Question 1

What was the primary cause of the arms race during the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

A)  Fear of mutually assured destruction. 
B)  Neither country had sufficient intelligence information to judge the other's capacity for destruction, and the stockpiles escalated. 
C)  Demonstration of scientific superiority. 
D)  Stimulation of a military industrial economy. 
E)  None of these. 
A)  Fear of mutually assured destruction. 
B)  Neither country had sufficient intelligence information to judge the other's capacity for destruction, and the stockpiles escalated. 
C)  Demonstration of scientific superiority. 
D)  Stimulation of a military industrial economy. 
E)  None of these. B

Question 2

Stalin was an enthusiastic supporter of Tito's hybridized communism in Yugoslavia.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 3

Which was the only country in Eastern Europe in which the communist victory was due to internal forces as opposed to force from Moscow?

Accepted Answer

A)  Yugoslavia 
B)  Hungary 
C)  Romania 
D)  Bulgaria 
E)  Poland 
A)  Yugoslavia 
B)  Hungary 
C)  Romania 
D)  Bulgaria 
E)  Poland A

Question 4

Displaced Jews found a new home in

Accepted Answer

A)  Israel. 
B)  Syria. 
C)  Persia. 
D)  Yugoslavia. 
E)  Cyprus. 
A)  Israel. 
B)  Syria. 
C)  Persia. 
D)  Yugoslavia. 
E)  Cyprus.

Question 5

In response to criticism from the West about the dismantling of German industries despite the humanitarian needs of the German population,the USSR implemented a blockade of

Accepted Answer

A)  Budapest. 
B)    
C)  Berlin. 
D)  Prague. 
E)  Istanbul. 
A)  Budapest. 
B)    
C)  Berlin. 
D)  Prague. 
E)  Istanbul.

Question 6

The Warsaw Pact was created to be the eastern version of NATO.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

How were the state-controlled economies in eastern Europe held from growth compared to the West?

Accepted Answer

The state-controlled economies in easter

Question 8

As a result of the Marshall Plan,by 1960,the leader of the western European economy was

Accepted Answer

A)  Britain. 
B)  France. 
C)  West Germany. 
D)  Italy. 
E)  Austria. 
A)  Britain. 
B)  France. 
C)  West Germany. 
D)  Italy. 
E)  Austria.

Question 9

What was the primary reason for France's refusal to relinquish Algeria?

Accepted Answer

A)  Racial divide 
B)  Algeria's majority Muslim population 
C)  Oil deposits made it too valuable 
D)  Humiliation at their defeat at Dem Bien Phu 
E)  The demand came from the United Nations, which De Gaulle rejected 
A)  Racial divide 
B)  Algeria's majority Muslim population 
C)  Oil deposits made it too valuable 
D)  Humiliation at their defeat at Dem Bien Phu 
E)  The demand came from the United Nations, which De Gaulle rejected

Question 10

What were the Nuremburg Trials?

Accepted Answer

A)  Laws restricting Jews in Germany that prohibited intermarriage 
B)  The establishment of a provisional government for Germany centered in Nuremburg 
C)  De-Nazification war crime tribunals 
D)  The lawsuit brought against the leaders of collaboration governments 
E)  A repatriation of remaining German Jews into the city of Nuremburg in an act of reparation 
A)  Laws restricting Jews in Germany that prohibited intermarriage 
B)  The establishment of a provisional government for Germany centered in Nuremburg 
C)  De-Nazification war crime tribunals 
D)  The lawsuit brought against the leaders of collaboration governments 
E)  A repatriation of remaining German Jews into the city of Nuremburg in an act of reparation

Question 11

Soviet economic control eschewed the command economy in Russia to demand specialized production in the satellite nations.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

The United States risked conflict with the Soviet Union to support the Hungarian Uprising.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

According to the percentages agreement between Churchill and Stalin,the two countries that were to be divided into a fifty-fifty arrangement were

Accepted Answer

A)  Austria and Hungary. 
B)  Poland and Czechoslovakia. 
C)  Yugoslavia and Hungary. 
D)  Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. 
E)  Poland and Hungary. 
A)  Austria and Hungary. 
B)  Poland and Czechoslovakia. 
C)  Yugoslavia and Hungary. 
D)  Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. 
E)  Poland and Hungary.

