Compare and contrast the policies of Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev, with particular attention to their implications for the Soviet Bloc.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. The Soviet crackdown of the Hungarian Uprising in 1956 and Prague Spring in 1968 reflects the Soviet Union’s willingness to use military force to keep the countries within the Soviet Bloc in line with Soviet goals.
b. The Brezhnev Doctrine, issued after Prague Spring, made it the official policy of the Soviet Union to intervene in any country within the Soviet Bloc that, in the eyes of the Soviet Union, was straying from the path set forth by the Soviet Union.
c. The Soviet Union subsidized the economy of countries within the Soviet Bloc (e.g., goulash economy).
d. Relations between the Soviet Union and the Soviet Bloc underwent a seismic shift under Mikhail Gorbachev.
e. Gorbachev’s policies of perestroika and glasnost also applied to the Soviet Union’s relationship with the countries in the Soviet Bloc.
f. Struggling with its own economy, the Soviet Union was no longer able to subsidize the Soviet Bloc.
g. The Soviet Union did not react to Hungary’s opening of the border with Austria at the picnic at Sopron.
h. The Soviet Union also ignored similar developments unfolding in other countries.
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Examine the containment policy as the cornerstone of American foreign policy during the Truman and Eisenhower administrations. What were the goals of containment as established by President Truman in the Truman Doctrine? How successful had the United States been by 1961 in achieving those objectives?
What will be an ideal response?
Andrew Jackson's vice president, ____________, resigned after Jackson supported the Tariff of 1832.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The continued growth of trade and manufacturing after 1200 resulted in:
a. The growth of wealthy port cities and urban areas in the Latin West. b. The continuing economic depression in agriculture. c. The isolation of Europe from the rest of the world. d. Religious revival and expansion. e. Strict government regulation.
What was the Fronde?
A) A peasant revolt in France B) The resistance of the nobility to the policies of absolutism in France C) Resistance by Huguenots to royal policy D) The on-again, off-again war with Spain E) None of the above.