1. Why did the wartime alliance of Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the United States collapse so quickly in 1945?
2. What was the immediate effect of the "containment" doctrine on U.S. strategic thought?
3. Why was the development of the Soviet atomic bomb such a pivotal moment in the developing Cold War?
4. What were the most important consequences of the civil rights movement in the United States in the 1960s?
5. What were the most important social problems in post-1945 Latin America?
6. Why did Fidel Castro maintain considerable popular support in the aftermath of his revolution in Cuba?
7. Why were the "Yoshida years" so important to Japan's postwar economic recovery?
8. Why did Mao's Great Leap Forward fail?
9. Why did Great Britain reach the conclusion that partition was the only solution to the problems facing India at independence?
10. How did the Cold War influence Asian development in the postwar era?
11. What were the most important problems facing the newly independent nations of Africa?
12. How did superpower politics further destabilize the postwar situation in the Middle East?
13. What were the most important results of the creation of the State of Israel in 1948?
14. What were the major benefits of the era of détente?
15. How did population growth, urbanization, and industrialization impact the global environment?
16. What was the net effect of economic modernization after the Second World War?
17. Why did many nations accumulate massive debts during the post-Second World War era?
18. Why is the term "pragmatism" often used to describe politics in the Communist nations after 1945?
19. Why did so-called "liberal causes" such as women's rights and the welfare state lose favor in the United States in the late 1970s and 1980s?
20. What was the net effect of U.S. intervention in Latin America during the Cold War era?
21. Why did the United Nations experience only limited success during the Cold War years?
22. How was the exchange of information changed by the spread of television?
23. Why was political stability so elusive in South and Southeast Asia during the 1970s and 1980s?
24. What were the most important problems facing the Soviet Union in 1985?
25. Why did Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost policies achieve so few successes?
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