Exam 25: Superpower Struggles and Global Transformations: The Cold War,1945-1980s

Leading the movement for colonial independence in India was ________.

The oil crisis and "stagflation" of the 1970s led to

The existential world was an amoral, purposeless world where individuals had to take personal responsibility for their actions.

The Author of The Second Sex, a major analysis of the condition of women in the twentieth century, was ________.

Twentieth century medicine has accomplished all of the following except

A popular philosophy after World War II, exemplified by Jean-Paul Sartre, was

The détente demonstrated in the Helsinki accords lasted well into the 1980s.

The newly independent African countries were generally democratic in both form and spirit.

After World War II, Asia and Africa

The post-1945 European military alliance promoted by the United States was the _______.

The organization established in the late 1950s that eliminated tariff barriers between members and started to promote European economic integration was the ________.

By the 1980s, in the major industrial countries, the agricultural population was about ten percent of the total-almost the reverse of what usually prevailed throughout the history of most civilizations.

Great Britain was able to regain control of the Suez Canal in 1956 because of Israel's defeat of Egypt.

During the era of 1940-1990, South Africa was notorious for its very rigid racial segregation.

Which of the following was not developed by "big science" during or after World War II?

In 1964 Brezhnev replaced Khrushchev as the supreme Soviet leader.

The part of Europe that probably suffered the most from domestic terrorism in the 1970s and 1980s was

Western Europe between 1955 and 1980

The era 1945-1980 in European history can be described as the era of

What have been the major social changes during the era of "postindustrial" society?