Exam 28: Red Flags and Velvet Revolutions: the End of the Cold War,1960–1990

The idea of a single,unified Europe had been the dream of many for years,a dream that was finally partly realized in 1991 with the formation of the _________,which included a single currency,a central European bank,and unified social policies.

What factors contributed to the sexual revolution?

One invention that helped further the spread of popular music was:

Arguably the most repressive dictatorship in Eastern Europe was that of Nicolae Ceausescu in:

The new culture of mass consumption in Western Europe was marked by:

Race music was the term given to the special efforts,especially within the factories,to blend the increasingly hostile ethnic groups of the Soviet Union together.

Which of the following was NOT an issue addressed by the American Civil Rights Movement,in addition to racial equality?

The last general secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union was:

Although every European country had at one point or another taken violent action against one ethnic group or another within its own borders,one group,the _________,was attacked in virtually every country in which they lived.

In the Eastern European bloc countries in the 1950s and 1960s,rock and roll or "capitalist" music

The term ethnic cleansing was coined in reference to:

One of the primary goals of the Peace Corps was to show Americans' benevolence and good intentions to foreign nations in light of the growing communist threat.

In the changing atmosphere of the world after the Second World War,education alone automatically produced social mobility.

To what does the term velvet divorce refer?

What two visions of ethnically motivated politics came into conflict in Kosovo?

After the success of the "velvet revolution" in Czechoslovakia,the first open elections resulted in the playwright _________ being elected president.

Oral contraceptives greatly affected the birthrate in the West in the 1960s.

Of all the consumer goods available to the public in the postwar period,hygiene products represented the largest increase of demand.

Which of the following statements best characterizes the status of Eastern European economies of the 1970s in comparison to their counterparts in Western Europe?

Of all the economic changes that transformed Europe following World War II,the most dramatic was in the area of: