REE 301 Final Exam Prep Test
Questions with Complete Solutions
Who was Alexander Dubček? - ANSWER Leader of some CZech reform 1968
What was the Harmel Report? What is its relevance in the context of the Prague Spring? -
ANSWER Doc that reasserted nato principle deterrents and detention of with soviet union
corruption security approach with SU relevant because reaffirms block of nations in support
of security in western europe when eastern europe was going through it with regime change
Us is trying to reach agreement with the soviet union when Prague spring happen they viewed
it as a revolution in a country in the society udon while we support what they are doing we
are not going to get involved in what they are doing
West supports this but a public announcement would be too much
Tried not to get involved
What is détente? Explain in a sentence or two; specify the period to which it refers. - ANSWER
Increased trade weapon control exchange program of students
1967-1979
Give the date of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. - ANSWER August 20th- 21 1968
What factors contributed to the unwillingness/inability of NATO to act in response to
the events in Czechoslovakia? - ANSWER They had this new policy of detente trying to
reach peaceful agreement s
A lot going on did not want o get involved and jeopardies what they were working with in
soviet union
, How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed Was written with a Western audience in
mind. How does this affect the way Drakulić presents the stories of East European women? -
ANSWER They had to explain norms of society life
She used western language
She presented as a monolid instead of women of different women of different countries having
a different experience
How do you understand the statement "The trivial is political" from Slavenka Drakulić's How We
Survived Communism and Even Laughed? - ANSWER Not everything came back to politics
Western countries can dissociate
The food on your table political the little things became political
How are Eastern European women represented in HowWe Survived Communism and Even
Laughed? - ANSWER In the way that they
Socialist superwoman
Workforce and at home
The eastern European women homemaking raising children and having a job
What would you criticize about the way Slavenka Drakulić portrays daily life under
state Socialism? - ANSWER A privileged point of view
Ordering a pizza at a cafe and is shocked that getting food is difficult
Might not be her economic status but they had an easier form of socialism
What, according to Drakulić, can women contribute to the story of communism in Eastern
Europe? - ANSWER The ideology and the actual way of it working do not work
What was "Solidarity"? - ANSWER Trade union founded at lenin shipyard in consome Poland
Drove the revolution against the regime the economy was falling
Communist in an ideology called to fix things and started the reforms
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