Chapter 29 Summative Quiz
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 the Soviet Union's 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 establishment of a one—party Communist dictatorship.
Why did Europeans find postcolonial migration troublesome?
Intellectuals worried that immigrant workers would never adopt European values and customs.
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.
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.
To receive Marshall Plan aid, European states were required to cooperate with one another. What was the result of this cooperation?
The Organization for European Economic Cooperation
What was the result of breaking the Berlin blockade in 1948-49?
The creation of two separate German states: West Germany and East Germany
What does neocolonialism refer to?
The idea of a system designed to perpetuate Western economic domination and undermine political independence
After the war, why did national governments quickly establish authority over questions of guilt and punishment for those who had collaborated with the Nazi regime?
Unofficial groups were seizing and executing alleged collaborators on their own.
The ultimate goal of the plan for an international organization to coordinate coal and steel production in Europe in the 1950s was to
bind the six members of the European Coal and Steel Community so closely that war would be impossible.
Changes in the structure of European society after the Second World War were primarily the result of
economic and technological transformation.
After the Second World War, the Soviet Union
reestablished a harsh dictatorship.
