Test #16- Cold War and Post Cold War 1990s

Post date: Feb 09, 2011 3:29:39 PM

Vocabulary for the Cold War and the 1990s and 2000

Terrorism

Globalization

Euro

European Union

N.A.T.O.

Warsaw Pact

Mad Cow Disease

United Nations

Ronald Reagan

Mikhail Gorbachov

Margaret Thatcher

Vladimir Putin

Slobodan Milosevic

Angela Merkel

  1. Explain why many Europeans saw and still see the United States (Americanization) as a threat to their culture and identity? How is this especially true following World War II?

  1. What are the key political moments in Europe in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s?

  1. Why did France and Britain pull out of their overseas colonies following World War II? Which colonies had to fight for their independence?

  1. How does Immigration look to change the face of European religious life, and culture in the post world war II economy?

  1. How does the movement toward post-modernism in philosophy and the arts reflect the death and devastation of World War II?