1. A QUICK REVIEW History: Europe

2. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during WWII?

3. Stalin

4. The basic theory of _________is that people share the work and its rewards equally.

5. Communism

7. The Cold War

8. What was the dividing line between Eastern and Western Europe?

9. Iron Curtain

10. Who was the Soviet leader that came into power in 1985 and decreased military spending?

11. Mikhail Gorbachev

12. When the Soviet Union came to an end in 1991, how many countries did it split into?

13. 15

14. Why was the Berlin Wall built?

15. To keep East Berliners from going to West Berlin. It separated the communist part of the city from the free sections.

16. What year did the Cold War begin?

17. 1945

18. The build up of weapons in order to have power for protection was the ______________

19. Arms Race

20. To reunite or bring back together is _________

21. reunification

22. Which organization included most Western European countries and was formed to: -set up a defense alliance -protect member countries from the Soviet Union invasion -assist in creating free governments.

23. NATO

24. What marked the end of the Cold War?

25. When the Berlin Wall was torn down.

26. When was Germany reunited?

27. 1990

28. How were the Soviet Union and U.S. evenly matched?

31. Joseph Stalin

32. The alliance of Eastern European countries behind the Iron Curtain was the ____ _____

33. Warsaw Pact

34. What is a collective farm?

36. What was the main reason the Soviet Union collapsed?

37. Answers may vary exhausted all of their money because they were trying to compete with the United States in the Space Race and Arms race.

38. Who did Hitler send to concentration camps?

40. Who was the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany?

41. Adolf Hitler

43. D.) Farmers lost their land and banks closed.

44. The Treaty of Versailles blamed what country for World War I?

45. Germany

46. What restrictions did the Treaty of Versailles put on Germany?

48. What was a cause of the Russian Revolution?

49. Answers may vary There were food shortages in Russia.

50. The planned killing of a race of people is _______

51. Genocide