Deck 10: Postwar Europe: on the Path to Unity

Question 1

Identify the following terms:
Charles de Gaulle and the Fifth Republic

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

Identify the following terms:
Helmut Kohl and the Christian Democratic Union

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

Identify the following terms:
May 1968 student protests

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

Identify the following terms:
the Falklands War

Question 5

Identify the following terms:
Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik

Question 6

Identify the following terms:
the Marshall Plan and "hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos"

Question 7

Identify the following terms:
Helmut Schmidt and the Social Democrats

Question 8

Identify the following terms:
Margaret Thatcher and "Thatcherism"

Question 9

Identify the following terms:
Britain's National Insurance Act and the National Health Service Act

Question 10

Identify the following terms:
West Germany's "economic miracle"

Question 11

Identify the following terms:
Francois Mitterrand and the Socialists

Question 12

Identify the following terms:
Angela Merkel

Question 13

Identify the following terms:
Christian Democrats parties

Question 14

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Algerian rebellion

Question 15

Identify the following terms:
Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front

Question 16

Identify the following terms:
Eurocommunism

Question 17

Identify the following terms:
Konrad Adenauer, the "founding hero"

Question 18

Identify the following terms:
Northern Ireland and the Irish Republican Army (IRA)

Question 19

Identify the following terms:
German reunification

Question 20

Identify the following terms:
Clement Atlee and the Labour Party

Question 21

Identify the following terms:
Samuel Beckett and the "theater of the absurd"

Question 22

Identify the following terms:
The Maastricht Treaty

Question 23

Identify the following terms:
the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC)

Question 24

Identify the following terms:
Turkey and the EU

Question 25

Identify the following terms:
Tony Blair's Labour Party

Question 26

Identify the following terms:
EURATOM

Question 27

Identify the following terms:
the Green movements

Question 28

Identify the following terms:
Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

Question 29

Identify the following terms:
deconstructionism

Question 30

Identify the following terms:
the European Union

Question 31

Identify the following terms:
women's "consciousness raising"

Question 32

Identify the following terms:
Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus and existentialism

Question 33

Identify the following terms:
mass leisure

Question 34

Identify the following terms:
Yugoslavia and Marshal Tito

Question 35

Identify the following terms:
European Economic Community (EEC)

Question 36

Identify the following terms:
Britain's anti-poll tax riots

Question 37

Identify the following terms:
the euro

Question 38

Identify the following terms:
"ethnic cleansing"

Question 39

Identify the following terms:
Slobodan Milosevic and Serbian nationalism

Question 40

Identify the following terms:
Kosovo war and NATO

Question 41

Identify the following terms:
French Popular Movement

Question 42

Identify the following terms:
Jose Saramago's The Cave

Question 43

The political parties which played the important role in the economic recovery of Italy and Germany were the

A) Socialist Laborites.
B) Christian Democrats.
C) Tory Conservatives.
D) Liberal Constitutionalists.
E) Social Democrats.

Question 44

The major figure in France in the quarter century after World War II was

A) Marshall Petain.
B) Francois Mitterrand.
C) Jacques Chirac.
D) Charles de Gaulle.
E) Jean-Paul Sartre.

Question 45

Identify the following terms:
Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen and musical serialism

Question 46

The program that provide d $13 billi on in economic aid to Europe in the years after World War II is known as

A) the Truman Doctrine.
B) the Common Market.
C) the Marshall Plan.
D) EURATOM.
E) UNESCO.

Question 47

The crisis in 1958 that brought the final end of France's Fourth Republic occurred in

A) Indochina.
B) Algeria.
C) Syria.
D) Paris at the Sorbonne University.
E) Nanterre.

Question 48

In comparison with France's Fourth Republic, the Fifth Republic

A) increased the power of the French president.
B) decreased the power of the president and increased the authority the prime minister.
C) was more democratic.
D) adopted many socialist measures.
E) was less nationalistic.

Question 49

Identify the following terms:
David Cameron

Question 50

Identify the following terms:
Francis Bacon and Anselm Kiefer

Question 51

To reduce Europe's "hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos" was the message of

A) Franklin Roosevelt.
B) Joseph Stalin.
C) Harry Truman.
D) George Marshall.
E) Winston Churchill.

Question 52

Identify the following terms:
Aleksander Kwasniewski

Question 53

In 1945, the important advantage that the nations of Western and Central Europe had was the

A) widespread prosperity resulting from the rearming during World War II.
B) overwhelming confidence that in defeating Nazism triumphant democracy was permanently established.
C) support and assistance of the United States.
D) knowledge that the Soviet Union, given its disastrous losses in World War II, was no threat to the security of Europe.
E) realization that Germany would be quickly reunited, providing a secure economic and political anchor for the rest of Europe.

Question 54

Charles de Gaulle was critical of France's Fourth Republic because of

A) its multi-party parliamentary political system.
B) communist influence at the highest levels of government.
C) its authoritarian presidency.
D) its anti-Americanism.
E) France's failure to join either the Common Market or NATO.

Question 55

Identify the following terms:
Graham Greene's The Quiet American

Question 56

Eurocommunism after World War II

A) opposed democratic methods of achieving power.
B) demanded that Europe be incorporated into the Soviet Union.
C) advocated revolution to bring about the transformation of western civilization.
D) attempted to work within the democratic political party system.
E) hoped that the United States would increased its military power in Europe.

Question 57

Identify the following terms:
Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum

Question 58

In the aftermath of the disaster of World War II, some Europeans sought a model for the future in

A) the People's Republic of China.
B) the Soviet Union.
C) Japan.
D) the British Empire.
E) liberated France.

