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What best describes the European Green movements?


A) They achieved notable political successes in most European countries.
B) They were unsuccessful in mobilizing public support.
C) They made average people aware of environmental problems and gained a variety of local and national political offices.
D) They were primarily involved with the anti-nuclear movements in Europe.
E) They were more successful in Eastern Europe than in Western Europe.

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Britain's Margaret Thatcher used austerity measures to control inflation and her policies did improve the British economy.

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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.

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By 1980, the Soviet Union was characterized by


A) a growing economy boosted by heavy industry.
B) a declining rate of alcoholism.
C) an ailing economy and increasing social problems.
D) an improvement in bureaucratic inefficiency.
E) a popular central government.

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What is an important fact that both in the war in Vietnam and the war in Afghanistan reveal about the U.S. and Soviet Union?


A) The superpowers could never be at peace.
B) There would always be sphere of influence in the world where the superpowers would be at conflict.
C) The influence of large superpowers was limited against a strong nationalist and guerrilla-type opposition.
D) The nuclear build-up of both countries would keep them in line.
E) There could never be a military conflict between the superpowers.

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As the European Community expanded in the 1970s and 1980s,


A) Great Britain withdrew its membership.
B) the United States sought to join as an honorary member.
C) Greece, Spain, and Portugal joined its ranks.
D) Denmark sought special status as a founding member.
E) the EC began to exert its power to dwarf nonmember countries.

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What was true about the outcome of the Vietnam War?


A) It was resolved in 1975 with the Helsinki Agreements.
B) It ended in 1973 with the defeat of North Korea.
C) It showed the limitations of American power, and led to improved Soviet-American relations.
D) It marked the beginning of the total domination of Southeast Asia by the Soviet Union.
E) It led to an immediate end of the Cold War in 1975 with the final withdrawal of Americans from Vietnam.

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Which American president journeyed to the People's Republic of China in 1972?


A) Lyndon Johnson
B) Jimmy Carter
C) John Kennedy
D) Gerald Ford
E) Richard Nixon

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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.

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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.

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Postmodern art was known for its


A) eclectic mingling of historic tradition and Modernist innovation.
B) simplicity of design.
C) rejection of performance and installation-based work.
D) focus on object-based artwork.
E) photorealism.

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