Traditions and Encounters, 2/e

Jerry H. Bentley, University of Hawai'i
Herbert F. Ziegler, University of Hawai'i

THE BIPOLAR WORLD

Study Questions


1		What factors led to the division of Germany and Berlin at the end of World War II?



2		What factors led to the Korean War and how was that conflict resolved?



3		What were some of the concerns of modern feminists? In what ways did western feminists take inspiration from other revolutionary movements?



4		How did fears of communist infiltration affect American culture in the 1950s and early 1960s?



5		What factors led to the postwar civil rights movement in the United States? How did this movement reflect global events and concerns at the same time?



6		What technological achievements can be attributed to the rivalry of the cold war?



7		How did France and Yugoslavia escape from the bipolar alliances of the cold war?



8		In what specific ways did the Chinese Communist Party mount "a frontal attack on Chinese traditions" after 1949? What aspects of Chinese society were most dramatically affected?



9		Why were the two communist giants, China and the Soviet Union, unable to sustain an alliance?



10		Compare the American defeat in Vietnam with the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan. In what ways did each conflict reflect the limits of cold war bipolarism?



11		Why did communism fail to connect with nationalism? How did this failure lead to the collapse of the Soviet empire?



12		Discuss the efforts of Mikhail Gorbachev to restructure the Soviet economy. Why did these reforms fail?

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