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

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

In the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev,education was aimed at:

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.

One of the most divisive events in the United States during the 1960s,and one that aggravated other social and political tensions,was the:

What was one of the first consequences of the Soviet policy of glasnost in Eastern Europe?

Film directors such as François Truffaut,Jean-Luc Godard,and represented a new type of direction known as the _________ school.

Following World War II,the one segment of the work force that expanded most rapidly was:

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

Popular dissatisfaction with government organization of mass consumption contributed to the downfall of communist regimes.

In the United States,the feminist movement centered on a single,national organization founded in 1966.That movement was known by its acronym:

Which of the following was NOT a result of to the dissolution of the Soviet Union?

Which political act played a significant role in compounding the economic stagnation of Western Europe in the early 1970s?

Transformations of land and agriculture resulted in dramatic changes that enabled Germany,for example,to enjoy a 600 percent increase in the ability to feed its people by 1980.

For feminists of the nineteenth century,obtaining the vote was a central goal.Twentieth-century feminists focused on social changes and social equality.The leading French theorist of the movement was:

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

Alfred Kinsey was a former zoologist who studied sexual attraction in humans.

The Russian term perestroika refers to a:

Film in the changing mass culture put the emphasis on the actor,not the writer,and elevated many to superstardom.

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

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.