AP Euro Unit VIII

The Marshall Plan in 1947 was a response to

A Western Europe on the verge of the economic collapse

Throughout the 1970's and 1980's, Spain faced terrorist actions by an insurgent movement of

Basque separatists

Mikhail Gorbachev, who became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, tried to reform the Communist system through perestroika, or

Economic restructuring

What did the Marshall Plan accomplish?

It prevented economic collapse in Western Europe

Who is Vladimir Putin?

President of Russia beginning in 2000

The postindustrial society that emerged at the end of the 1970's

Relied on high-tech and service-oriented jobs for economic growth rather than on heavy industry and manufacturing jobs

The Helsinki Accords of 1975 called for

Respect for human rights and recognition of existing political boundaries

After the Second World War, the Soviet Union

Restaished a harsh dictatorship

What did Nikita Khrushchev's de-Salinization campaign call for?

The Communist Party to retain its monopoly on political power?

At the time of the Yalta Conference in 1945, why was the position of the Soviet Union much stronger in negotiations with the United States and Great Britain?

The Soviet army already occupied much of Eastern Europe

Why did OPEC declare an oil embargo on the United States in 1973?

The United States has aided Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria in 1973

Some Europeans warned that Europe's rapidly growing Muslim population was not only a security danger but also threatened

The West's tradition of freedoms, representative government, and toleration for differences

What was the result of the breaking of the Berlin blockage in 1948-49?

The creation of two separate German states: West Germany and East Germany

What event finally galvanized NATO action against the Bosnian Serbs?

The slaughter of thousands of citizens in Srebrenica

What did the era of stagflation in the late 1970's demonstrate about the social welfare states in Western Europe?

The welfare state was capable of preventing mass suffering sustaining political stability and democracy

What was Mikhail Gorbachev's goal in bringing reforms to Russia?

To revitalize the Soviet system in order to save it

Which of the following describes Eastern Bloc living standards in the 1970's?

Well below those in the West but well above those in the developing world

Christian Democrats in which country promoted a "social-market economy" based on a combination of free-market liberalism, some state intervention and an extensive social benefits network?

West Germany

What was the policy of dentente that Social Democrats in Europe Perseus?

A progressive relaxation of Cold War tensiobs

How did the Solidarity trade union in Poland understand its goals in the early 1980's?

Solidarity sought a self-limiting revolution to defend freedoms won in previous agreements with the Communist government