Question 1

Between 1947 and 1962, virtually every European colony gained independence.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  True

Question 2

The United States intervened in Korea after the Soviets built missile launching sites in key North Korean cities.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False  False

Question 3

Which country was a member of the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)?

Accepted Answer

A) Poland 
B) West Germany 
C) Turkey 
D) Hungary 
E) France 
A) Poland 
B) West Germany 
C) Turkey 
D) Hungary 
E) France C

Question 4

Which city came to dominate the post-World War II art world?

Accepted Answer

A) New York City 
B) Paris 
C) Berlin 
D) London 
E) Rome 
A) New York City 
B) Paris 
C) Berlin 
D) London 
E) Rome

Question 5

Khrushchev transformed the Soviet economy, producing record annual rates of growth.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

What was De Gaul's vision for France? What steps did he take to try to make that vision a reality?

Accepted Answer

Charles de Gaulle's vision for France wa

Question 7

Ho Chi Minh was a(n) ____ nationalist and communist.

Accepted Answer

A) Korean 
B) Vietnamese 
C) Cambodian 
D) Indonesian 
E) Burmese 
A) Korean 
B) Vietnamese 
C) Cambodian 
D) Indonesian 
E) Burmese

Question 8

Describe the course of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the first three decades following World War II.

Accepted Answer

The Arab-Israeli conflict in the first t

Question 9

What statement best describes the impact of Stalin's economic policies?

Accepted Answer

A) They completely overtaxed a war-damaged industrial plant. 
B) They were unrealistic since Russia lacked accessible natural resources and fossil fuels. 
C) They managed to produce both "guns and butter," that is rearmed the Soviet military while providing cheap and plentiful consumer goods. 
D) They instituted modified free-market capitalism in all economic areas but heavy industry. 
E) They emphasized the development of heavy industry and the production of modern weapons and space vehicles. 
A) They completely overtaxed a war-damaged industrial plant. 
B) They were unrealistic since Russia lacked accessible natural resources and fossil fuels. 
C) They managed to produce both "guns and butter," that is rearmed the Soviet military while providing cheap and plentiful consumer goods. 
D) They instituted modified free-market capitalism in all economic areas but heavy industry. 
E) They emphasized the development of heavy industry and the production of modern weapons and space vehicles.

Question 10

Which European social group grew during the 1950s and 1960s?

Accepted Answer

A) Industrial workers 
B) Rural, agricultural laborers 
C) Independent farmers 
D) Military personnel 
E) White-collar management and administrative personnel 
A) Industrial workers 
B) Rural, agricultural laborers 
C) Independent farmers 
D) Military personnel 
E) White-collar management and administrative personnel

Question 11

In 1959, ____ dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by left-wing revolutionaries.

Accepted Answer

A) Spanish 
B) Mexican 
C) Portuguese 
D) Cuban 
E) Columbian 
A) Spanish 
B) Mexican 
C) Portuguese 
D) Cuban 
E) Columbian

Question 12

When did television become readily available in the United States?

Accepted Answer

A) The early 1930s 
B) The late 1940s 
C) The late 1950s 
D) The early 1960s 
E) The early 1970s 
A) The early 1930s 
B) The late 1940s 
C) The late 1950s 
D) The early 1960s 
E) The early 1970s

Question 13

What was the name of the system of racial segregation in South Africa?

Accepted Answer

A) Jim Crow 
B) Apartheid 
C) Rapprochement 
D) Final Solution 
E) Aryan supremacy 
A) Jim Crow 
B) Apartheid 
C) Rapprochement 
D) Final Solution 
E) Aryan supremacy

Question 14

The Soviet blockade of Berlin was prompted by the efforts of the United States, France, and Britain to unify their zones of control within the city.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

What did French feminist author Simone de Beauvoir argue in her path-breaking text, The Second Sex?

Accepted Answer

A) Women should renounce contact with men and set up their own self-governing communes. 
B) Women were always and wrongly defined by their differences from men and consequently seen as second-class beings. 
C) World War II had legitimated the political advantages and hegemonic power of males. 
D) A "sexual revolution" was impossible. 
E) There was absolutely no hope in improving the status of women in the near future. 
A) Women should renounce contact with men and set up their own self-governing communes. 
B) Women were always and wrongly defined by their differences from men and consequently seen as second-class beings. 
C) World War II had legitimated the political advantages and hegemonic power of males. 
D) A "sexual revolution" was impossible. 
E) There was absolutely no hope in improving the status of women in the near future.

Question 16

In 1954, ____ lost its struggle to remain in control of Indochina.

Accepted Answer

A) Japan 
B) Britain 
C) China 
D) France 
E) the Netherlands 
A) Japan 
B) Britain 
C) China 
D) France 
E) the Netherlands

Question 17

Between 1950 and 1965, ____ in West Germany.

Accepted Answer

A) the economy stagnated 
B) the military controlled the government 
C) real wages doubled 
D) inflation skyrocketed out of control 
E) the population steadily declined 
A) the economy stagnated 
B) the military controlled the government 
C) real wages doubled 
D) inflation skyrocketed out of control 
E) the population steadily declined

Question 18

What was true of women in the workplace in Europe in the postwar era?

Accepted Answer

A) They made up a smaller percentage of the workforce than they had before the war. 
B) They earned less than men for the same work. 
C) They were strictly confined to traditional female occupations. 
D) They were almost entirely single women. 
E) They were encouraged by their governments to challenge gender discrimination. 
A) They made up a smaller percentage of the workforce than they had before the war. 
B) They earned less than men for the same work. 
C) They were strictly confined to traditional female occupations. 
D) They were almost entirely single women. 
E) They were encouraged by their governments to challenge gender discrimination.

