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

During the Vietnam War,many people opposed to the war took direct action against it by refusing to register for the draft or refusing induction into the armed forces.Among those who encouraged this action were Dr.Benjamin Spock,the nation's leading pediatrician,and _________,the chaplain of Yale University.

Which of the following was an immediate political consequence of the events of 1968?

Contrast the goals and methods of Martin Luther King Jr.and Malcolm X.

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

The emergence of new black nations in Africa and the Caribbean greatly influenced the African American insurgency in the United States.

How did new patterns of consumption spur changes in mass culture?

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.

Which of the following is NOT true of culture in the 1950s and 1960s?

One style with the abstract expressionist movement involved painting rectangles of muted color overlaid on other colored rectangles and was developed by:

The political unrest in Eastern Europe that had surfaced in 1968 peaked again in 1980 with the rise of a politicized labor union in Poland; _________ organized strikes that threatened to bring the government down.

To what other year,packed with events and uncertainty,has 1968 frequently been compared?

The hopes raised by the changes in Eastern Europe in the late 1980s were,by 1989:

By the 1960s,industrial labor meant something far different than it did in the nineteenth century.

The new culture of mass consumption in Western Europe was marked by all of the following EXCEPT:

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

What factors combined to breed antiwar sentiment in America over the Vietnam War?

Which of the following did NOT endure and grow following the 1960s?

What were the goals of the feminist movement?

In November 1989 the embodiment of the Cold War,the _________,was torn down by ordinary citizens.

One of the contributing factors to the "sexual revolution" of the 1960s was the ready availability of: