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

Which of the following Yugoslav republics first touched off the round of ethnic secessions from that nation in the early 1990s?

One consequence of the economic stagnation of the 1970s was:

Although he had backed Mikhail Gorbachev in the summer of 1991,Boris Yeltsin,from his position as _________,joined with others to declare the end of the Soviet Union in the fall of 1991.

Some of the innovation in film in this period involved the use of color and widescreen technology.

The American Civil Rights Movement headed by Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.embraced the philosophy of nonviolence espoused by the Indian social and political activist:

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

The "British invasion" was a group of successful British rock and roll bands that blended the American sounds of the new music of the 1960s with the inflections of their own poverty and defiance and added touches of music-hall showmanship.

For some,a perhaps unexpected consequence of the cultural revolution of the 1950s and 1960s was the:

While many Western countries condemned the war in Vietnam,student protests remained a peculiarly American method of challenging government decisions.

While most African American leaders in the 1960s were working within the Civil Rights Movement,some sought complete independence from white society.The most influential of these nationalist leaders was:

Although the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s is remembered mostly as an event occurring in the United States,it was a Western phenomenon caused,in the view of many,primarily by:

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

What factors contributed to the sexual revolution?

The economic transformation that Western Europe experienced in the decades following World War II was,for the Eastern bloc:

Though harshly repressed in Russia,rock and roll made its way into the Soviet Union; pirated records were copied onto X-ray plates salvaged from hospitals.

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

How did governmental support of compulsory education impact the mass culture of the 1960s?

To what does the term velvet divorce refer?

Which of the following were immediate causes of the unrest in Paris during 1968?

In the years following the collapse of the Soviet Bloc,the most violent ethnic conflict occurred in: