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The Marshall Plan, though kind and decent, played no significant role in the post-war recovery of Europe.

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IDENTIFICATIONS -Hungarian uprising

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The Truman Doctrine was a consequence of a civil war in


A) Yugoslavia.
B) Greece.
C) Italy.
D) Czechoslovakia.
E) Poland.

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A leading voice in the postwar women's liberation movement was Simone de Beauvoir, who wrote The Feminine Mystique.

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IDENTIFICATIONS -Mahatma Gandhi and an "orgy of blood"

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IDENTIFICATIONS -Martin Luther King and "white backlash"

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IDENTIFICATIONS -Bay of Pigs

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IDENTIFICATIONS -West Germany's "economic miracle"

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The economic policies of Stalin


A) completely overtaxed a war-damaged industrial plant as production of material goods long failed to surpass prewar levels.
B) were unrealistic since Russia lacked readily accessible natural resources and fossil fuels.
C) managed to produce both "guns and butter," that is rearmed the Soviet military while providing cheap and plentiful consumer goods.
D) instituted a modified free-market capitalism in all economic areas except for heavy industry.
E) emphasized the development of heavy industry and the production of modern weapons and space vehicles.

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IDENTIFICATIONS -apartheid

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The horrors of two world wars, the Cold War, and attendant socio-cultural upheavals have also stimulated a late twentieth-century religious revival exemplified in the works of Karl Barth, who has argued


A) that the Bible is the literal word of God and that salvation and consolation comes from accepting that "truth."
B) that the Bible, although not inherently true, still gives the best instruction for moral behavior.
C) that the sinful and imperfect nature of humans means that they can know religious truth not through reason but only through the grace of God.
D) that the mystery religions of Asia and the Middle East give humans a more transcendent sense of the divine and should come to replace Christian bigotry.
E) that a diversity of religious beliefs, including such "New Age" practices as witchcraft, the worship of healing rock crystals, and devotion to Gaia the Earth Mother, is a healthy sign of a new spiritualism in Western Civilization.

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IDENTIFICATIONS -Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

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The Indonesian president who was suspicious of the West, sought economic aid from China and the Soviet Union, and relied at home on a native communist party was


A) Suharto.
B) Sukarno.
C) Nehru.
D) Gandhi.
E) Sukarnoputri.

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IDENTIFICATIONS -European Coal and Steel Community

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One of the most significant events of the Khrushchev regime was Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956.

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IDENTIFICATIONS -CENTO and SEATO

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The policy created in 1947 and used by the Americans against Communism was called


A) massive retaliation.
B) containment.
C) appeasement.
D) curtailment.
E) mutually assured destruction (MAD) .

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The first chancellor and "founding hero" of the West German Federal Republic was


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

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IDENTIFICATIONS -Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, and Federico Fellini

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IDENTIFICATIONS -the birth-control pill

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