Question 19

How did Truman and his Western European allies respond to Stalin's blockade of Berlin in 1948?

Accepted Answer

A) Building the Berlin Wall 
B) Airlifting supplies into Berlin 
C) Bombing Moscow 
D) Sending a UN force to reopen the access routes 
E) Threatening nuclear war 
A) Building the Berlin Wall 
B) Airlifting supplies into Berlin 
C) Bombing Moscow 
D) Sending a UN force to reopen the access routes 
E) Threatening nuclear war

Question 20

What did Karl Barth argue in his works during the religious revivals stimulated by the horrors of two world wars, the Cold War, and attendant socio-cultural upheavals?

Accepted Answer

A) He argued that the Bible is the literal word of God and that salvation and consolation comes from accepting that "truth." 
B) He argued that the Bible, although not inherently true, still gives the best instruction for moral behavior. 
C) He argued 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. 
D) He argued that the mystery religions of Asia and the Middle East give humans a more transcendent sense of the divine and should come to replace Christian bigotry. 
E) He argued that a diversity of religious beliefs, including such "New Age" practices as witchcraft, the worship of healing rock crystals, and devotion to Gaia the Earth Mother, is a healthy sign of a new spiritualism in Western Civilization. 
A) He argued that the Bible is the literal word of God and that salvation and consolation comes from accepting that "truth." 
B) He argued that the Bible, although not inherently true, still gives the best instruction for moral behavior. 
C) He argued 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. 
D) He argued that the mystery religions of Asia and the Middle East give humans a more transcendent sense of the divine and should come to replace Christian bigotry. 
E) He argued that a diversity of religious beliefs, including such "New Age" practices as witchcraft, the worship of healing rock crystals, and devotion to Gaia the Earth Mother, is a healthy sign of a new spiritualism in Western Civilization.

Between 1947 and 1962, virtually every European colony gained independence.

The United States intervened in Korea after the Soviets built missile launching sites in key North Korean cities.

Which country was a member of the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)?

Which city came to dominate the post-World War II art world?

Khrushchev transformed the Soviet economy, producing record annual rates of growth.

What was De Gaul's vision for France? What steps did he take to try to make that vision a reality?

Ho Chi Minh was a(n) ____ nationalist and communist.

Describe the course of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the first three decades following World War II.

What statement best describes the impact of Stalin's economic policies?

Which European social group grew during the 1950s and 1960s?

In 1959, ____ dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by left-wing revolutionaries.

When did television become readily available in the United States?

What was the name of the system of racial segregation in South Africa?

The Soviet blockade of Berlin was prompted by the efforts of the United States, France, and Britain to unify their zones of control within the city.

What did French feminist author Simone de Beauvoir argue in her path-breaking text, The Second Sex?

In 1954, ____ lost its struggle to remain in control of Indochina.

Between 1950 and 1965, ____ in West Germany.

What was true of women in the workplace in Europe in the postwar era?

How did Truman and his Western European allies respond to Stalin's blockade of Berlin in 1948?

What did Karl Barth argue in his works during the religious revivals stimulated by the horrors of two world wars, the Cold War, and attendant socio-cultural upheavals?

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States International Wars and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction Revolution and Romanticism 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism 1850-1871

Mass Society in an Age of Progress 1871-1894

An Age of Modernity Anxiety and Imperialism 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War 2

Protest and Stagnation: the Western World 1965-1985

After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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Exam 15: Cold War and a New Western World 1945-1965

Between 1947 and 1962, virtually every European colony gained independence.

The United States intervened in Korea after the Soviets built missile launching sites in key North Korean cities.

Which country was a member of the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)?

Which city came to dominate the post-World War II art world?

Khrushchev transformed the Soviet economy, producing record annual rates of growth.

What was De Gaul's vision for France? What steps did he take to try to make that vision a reality?

Ho Chi Minh was a(n) ____ nationalist and communist.

Describe the course of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the first three decades following World War II.

What statement best describes the impact of Stalin's economic policies?

Which European social group grew during the 1950s and 1960s?

In 1959, ____ dictator Fulgencio Batista was overthrown by left-wing revolutionaries.

When did television become readily available in the United States?

What was the name of the system of racial segregation in South Africa?

The Soviet blockade of Berlin was prompted by the efforts of the United States, France, and Britain to unify their zones of control within the city.

What did French feminist author Simone de Beauvoir argue in her path-breaking text, The Second Sex?

In 1954, ____ lost its struggle to remain in control of Indochina.

Between 1950 and 1965, ____ in West Germany.

What was true of women in the workplace in Europe in the postwar era?

How did Truman and his Western European allies respond to Stalin's blockade of Berlin in 1948?

What did Karl Barth argue in his works during the religious revivals stimulated by the horrors of two world wars, the Cold War, and attendant socio-cultural upheavals?

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

Europe and the World: New Encounters 1500-1800

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

The Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

The Eighteenth Century: European States International Wars and Social Change

A Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

Reaction Revolution and Romanticism 1815-1850

An Age of Nationalism and Realism 1850-1871

Mass Society in an Age of Progress 1871-1894

An Age of Modernity Anxiety and Imperialism 1894-1914

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars 1919-1939

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War 2

Protest and Stagnation: the Western World 1965-1985

After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

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