Question 59

Identify the following terms:
popular culture and high culture

Question 60

Identify the following terms:
Alain Robbe-Grillet and the "new novel"

Question 61

Germany's "economic miracle" included all of the following except

A) unemployment dropped to 0.4 percent by 1965.
B) hundreds of thousands of "guest workers" were imported in order to maintain its economic expansion.
C) all banks and major industries were nationalized by the government.
D) real wages doubled between 1950 and 1965.
E) by 1955 the gross national product exceeded that of prewar Germany.

Question 62

The reunification Germany after 1989 was complicated by

A) the Soviet Union's demand that all police files be shipped to Moscow.
B) the resulting surplus of German labor, necessitating the immediate expulsion of all "guest workers."
C) the appearance of neo-Nazi attitudes, often directed against foreign workers.
D) the collapse of the currency, leading to runaway inflation throughout all of Germany.
E) the electoral success of the neo-Communists of the Socialist-Workers party.

Question 63

In 1990, riots broke out in Great Britain because of

A) defeat by Argentina in the Falkland War.
B) France's refusal to support Great Britain's application to join the European Community.
C) a proposal by the Thatcher government to institute a poll tax to be paid by all adults.
D) the Conservative Party's refusal to hold scheduled elections.
E) the abolishment of the welfare state.

Question 64

One of Charles de Gaulle's initiatives was to have France

A) accept a seat on the United Nations' Security Council.
B) withdraw from NATO.
C) leave the Common Market.
D) abandon its nuclear weapons program.
E) end all connections with its former African colonies.

Question 65

The American President that Tony Blair was most compared to was

A) Bill Clinton.
B) Ronald Reagan.
C) Barack Obama.
D) John Kennedy.
E) Jimmy Carter.

Question 66

Margaret Thatcher's "Thatcherism"

A) resulted in an increase in government bureaucracy.
B) supported expanding the power of the labor unions.
C) limited social welfare and broke the power of the unions.
D) increased the rate of inflation.
E) lost a war in the Falkland Islands.

Question 67

Problems facing the states of Eastern Europe after the fall of the Communist governments in the revolutions of 1989 included

A) an attempt by Russia to regain her power and influence through the threat of force.
B) a belief that authoritarian governments were the proper rulers of society.
C) a lack of ethnic rivalry which could spur peaceful competition and reform.
D) high wages and a lack of available labor.
E) how to introduce a market economy and democratic practices.

Question 68

Which Western European nation was not an original member of the European Coal and Steel Community when it was formed in 1951.

A) The Netherlands.
B) France.
C) West Germany.
D) the United States.
E) Great Britain.

Question 69

The causes of Great Britain's economic decline after World War II included all of the following except

A) excessive demands by labor unions.
B) laissez-faire policies by the government.
C) unwillingness to invest in modern industrial technology.
D) losses of revenue from abroad.
E) too much debt due to numerous international commitments.

Question 70

The "founding hero" of the West German Federal Republic was

A) Walter Ulbricht.
B) Konrad Adenauer.
C) Helmut Kohl.
D) Ludwig Erhard.
E) Richard von Weizsacker.

Question 71

France was similar to Germany in that

A) eastern France suffered from high unemployment while western France and Paris prospered due to tourism.
B) the French secret police, the equivalent to East Germany's Stasi , had become corrupt, blackmailing politicians and businessmen.
C) the political center was threatened by an extremist political party, the Greens.
D) resentment against foreigners, particularly Muslims from North Africa, led to an anti-immigrant movement headed by Jean-Marie Le Pen and his National Front.
E) the confusion and chaos of the time led to political instability, and in France it led to the collapse of the Fifth Republic.

Question 72

To distance itself from its memories of the Hitler era, after World War II the capital of Germany was moved from Berlin to

A) Frankfurt.
B) Munich.
C) Weimar.
D) Bonn.
E) Cologne.

Question 73

The implementation of the welfare state led Britain to

A) seek greater economic profits from its expanding empire.
B) ignore mere "political" issues such as the "troubles" in Northern Ireland.
C) restrict the power of labor unions.
D) reduce its overseas expenses by dismantling its empire and reducing foreign aid.
E) establish collective farms, which would be more efficient and produce more.

Question 74

The German who pursued the policy of Ostpolitik and who received the Nobel Peace Prize for his "opening toward the east" was

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

Question 75

The disintegration of Yugoslavia is associated with

A) interpersonal communal rivalries.
B) de-urbanization.
C) economic collapse due to hyper-inflation.
D) ethnic cleansing.
E) massive industrial pollution.

Question 76

The British Prime Minister whose government instituted Britain's welfare state was

A) Winston Churchill.
B) Joseph Chamberlain.
C) David Lloyd George.
D) Clement Atlee.
E) Margaret Thatcher.

Question 77

The event that eventually led to the resignation of Charles de Gaulle as president of France was

A) the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, ending the "Prague Spring."
B) the failure keep Algeria within the French Empire.
C) a general strike by labor unions and a series of student riots.
D) America's rejection of de Gaulle's advice to get out of Vietnam.
E) Britain's refusal to allow France to join the Common Market.

Question 78

The crisis in Yugoslavia began with

A) its defeat in World War II.
B) the death of Marshal Tito in 1980.
C) the Soviet invasion and occupation in 1956.
D) the religious beliefs of the majority of the populations, who were Muslims.
E) the collapse of the euro.

Question 79

The welfare state in Great Britain included all of the following except

A) the National Health Service Act.
B) the nationalization of the Bank of England.
C) the National Insurance Act.
D) guarantees of life-time employment.
E) the nationalization of public transportation and public utilities.

Question 80

The former Yugoslavian province where war broke out in 1999 and that required the intervention of NATO was

A) Slovenia.
B) Bosnia-Herzegovina.
C) Kosovo.
D) Serbia.
E) Croatia.