Question 1

As the United States came to share in the leadership of Western culture, many perceived that

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A)  America offered a culture combining technology, value-free social science, and scientific management.
B)  the old European way led to excessive theorizing, political extremism, and impasse.
C)  Americanism meant "the end of ideology."
D)  the American approach got things done by using experts.
E)  All of these.

Question 2

The United States had strongly supported the efforts of the French in Egypt during the Suez crisis.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Amidst postwar prosperity, political disaffection appeared in

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A)  the United States with the civil rights and antiwar movements.
B)  France with student unrest culminating in the 1968 "Days of May."
C)  Italy with terrorists in the 1970s.
D)  Germany with the Green movement.
E)  All of these.

Question 4

The Berlin Wall symbolized the

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A)  power of NATO.
B)  power and long-term success of East Germany.
C)  polarization of Europe after World War II.
D)  end of World War II.
E)  Stalin Era. C

Question 5

Why did President de Gaulle and some other Europeans oppose the Common Market? What was the original rationale for some degree of European economic integration, what roles were played by Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman, and what were the implications of increasing economic unity for national sovereignty?

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The issue is an important one, though st...

Question 6

As a domestic leader Khrushchev proved an erratic yet energetic innovator.His methods led to the Soviets being the first to launch the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, in 1957.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Discuss the Soviet bloc in the 1970s and 1980s.Explain the fall of communism in east-central Europe in 1989.

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The influence of the Helsinki Accords an...

Question 8

In a world dominated by two superpowers, de Gaulle asserted French sovereignty by all of the following except

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A)  the creation of an independent French nuclear force.
B)  withdrawal from the European Economic Community.
C)  recognition of the People's Republic of China.
D)  curtailment of the French role in NATO.
E)  checking the increasing supranationalsim evident in the EEC.

Question 9

After the Second World War, western European nations experienced all of the following except

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A)  dependence on U.S.leadership.
B)  a consensus that government needed to promote economic growth and social welfare.
C)  a renewal of intense and violent national rivalries.
D)  rapid economic recovery and unprecedented prosperity.
E)  having to exist in a bipolar Europe.

Question 10

In postwar western Europe, labor

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A)  had no share in economic decision making.
B)  began demanding more benefits in the 1960s.
C)  disrupted the European economy with incessant strikes.
D)  was severely repressed in all states.
E)  became part of a massive consumer society.

Question 11

Which of the following is related to pop art?

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A)  Imaginative renderings of familiar images
B)  Return to classical landscape paintings
C)  Term was coined in Harlem
D)  Symbolized the world's acceptance of war and pain
E)  Symbolized the enthusiasm for the new technology and science of post WW II

Question 12

What is Ostpolitik?

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A)  Adenauer's policy to isolate East Germany
B)  Willy Brandt's attempt to improve relations with the Soviet bloc
C)  The attempt to reunify Germany
D)  The East German attempts to copy West Germany
E)  The Soviet occupation of East Germany

Question 13

Welfare states of one type or another

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A)  existed everywhere in western Europe in the postwar period.
B)  were formed in Sweden and Denmark but not in Britain.
C)  developed only in Scandinavia, Britain, and the United States.
D)  were formed in eastern Europe only.
E)  prevented governments from providing welfare and maintaining a capitalistic economy at the same time. A

Question 14

The primary catalyst leading to the fall of the Soviet Union was the uprising in Poland led by the Catholic-sponsored trade union, Solidarity.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

The Berlin Wall was erected to deter illegal immigration from West Berlin to East Germany.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 16

Khrushchev's de-Stalinization speech in 1956

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A)  condemned Stalin's "cult of personality."
B)  probably aimed at undercutting his rivals.
C)  stated that Stalinism deviated from Marxism-Leninism.
D)  suggested the possibility of liberalization and reform.
E)  All of these.

Question 17

The pop art of artists such as Warhol and Lichtenstein

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A)  may indicate the everyday beauty or haunting emptiness of mass production, mass consumption, and the mass media.
B)  was a continuation of the abstract expressionism popular just after the Second World War.
C)  was also known as "rock and roll."
D)  originated in and was characteristic of postwar Europe.
E)  was a reaction against the melancholy, nostalgia, and tragedy of the era.

Question 18

Communism ended in Poland because

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A)  of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
B)  of pressure from the West.
C)  of popular pressure, a partially free election, and the voluntary ceding of power by the Communist authorities.
D)  of a violent popular uprising.
E)  Gorbachev was seeking reform and less likely to intervene militarily.

Question 19

The key to the immediate postwar revival of Europe was

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A)  the United Nations.
B)  the Common Market.
C)  COMECON.
D)  the Marshall Plan.
E)  the Warsaw Pact.

Question 20

Margaret Thatcher was a major proponent of the Labor party's vision of the welfare state.

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A) True 
 B)False  False

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