Essay Quiz

1. Did the events of 1945 to 1949 preordain the development of the Cold War?

2. Was the "domino theory" a realistic assessment of the spread of communism between 1945 and 1955?

3. What was the overall impact of the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union?

4. Who won the Cold War?

5. What were the most important factors that allowed Mao Zedong to emerge victorious in the Chinese Civil War?

6. Was the overall impact of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution positive or negative for China?

7. Evaluate the overall effect of the Mao Zedong era on Chinese development.

8. Was the partition of India into two nations at independence beneficial or detrimental to India's long-term development?

9. Why has the nation of Pakistan remained politically unstable throughout its independent history?

10. Why have many of the nations of Latin America been unable to break the cycle of debt and dependence?

11. Examine the fate of any one of the following African nations since independence. Why has this country suffered from ongoing political, social, economic, and cultural instability? Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda.

12. Evaluate the overall effectiveness of the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s.

13. What was more important to Japan's postwar success - foreign involvement or domestic policy?

14. Evaluate the net effect of Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost campaigns.

15. Why has the Middle East been the focus of so much 20th century instability?

16. What are the major obstacles to an Israeli/Palestinian peace accord?

17. How successfully have the obstacles to European unity been overcome?

18. Why did the 1956 uprisings in Hungary and Poland fail?

19. Evaluate the overall effectiveness of the American civil rights movement.

20. How did the status of women change in Communist nations around the world?