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ANSWER TWO OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. PLEASE READ THE QUESTION CAREFULLY AS EACH HAS VARIOUS ELEMENTS AND GIVE YOU A CHOICE OF THE FACTORS TO ADDRESS.
YOUR ANSWER TO EACH QUESTION SHOULD BE AT LEAST 1 PAGE IN LENGTH AND NO MORE THAN 1.5 PAGES. YOU MUST ADHERE TO PROPER CITATION GUIDELINES IF YOU QUOTE DIRECTLY. Please use 12 point size font, either Calibri or Times New Roman style, and double spacing.
This is not a research paper and you should only use the following sources as a basis of your answer:
– Assigned readings (primary & secondary sources)
– Your notes from class lectures, discussions, and films
– Optional: Bonnie Smith et al. textbook (posted on Blackboard)
It must be handed in via Safeassign on Blackboard.
THIS IS AN EXAM AND NOT A PAPER, SO NO LATE HAND-INS WILL BE ACCEPTED !!
Question 1: WWII and the Cold War
Historians have argued that WWII set the stage for the Cold War in a number of respects. According to the historian Jan T. Gross, the war constituted the communist revolution in Central Europe. Write an essay evaluating these assertions based on an analysis of at least three following sets of factors:
– The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the KatynForest Massacre, and Soviet crimes during WWII
– The nature of the postwar peace settlement and the redrawing of the map of Central Europe
– Ethnic cleansing and the renationalization of borderlands
– Nationalism and the Soviet takeover of power in Central Europe
Question 2: Stalinism and Communism
Nikita Khrushchev promoted the myth of the ?good Lenin? and ?bad Stalin,? thus giving way to the coining of the concept Stalinism (versus Leninism). Based on your knowledge of the Bolshevik Revolution and totalitarianism, to what extent was this bipolar assertion true? What was the nature of Stalinism in Central Europe? Be sure to respond to these question based on an evaluation ofat least two following sets of factors (which belong together) as a basis for your answer:
– Stalinist idealism, ?Socialist realism,? and propaganda
– Terror, the Purges, and Show Trials
– Autarky, collectivization, and industrialization
Question 3: Cold War international politics
By 1945, the international arena was largely marked by USA-USSR competition for global influence. Focusing on relations/conflicts between the USA and USSR with other nations in Europe and other parts of the world, write an essay in response to the following questions:
How did the bipolar arena in Europe developand the Cold War become official? How did de-Colonization and the establishment of the state of Israel influence this bipolar arena? To what extent can we draw comparisons between de-Colonization and the Thaw?
Be sure to consider at least three of the following factors in your responses:
– The Warsaw Pact and the Cominform
– The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
– The partition of Germany and the Berlin Crisis of 1949
– Titoism, Nasserism, and Non-Alignment
– The Suez Crisis, the Hungarian Revolution
PROPER CITATION GUIDELINE FOR THIS EXAM (NOT FOR THE PAPER, WHICH HAS ITS OWN GUIDELINES)
If you copy a sentence directly from a text (primary or secondary source), you must put it in quotation marks and draw a footnote. In the footnote write: Name of author, Name of text or book, page number
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