter as “Outsider” and its impact on Cold War · Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan · Iran Crisis · SALT II · “The Reagan Revolution” · SDI · INF · First Iraq War’s illustration that Cold War was over? · evaluation of Reagan · Brezhnev’s “no experimentation” · Economic Problems · KGB · Andropov · Gorbachev and his “New Thinking” · 1986 speech · Perestroika · Glasnost · nationalism in the Soviet Union · Gorbachev and Afghanistan	· Brezhnev Doctrine · Baltic States · 1991 Hardliner Coup Attempt · Boris Yeltsin · Mass Politics in the USSR · December 25, 1991 · Chechnya · Vladimir Putin · Pravda · rhetoric · 1989: Year of Miracles · Edward Gierek · Lech Walesa · Solidarity · Martial Law · Communism with a Facelift · Revision of Irmy Nagy · Gustav Husak · Vaclav Havel · Ceausescu · Timisoara · Erich Honeker · Hungary’s impact on East Germany · Willy Brandt · Ostpolitik · Basic Treaty · Why did Brandt fall? (think about him being a Social Democrat) · Helmut Kohl	· Berlin Wall Falls: impact on Globe · Separatist Movement within Yugoslavia · Croatia · Slovenia · Bosnia Herzegovina · Bill Clinton’s role in Bosnian War · NATO · Dayton Accords · Kosovo · Serbian Actions and Ethic Cleansing · KLA · Milosevic · NATO · The EC and its population · Treaty of Maastricht · Euro · IRA · 26 + 6 = 1 · 9/11 and the IRA · Margaret Thatcher · “Iron Lady” · Thatcherism · Falklands War · Thatcher’s demise · John Major · Tony Blair · Labour Government · Iraq War · Gordon Brown
· Francois Mitterand · Jacques Chirac · 1972 Munich Olympics · Pan American Flight 103 · Birth Rate Crisis · Women and economic inequality · Women Studies’ Curriculum · Post-Abortion Activism · Developing vs. Developed Nations and Feminism · Charles Martel Club · Red Army Brigade · Al Qaeda · PLO and Israel · Guest Workers and struggles · East European Immigration (refugees) · Racism in East Europe · Growing Economy saves everything	· Causes of the Green Movement · Green Parties · Charter 77 · NGO’s · Andy Warhol · Jackson Pollock · Postmodern Art · Anselm Kiefer · Theater of the Absurd · Grass’s The Tin Drum · Beckett’s Waiting for Godot · Serialism	· Existentialism · Satre · Camus · Postmodern Religion · John XXIII · John Paul II · Karl Rahner · Kart Barth · Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful · McLuhan’s Global Village · Mass Sports · Chemical Fertilizer’s negative impact · NGO’s that are not focused on green

Thoughts to Ponder (We are moving towards essays so use these questions as you study to ponder THEMES)

· To what extent did Reagan end the Cold War?

· To what extent was George H.W. Bush’s New World Order realized?

· How did the hope at the end of the Cold War lead to despair by the mid-1990’s?

· How did Clinton-Bush’s foreign policy shape the world and its perspective of the US since 1993?

· How did the development of Existentialism and the “Theater of the Absurd” illustrate the sense of lost felt by the Westerners in the years after World War II?

· How did Existentialism and Post-Modern Christianity differ in their attempts to satisfy the emptiness felt in the last half of the 20^th Century?

· Why might Latin America have a negative image of “Imperial American” interest in its region?