Chapters 27-29 ap euro MC
According to the best estimates, about how many people died in the second world war
50 million
As practiced in the 1930s appeasement was
A British policy that aimed to give Hitler whatever he wanted in order to avoid war
When did Jews in Palestine proclaim the state of Israel?
After the British withdrew from Palestine in 1948
How was the Tet Offensive, launched by the Vietcong in January 1968, perceived in the United States?
As a sign that the war was not close to ending
Who was the founder of National Organization for Women
Betty Friedan
Changes in the structure of European society after the Second World War were primarily the result of
Economic and technological transformation
How did the Soviet Unions treatment of Czechoslovakia in 1948 demonstrate its intention to consolidate its hold on Eastern Europe?
Even though the Czech Communist Party had won significant electoral support, Stalin still orchestrated the overthrow of the government and establish a one-party.
What did Richard Nixon do following his election to the U.S. presidency in 1968
Gradually reduced American involvement in the Vietnam War
What did the West German minister of the economy do in 1957 to foster economic growth?
He emphasized free-market capitalism.
How did Mussolini build support from big business in Italy?
He left big business to regulate itself and never purged its members
How did West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl build support for German reunification in East Germany?
He offered the East Germans an economically advantageous swap of East German currency for West German currency
How did Mao Zedong gain the support of the peasantry in China
He promised to expropriate land from the large landowners
Why did Charles de Gaulle withdraw France from NATO?
He viewed the United States as the main threat to French independence.
The target of the first of two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945 was
Hiroshima, Nagasaki
The growth of the middle class in the postwar era has been attriituibted primarily to
Increased demeaned for technologists and managers
How was the revolution in Romania in 1989 different from the revolutions in the rest of Eastern Europe?
It became violent and bloody when Communist leaders ordered security forced to slaughter thousands
What was the result of Margaret thatchers effort to encourage low and moderate income renters to buy their apartments
It created a new class of property owners
How did the Soviet Union initially organize the Eastern European nations as it threw out pro-Nazi regimes
It created coalition governments of leftist political parties but reserved key government posts for Moscow-trained Communist.
How did the United States respond to the decolonization movement in the first years after the Second World War
It encouraged European nations to let go of their former colonies.
What was the effect of Lenin's New Economic Policy?
It established five year plans under which the state would direct capitalist economy
What was the Nazi Party policy of "coordination"?
It forced Germans society to conform to National Socialist ideology
Which leader becomes the embodiment of appeasement in the lead up to the war?
Neville Chamberlain
What's as the consequence of Franklin D Roosevelts agreement with Joseph Stalin at the Theheran Cnmference that the British Americans armies would launch frontal assault on France?
Only Soviety troops would liberate Eastern Europe
After the Second World War, the Soviet Union
Reestablished a harsh dictatorship.
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.
Where did Nazi administrators initially gain experience in mass murder?
The murder of Germans with physical and mental disabilities prior to the war
Which of the following describes Eastern Bloc living standards in the 1970s
Well below those in the West but well above those in the developing world
Between 1981 and 1989, Ronald Reagan and the U.S. Congress
cut taxes and ballooned the government deficit
In the 1950s and 1960s, what became the basic objective of all Western European governments
economic growth
Boris Yeltsin's role in the disintegration of the Soviet Union included...
emerging as a radical reform Communist who embraced the democratic movement and led Russia to declare independence from the Soviet Union
The Allies adopted the principle of the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan in order to...
further encourage mutual trust among the Allies
The postindustrial society that emerged at the end of the 1970s,
relied on high-tech and service-oriented jobs for economic growth rather than on heavy industry and manufacturing jobs.
Which two states did Nazi Germany add to its realm before World War II began on September 1, 1939?
Austria, and Czechoslovakia
What was the outcome of the decolonization of the Belgian congo
Belgium quickly withdrew from the Congo, granting it independence with irresponsible haste.
How did German chancellor Heinrich Bruning try to cope with the Great Depression in the early 1930s?
By cutting government spending and squeezing wages and prices
How did real wages for workers and peasants in the Soviet Union in 1937 compare with those in the Russian Empire in 1913?
They were lower
Which battle was the decisive turning point in the clash between the Soviet Union and Germany?
Battle of Stalingrad
Which six western European countries first set up the European Economic Community?
Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands
What characteristics did communist and fascist dictatorships share?
Both engaged in state-controlled social engineering projects meant to replace individualism with a unified "people."
Which position did Christian democrats endorse across Europe during the 1950s
Socialist economic policies
What was the result of breaking the Berlin blockade in 1948-49
The creation of two separate German states: West Germany and East Germany.
How did the Nazis manage the Northern European states that they conquered?
They established puppet government with collaborators willing to rule the states in accord with German needs
What did the leaders of the Prague Spring hope to accomplish in Czechslovakia
To reconcile socialism with internal party democracy in which local decision by trade unions and managers and condsumers would replace rigid bureaucratic planning
Following the failure of his program of nationalization and public investment in the early 1980s, French president Francois Mitterrand
was forced to introduce austerity measures