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

Although Gandhi famously chose a nonviolent form of resistance in his personal hunger strike,he urged fellow Indians to move beyond the tactics of strike,refusal of taxes,and boycotting imported goods to acts of sabotage and,in some cases,violence.

The wartime consultations between the Allies at _________ and _________ led Josef Stalin to believe that he would have a free hand in Eastern Europe following Germany's defeat.

Many books were written about the Stalinist repression of dissent.One story,_________,was about scientists who had been imprisoned to do research for the NKVD (the Soviet secret police).

Solzhenitsyn's autobiographical stories of The First Circle and The Gulag Archipelago told the stories of Stalin's regime,including the imprisonment of scientists doing research for the secret police and the memories of prisoners of the Stalinist camps.

The Soviets were excluded from the Marshall Plan.

In the late 1940s and with the concurrence of Britain,the Afrikaner government of South Africa instituted its racial policy of:

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

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

After the war,anti-Semitism was still rampant across Europe,and many blamed the Jews for bringing about the war.

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:

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

After World War II,governments continued rationing,although there was an ample supply of food,in an effort to remain self-sufficient.

In a speech given in 1947 warning against communist expansion,United States Deputy Secretary of State Dean Acheson likened the communist attempt to take over Greece to:

To further aid in the economic growth of Europe,in 1957,Western European nations formed the European Economic Community (EEC),or Common Market,with the signing of the:

The British encouraged the creation of a federated state for its African colony of _________,but it rapidly disintegrated along racial lines into separate states.

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 _________,pointed out that colonialism made their task ever more difficult.

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

Following Josef Stalin's death in 1953,many of the countries in Eastern Europe attempted to wrest some measure of independence from Moscow.Although Poland managed to establish a looser arrangement with Moscow,_________ pushed too far and was occupied by Soviet troops for a time.

The German who succeeded Adolf Hitler as chancellor of West Germany was:

Two of the most influential international agencies,the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank,were designed to establish a stable economic landscape and were established in 1944 at: