Exam 27: The Cold War World: Global Politics,Economic Recovery,and Cultural Change

Jean-Paul Sartre was the leading proponent of the twentieth-century philosophy of existentialism,which held that:

When Europe began to take sides between West and East following World War II,Yugoslavia was declared to have "taken the road to nationalism" by:

The French appeared to have won a colonial war in Vietnam in 1951,but rather than begin peace talks and arrive at depolarization on favorable terms,they fought on and eventually lost everything at the battle of:

Many books were written about the Stalinist repression of dissent.The first massive account of the Stalinist labor camps was:

The modern welfare state was a creation of the post-World War II economic boom and was first instituted in Great Britain under the Labour party prime minister:

In a 1947 speech to Congress,President Harry S.Truman set out his policy of support for the resistance of "free peoples" to communism by tying politics to economics; it would be a choice between "two ways of life." This policy was known as the:

In 1947 the Soviets organized the Cominform to help spread and coordinate worldwide communist policies and programs.

President Dwight D.Eisenhower delivered a farewell address to the United States in which he warned that:

De Gaulle created the First Republic in France in 1958 by insisting on a new constitution for the nation.

What was the impact of the war on European empires?

During the first decades of economic recovery following World War II,one country,_________,had a high demand for workers.Transient workers from all over Europe were drawn by the high demand for labor.

During the mid-1950s,Eastern Europe experienced a great many disruptions that were triggered by:

The postwar world faced the moral dilemmas of war,occupation,and resistance,and were expressed in that period through:

Even with Nikita Khrushchev's desire to improve relations with the West and reduce tensions,military events occasionally escalated almost to the point of war,as in 1962,when:

Although the war in Indochina was hard on the French,the war in Algeria was much harder since it involved fighting on three fronts: a guerrilla war in the countryside,a war of terror fought in Algeria's cities,and a war:

What process was referred to as the making of "an Iron Curtain"?

Which of the following was NOT an important element of the Marshall Plan?

In 1958 a revolution in _______brought communism closer to the United States.

In what ways were Khrushchev's policies a "thawing" of Stalinist ideals and practice?

Many Western intellectuals sought to revive humanism and democratic values after the horrors of World War II; a group of writers,one of them being _________,argued that the notion of Négritude was not an effective response to racism.