Ch. 28
According to the best estimates, about how many people died in WW2?
50 million
How did the Soviet Union and Eastern European communist regimes treat displaced persons returning home after the war?
As politically unreliable because of their exposure to Western European society
How did Britain pursue different policies than most of Western European nations in the postwar era?
Britain instituted a cradle-to-grave welfare state
The ultimate goal of the plan for an international organization to coordinate coal and steel production in Europe was to
Create a single, competitive market in Europe
In the 1950s and 1960s, what became the basic objective of all Western European governments?
Economic growth
In 1954, Vietnam obtained Independence from
France
Why did the Council of Europeans fail to evolve into a European Parliament with sovereign rights?
Great Britain consistently opposed conceding any real political powered sovereignty to the council
How did the Pied-Noirs complicate the experience of decolonization in Algeria?
Having Lived in Algeria for several generations, these European Algerians threatened revolt against France if France did not oppose the Islamic independence movement
Why did Charles de Gaulle withdraw France from NATO?
He viewed the United States as the main threat to French independence
Which of the following best characterizes the results of the Marshall Plan?
It was one of the most successful foreign aid programs in history, preventing economic collapse in Western Europe
The weakness of Big Science was
Its high cost
How did Mao Zedong gain the support of peasantry in China?
Mao promised to expropriate land from large landowners
What was the consequence of Roosevelt's agreement with Slain at the Tehran Conference that the British-American armies would launch a frontal assault on France?
Only Soviet troops would liberate Eastern Europe
How did Big Science foster the Green Revolution?
Research into agriculture greatly increased the world food supply, using fewer workers and more productivity per acre
After WW2, the Soviet Union
Returned to the rigid dictatorship of the 1930s
Jews in Palestine proclaimed the state of Israel when
The British withdrew from Palestine in 1948
All of the following correctly describe decolonization of the Belgian Congo except
The Congolese political leaders promoted a Marxist agenda that included the confiscation of all lands and mineral wealth
Why was West Germany allowed to build an army after 1955?
The German army would permit Germany to defend itself from attack by the Soviet Union
How did the Soviet Union initially organize the Eastern European nations as it threw out pro-Nazi regimes?
The Soviet Union created coalition governments of leftist political parties but reserved key government posts for Moscow-trained communists
What did the Korean War demonstrate about Cold War relations?
The United States and Soviet Union would avoid open conflict in Europe but would engage in open conflict elsewhere in the world
How did the United States respond to the decolinization movement?
The United States had long opposed empire and encouraged European nations to let go of their foreign colonies
The goals of the Treaty of Rome in 1957 included all of the following except
The elimination of borders
Which of the following best characterizes east German governments response to the nationwide demonstrations against poor wages and working conditions in 1953?
The government permitted soviet troops to put down the revolt, jailed demonstrators, but then instituted reforms to respond to the demonstrators strongest demands
Changes in the structure of European society after WW2 were primarily the result of
economic and technological transformation
The advancement in military weaponry and the space race
fostered a revolution in computer technology
The growth of the middle class in the postwar era had been attributed primarily to
increased demand for experts and managers
The Bretton Woods agreement of 1944 accomplished all of the following except
requiring all western nations to abandon the gold standard
Khrushchev's de-stalinization campaign included all of the following except
the Communist party permitted elations at the local level from among competing communist candidates for office
By the time of the Yalta Conference, the position of the Soviet Union was much stronger in negotiations with the United States and Great Britain for all of the following reasons except
the Soviet Union had developed the technology to detonate a nuclear warhead
During the 1950s, the christian democrats across Europe endorsed all of the following positions except
they supported socialist economic policies
