Deck 29: Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965–1985.

Question 1

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University of Nanterre, 1968

Answer 1

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Question 2

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Brezhnev Doctrine

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Question 3

Would "Americanization" be the proper word to use when describing the popular culture of the Western world since World War II? Why and/or why not? Be specific.

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Question 4

Were the ongoing processes of globalization doing more to benefit the interests of the few or the many? Be sure to provide evidence from theChapter for the answer.

Question 5

What major economic problems and consequences plagued the West during the 1970s? How did the U.S., Europe, and the Soviet Union each attempt to resolve these problems? Which country or policies had the greatest success and why?

Question 6

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the birth control pill

Question 7

Discuss the causes and consequences of the protest movements of the 1960s, including successes and failures.

Question 8

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Antiwar protests and Kent State

Question 9

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"love-ins"

Question 10

What led to the post-World War II feminist movement? What were its goals?

Question 11

Taking into consideration the entire spectrum of human affairs, what was Western Civilization's greatest challenge between 1965 and 1985? Why do you think this was more challenging than other important issues of the day?

Question 12

Would it be accurate to say that all, or at least most, of the popular culture of this period was Postmodern? Explain.

Question 13

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marijuana

Question 14

Identify and discuss the causes and consequences of the student rebellions of the 1960s and 1970s.

Question 15

Discuss the impact of the birth control pill and the sexual revolution upon western society. Give examples.

Question 16

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Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique

Question 17

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permissive society

Question 18

Compare and contrast the American war in Vietnam and the Soviet Union's conflict in Afghanistan. In what ways were they similar? In what ways were they markedly different?

Question 19

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Timothy Leary and LSD

Question 20

Between 1965 and 1985, did new technologies and new scientific discoveries do more to benefit or to harm the planet and its inhabitants? Explain.

Question 21

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the Berlin Wall

Question 22

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Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik

Question 23

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Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker

Question 24

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the "Reagan revolution" and "supply-side economics"

Question 25

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the United States and Vietnam

Question 26

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domino theory

Question 27

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Falklands Islands

Question 28

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France's François Mitterrand

Question 29

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Lech Walesa and Solidarity

Question 30

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the European Community/EC

Question 31

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Pierre Trudeau

Question 32

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the Vietcong

Question 33

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feminism

Question 34

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Watergate

Question 35

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Richard Nixon's "southern strategy"

Question 36

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Thatcherism

Question 37

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Margaret Thatcher

Question 38

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stagflation

Question 39

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Ayatollah Khomeini and American hostages

Question 40

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the Prague Spring

Question 41

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E.F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful

Question 42

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Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach

Question 43

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Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Question 44

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"equivalence"

Question 45

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"mass sports"

Question 46

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Helsinki Accords (1975)

Question 47

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Michel Foucault

Question 48

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the "four olds" and "permanent revolution" and the Red Guards

Question 49

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Postmodernism

Question 50

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Chernobyl, 1986

Question 51

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"peace and love"

Question 52

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Allen Kaprow and "happenings"

Question 53

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Mao Zedong and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Question 54

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poststructuralism (deconstructionism)

Question 55

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"evil empire"

Question 56

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Antiballistic Missile Treaty (1972)

Question 57

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Nixon and Zedong's "strategic relationship"

Question 58

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Green parties

Question 59

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Grace Hopper and COBOL

Question 60

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détente

Question 61

What is true about the Solidarity movement in Poland?

A)It was temporarily crushed by General Lech Walesa in 1981.
B)It failed to gain massive support due to stiff opposition from the conservative Catholic church.
C)It was formed by Wladyslaw Gomulka in 1956.
D)It lacked solidarity and quickly disintegrated and disappeared in 1980.
E)It was outlawed in 1981 and its leaders arrested.

Question 62

College and university students in the 1960s opposed all of these conditions in higher education EXCEPT

A)declining enrollments.
B)lack of relevant educational content.
C)crowded classrooms.
D)authoritarian administrators.
E)inattentive professors.

Question 63

Which period marked the zenith of European economic growth?

A)1789 to 1815
B)1851 to 1914
C)1921 to 1929
D)1945 to 1965
E)1973 to 1985

Question 64

What was true about Playboy magazine when it first launched in the 1950s?

A)It had no nudity.
B)It featured images but very little text.
C)It encouraged men to spice up their married sex lives.
D)It encouraged men to find sexual satisfaction outside their marriages.
E)It was banned in its first year.

Question 65

Who was the West German chancellor whose policy of Ostpolitik improved relations with East Germany?

A)Willy Brandt
B)Konrad Adenauer
C)Helmut Kohl
D)Helmut Schmidt
E)Walter Ulbricht

Question 66

In 1966, ____ was founded, with a goal of bringing "women into full participation in the mainstream of American society.

A)Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
B)the sexual revolution
C)the feminist movement
D)the Feminine Mystique
E)National Organization for Women (NOW)

Question 67

A popular slogan of the youth movement of the 1960s was

A)"The Times They Are A Changin'"
B)"Life's a beach."
C)"Dump Nixon"
D)"Make Love, Not War."
E)"We are the flower children."

Question 68

What is true of the "Prague Spring" in Czechoslovakia?

A)It permanently ended communism.
B)It successfully established a long-lasting democratic government.
C)It was shortly brought to an end by the Red Army.
D)It received support and sympathy from East Germany and Romania.
E)It had the support of Mikhail Gorbachev.

Question 69

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rap and Grandmaster Flash

Question 70

According to the ____ embraced by President Johnson and his policymakers, if Vietnam fell to the communists, other Asian countries would also fall.

A)Vietnamization policy
B)containment policy
C)troop escalation theory
D)domino theory
E)State Protection Authority Program

Question 71

In The Feminine Mystique, ____ argued that women in the 1950s were kept from reaching their full human potential.

A)Rachel Carson
B)Betty Ford
C)Simone de Beauvoir
D)Kathleen Windsor
E)Betty Friedan

Question 72

How did some Europeans react to student protests there?

A)They detested what they saw as the lawlessness of the privileged.
B)They blamed student radicals for large numbers of deaths during protests in 1968.
C)They argued that even students within the antiwar movement began to have doubts about their actions.
D)They wanted to see the full police powers of the states of Europe brought down upon the protesters.
E)They demanded that universities withdraw their funding from student protestors.

Question 73

All of these statements about Margaret Thatcher are true EXCEPT

A)she was the first female British prime minister.
B)she pledged to increase social welfare programs.
C)she was nicknamed the "Iron Lady."
D)she broke the power of labor unions in England.
E)she implemented economic programs that aided parts of England while others suffered.

Question 74

Student radicalism in the 1960s was motivated by all of these reasons EXCEPT

A)the Vietnam War.
B)Western society's growing materialism.
C)fear of becoming a cog in Western society's bureaucracies.
D)desire for more democratic decision-making within universities.
E)demand for sexual freedom on campuses.

Question 75

Mitterrand improved conditions for workers in France by

A)increasing the minimum wage.
B)decreasing costly social benefits.
C)lowering taxes nationwide.
D)nationalizing the steel industry.
E)guaranteeing all workers four weeks of paid vacation.

Question 76

What best describes the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev?

A)It was completely shut off from Western influences.
B)It stressed worker incentives and increased efficiency in industrial production.
C)It saw heavy industry decline with improvement in agriculture.
D)It threatened to go to war against the People's Republic of China.
E)It had reached parity with the U.S. in nuclear arms, and it allowed some access to Western music and art.

Question 77

Which nation took the initial lead in the sexual revolution of the 1960s?

A)the United States
B)France
C)Italy
D)Sweden
E)the Soviet Union

Question 78

After his election as first secretary of the Communist party in Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek introduced reforms promoting

A)freedom of speech and the press.
B)free access to Western television shows, music and art.
C)increased secret police activities.
D)bans on travel abroad.
E)censorship of all media.

Question 79

East German leader Erich Honecker is best known for

A)ordering the construction ofthe Berlin Wall in 1961.
B)establishing a virtual dictatorship by using the Stasi or secret police in the 1970s and 1980s.
C)endorsing the political unification of West and East Germany in the late 1980s.
D)leading an unsuccessful independence movement from the Soviet Union in 1953.
E)dismantling the Berlin Wall.

Question 80

What was a provision of the Brezhnev Doctrine?

A)The Soviet Union promised to clean up its international reputation.
B)The Soviets attempted to roll back capitalism everywhere.
C)More political freedoms were granted at home.
D)The Eastern bloc countries were set free from Moscow's control.
E)The Soviets declared the right of intervention if a socialist state was threatened.