Western Civ: chapter 28-30 quiz

the demand by many French-speaking Canadians that the province of Quebec become independent of the rest of Canada

A continuing problem roiling Canadian politics for the past several decades has been...

a persistent decline in birth rates across Europe, with Spain's becoming the lowest in the world

A dramatic social development affecting the status and expectations of women in Western Europe since the 1960s has been...

Stalins desire to establish pro soviet governments in the countries of Eastern Europe to serve as a buffer zone against possible western attacks on the Soviet Union

A key factor contributing to the development of the Cold War in Eastern Europe was...

serialism

A major trend in music since World War II, as best expressed in the works of Olivier Messiaen, has been...

it has displaced cultural uniqueness and bodily presence

A serious criticism of the Digital Age is...

southern whites

After his election to the presidency in 1968, Richard Nixon pursued a "southern strategy" by creating policies designed to appeal to...

a renewed Communist Party majority which took over the government

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia struggled with all of the following EXCEPT:

the collapse of labor unions

All of the following is characteristic of the US in the 1950s EXCEPT...

Working women received equal pay with men by the 1960's

All of the following statements regarding women in the post-war era are correct EXCEPT...

algeria

Although France granted full independence to Morocco and Tunisia in 1956, it attempted to retain its dominion in...

been the primary vehicle for the diffusion of American popular culture throughout the world

American motion pictures in the postwar years have...

the overthrow of Fidel Castro in Cuba

An American-supported invasion of the Bay of Pigs in 1961 had as its mission...

pledged the two nations to limit their development of anti-ballistic missile systems, thus avoiding a new arms race

An appropriate symbol of detente between Russia and America was the ABM Treaty of 1972 that...

Grace Hopper

An important figure in the development of an early computer and the inventor of the computer language COBOL was...

the reinforcement of the American determination to "contain" Soviet power

An overall effect of the Korean War on the Cold War was...

Make France the "third" nuclear power and pursue a largely independent political course

As president of France, Charles de Gaulle's position in the Cold War was to...

condemned Stalin

At the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party in 1956, Khrushchev...

the Soviet Union and the US

At the close of WWII, the European tradition of power politics was inherited by...

moderate political parties

By 1950 Western Europe saw the political comeback of...

China

By the mid-1960s, the primary concern of the United States was...

1950

Despite WWII's devastating impact of the countries, cities, peoples, and cultures of Europe, Europe's industrial and agricultural output was 30% higher than prewar levels by...

Czechoslovakia

Due to its strong democratic traditions, the last Eastern European country to fall under Soviet, one-party domination after WWII was...

The economic policies of Stalin

Emphasized the development of heavy industry and the production of modern weapons and space vehicles

Italy

Eurocommunism was most successful in...

the US

Following WWII, the country that dominated the art world was...

India

Following WWII, this place became two new countries, one Hindu and one Muslim

Taiwan

In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek transferred the Chinese Nationalist government from the mainland to...

declared his nation's right to follow its own socialist path

In 1956 in Poland, Wladyslaw Gomulka...

Vietnam

In 1965, President Charles de Gaulle of France called the United States "the greatest danger in the world today to peace" because of U.S. policy in...

"Prague Spring"

In Czechoslovakia, and was brought to an abrupt end by the Red Army

women were always and wrongly defined by their differences from men and consequently seen as second-class beings

In her path-breaking, The Second Sex, the influential French feminist author Simone de Beauvoir argued that...

a global village

In the 1960s, Marshall McLuhan predicted that the scenario for the future would be...

declining enrollments

In the 1960s, college and university students complained and demonstrated against all of the following EXCEPT:

the Sex Pistols

In the late 1970s, punk rock music was exemplified by...

experienced many of the same developments as the US

In the postwar world, Canada..

The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962

It concluded with improved communications b/w the US and the Soviet Union to prevent nuclear war

after his rash plan to place missiles in Cuba

Khrushchev's unpopularity with the Communist Party reached its apex...

Britain

One country that was NOT an original member of the European Coal and Steel Community was...

Photorealism

Postmodernism in art could include all of the following EXCEPT...

the hegemony of the Christian Democrats with backing from the Catholic Church

Postwar Italian politics was characterized by...

science and technology

Small Is Beautiful is a fundamental critique of the dangers of...

E.F. Schumacher

Small Is Beautiful was written by...

some people detested what they saw as the lawlessness of the privileged

Student protests in Europe backfired to an extent as...

old rulers

The "four olds" targeted during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution included all of the following EXCEPT...

Abstract Expressionist paintings

The American artist Jackson Pollock was most noted for...

minimalism

The American composer Philip Glass is associated with an acclaimed offshoot of serialism combining elements of classical and popular music in repeated tonal forms and known as...

Ronald Reagan

The American president who helped maintain a Vietnam-like war in Afghanistan by aiding anti-Soviet insurgents was...

Richard Nixon

The American president who journeyed to the People's Republic of China in 1972 was...

Lyndon Johnson

The American president who made the decision to bomb North Vietnam and who significantly increased the number of American troops in the Second Vietnam War was...

Alan Turing

The British mathematician who designed a computer that assisted in breaking the secret German codes during World War II was...

Massive Retaliation

The Cold War policy adopted in the mid-1950s by the EXCEPT...

Warsaw Pact

The Communist military response to the formation of NATO was the...

establishing a virtual dictatorship by using the Stasi or secret police in the 1970s and 1980s

The East German leader Erich Honecker was most noted for...

Milan Kundera

The European writer who used fantasy to examine moral issues and who remained confident about the human condition was...

Sukarno

The Indonesian president who was suspicious of the West, sought economic aid from China and the Soviet Union, and relied at home on a native communist party was...

Gamal Abdul Nasser

The Middle Eastern political leader who promoted Pan-Arabism and who advocated a sharing of Middle Eastern oil wealth equally among the Arab states was...

Kent State University

The Ohio National Guard killed four student protesters in 1970 at...

Securitate

The Romanian secret police force was called the...

was outlawed in 1981 and its leaders arrested

The Solidarity movement in Poland...

1957

The Soviet launch of Sputnik occurred in...

condemn the victory of the Communists in the Chinese civil war

The Truman Doctrine did all of the following EXCEPT...

the weakness of the British in the eastern Mediterranean

The Truman Doctrine was a consequence of Truman's alarm over...

Yugoslavia

The Warsaw Pact included all of the following nations EXCEPT...

Willy Brandt

The West German chancellor whose policy of Ostpolitikimproved relations with East Germany was...

Betty Friedan

The author of The Feminine Mystique who was also a founder of the National Organization of Women was...

the Marshall Plan

The belief that Communist aggression fed off of economic turmoil was instrumental in the formulation of...

saw the Supreme Court approve the concept of "separate but equal" in public schools

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s included all of the following EXCEPT...

Detente

The doctrine that eased Cold War tensions in the 1970s is known as...

stagflation

The economic problems of the United States in the 1970s have been labeled...

Eastern Europe

The first area of conflict in the unfolding of the Cold War was...

Konrad Adenauer

The first chancellor and "founding hero" of the West German Federal Republic was...

Albania

The founding members of NATO included all of the following EXCEPT...

that the sinful and imperfect nature of humans means that they can know religious truth not through reason but only through the grace of God

The horrors of 2 world wars, the Cold War, and attendant socio-cultural upheavals have also stimulated a late twentieth-century religious revival exemplified in the works of Karl Barth, who has argued...

his inability to gain the release of American hostages held in Iran

The issue that led to Jimmy Carter's defeat in 1980 was...

One Hundred Years of Solitude

The literary work employing "magic realism" is...

the World Cup

The most watched event on television is...

palestine

The one issue on which the Arab states were united was...

the division of Vietnam into antagonistic northern and southern states occurred after Vietnamese military forces had defeated the French, former governors of the region

The origins of the Vietnam War, in part, lie in the process of decolonization because...

best expressed in the works of the French writers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre

The philosophical doctrine of existentialism, with its emphasis on God as a fiction, no preordained human destiny, and the human creation of all values was...

more than doubled the national debt

The policies of Ronald Reagan...

containment

The policy created in 1947 and used by the Americans against Communism was called...

a writers rebellion

The resignation of Antonin Novotny in Czechoslovakia was precipitated by...

white-collar management and administrative personnel

The social structure of the postwar European society has been greatly affected by a dramatic increase in the number of...

Bob Dylan

The song "The Times They Are A-Changin'" was written by...

Black September

The terrorist group who murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games was the...

airlifting supplies into Berlin

Truman and his Western European allies responded to Stalin's blockade of Berlin in 1948 by...

the protection of human rights globally

Under the U.S. presidency of Jimmy Carter, a major goal of American foreign policy was...

there would be wars that the superpowers could not win against a strong nationalist and guerrilla-type opposition

Wars like the ones in Vietnam and Afghanistan demonstrated that...

The conservative party in the 1950s and 1960s revoked nearly all of the welfare legislation passed by the Labour party in the 1940s

Which of the following statements concerning postwar Great Britain is FALSE?

The leadership of Tito, who asserted Yugoslavias independence from the Soviet Union

Yugoslavia from WWII through 1960 was characterized by...

Great Britain under Margaret Thatcher

experienced a large military buildup and hard-line approach against communism

A transnational corporation

is defined as a company that has divisions in more than two countries

The Vietnam War

it showed the limitations of American power, leading to improved Soviet-American relations

European Green movements

made average people aware of environmental problems and gained a variety of local and national political offices

The 1975 Helsinki Agreements

recognized all borders in central and eastern Europe established since World War II, thereby acknowledging a Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe

Existentialism

stressed the need for people to create their own values and give their lives meaning

Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man

theorized that unindoctrinated students could liberate the masses from their elite oppressors

Brezhnev Doctrine

under this the Soviets declared the right of intervention if a socialist state were threatened...

The Great Leap Forward

was Mao Zedong's effort to achieve a classless society and the final stage of communism

The common market

was founded for economic reasons, including to promote free trade among member nations