1) Why were the United States and the Soviet Union suspicious of each other after World War II, and what events between 1945 and 1949 heightened the tensions between the two nations? How and why did the Cold War become a global affair after 1949?
2) What were the similarities and differences in the political, social, and economic history of Eastern and Western Europe between 1945 and 1965?
3) What were the origins of the Cold War?
RECOVERY AND RENEWAL
1) What were the main developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and/or Western Europe between 1945 and 1965?
2) What changes in the Eastern European countries took place under Khrushchev?
3) How and why did Western states adopt new strategies for unity after World War II?
DECOLONIZATION
1) Why and how did the European colonies in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia gain independence between 1945 and 1965?
2) What factors caused decolonization?
A DIVIDED WESTERN WORLD
1) What were the main developments in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and/or Western Europe between 1965 and 1985?
2) What was life like in the Soviet block? How did Communist regimes maintain control over its citizens?