Question 14

Decolonization was led by which European power?

Accepted Answer

A)  Britain 
B)  France 
C)  Italy 
D)  Germany 
E)  Yugoslavia 
A)  Britain 
B)  France 
C)  Italy 
D)  Germany 
E)  Yugoslavia

Question 15

What was Charles de Gaulle's political affiliation?

Accepted Answer

A)  Socialist. 
B)  Monarchist. 
C)  Republican 
D)  Communist. 
E)  Totalitarian. 
A)  Socialist. 
B)  Monarchist. 
C)  Republican 
D)  Communist. 
E)  Totalitarian.

Question 16

All of the following were areas of cooperation among the EEC members except

Accepted Answer

A)  administrative. 
B)  legislative. 
C)  executive. 
D)  judicial. 
E)  economic. 
A)  administrative. 
B)  legislative. 
C)  executive. 
D)  judicial. 
E)  economic.

Question 17

Who was the Zionist leader instrumental in founding the state of Israel amidst Palestine?

Accepted Answer

A)  Moshe Diane 
B)  Golda Meir. 
C)  David Ben-Gurion 
D)  Amos Oz 
E)  Benjamin Disraeli. 
A)  Moshe Diane 
B)  Golda Meir. 
C)  David Ben-Gurion 
D)  Amos Oz 
E)  Benjamin Disraeli.

Question 18

Analyze the economic and social recovery programs instituted under Clement Attlee's Labour Party.

Accepted Answer

Taking over after Churchill in 1945,the

Question 19

The first superpower confrontation over decolonized territory was in

Accepted Answer

A)  Cuba. 
B)  North Korea. 
C)  China. 
D)  Vietnam. 
E)  India. 
A)  Cuba. 
B)  North Korea. 
C)  China. 
D)  Vietnam. 
E)  India.

Question 20

What was not accomplished at the Second Vatican Council?

Accepted Answer

A)  Allowed the church to use local languages instead of Latin 
B)  Gave reformist bishops more autonomy 
C)  Allowed greater participation in social activism 
D)  Pope John XXIII's apology for the papacy's actions during the Holocaust. 
E)  A refining of practice while still adhering to the church's primary mission 
A)  Allowed the church to use local languages instead of Latin 
B)  Gave reformist bishops more autonomy 
C)  Allowed greater participation in social activism 
D)  Pope John XXIII's apology for the papacy's actions during the Holocaust. 
E)  A refining of practice while still adhering to the church's primary mission

Exam 28: Europe Divided,1945-1968

What was the primary cause of the arms race during the Cold War?

Stalin was an enthusiastic supporter of Tito's hybridized communism in Yugoslavia.

Which was the only country in Eastern Europe in which the communist victory was due to internal forces as opposed to force from Moscow?

Displaced Jews found a new home in

In response to criticism from the West about the dismantling of German industries despite the humanitarian needs of the German population,the USSR implemented a blockade of

The Warsaw Pact was created to be the eastern version of NATO.

How were the state-controlled economies in eastern Europe held from growth compared to the West?

As a result of the Marshall Plan,by 1960,the leader of the western European economy was

What was the primary reason for France's refusal to relinquish Algeria?

What were the Nuremburg Trials?

Soviet economic control eschewed the command economy in Russia to demand specialized production in the satellite nations.

The United States risked conflict with the Soviet Union to support the Hungarian Uprising.

According to the percentages agreement between Churchill and Stalin,the two countries that were to be divided into a fifty-fifty arrangement were

Decolonization was led by which European power?

What was Charles de Gaulle's political affiliation?

All of the following were areas of cooperation among the EEC members except

Who was the Zionist leader instrumental in founding the state of Israel amidst Palestine?

Analyze the economic and social recovery programs instituted under Clement Attlee's Labour Party.

The first superpower confrontation over decolonized territory was in

What was not accomplished at the Second Vatican Council?

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