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| 6595737158 | What term was coined by Churchill to describe the division between the free and repressed societies after WWI? | Iron Curtain | 0 | |
| 6595737159 | Which of the following social insurance programs was NOT typical of the welfare state? | The "value added" tax scheme | 1 | |
| 6595737160 | What was Western Culture like in the later 20th century? | Western culture in the 20th century, both in art and in science, became largely relative rather than objective. In the field of physics, modern scientists were unable to go beyond the startling discoveries of the 19th century | 2 | |
| 6595737161 | Which of the following was NOT typical of the European economy after 1950? | High unemployment | 3 | |
| 6595737162 | Which of the following represented a new political concern in the West following the upheaval of the 1960s? | The Green Movement | 4 | |
| 6595737163 | What Russian author of Gulag Archipelago was exiled to the West, but found life there too materialistic? | Solzhenitsyn | 5 | |
| 6595737164 | A "technocrat" was a what? | A new breed of bureaucrat typified by training in engineering or economics | 6 | |
| 6595737165 | Which of the following paralleled the development of the welfare state? | Increased government role in economic policy | 7 | |
| 6595737166 | Which of the following statements concerning the Soviet military following Stalin's death is most accurate? | Overall the Soviet Union played a cautious diplomatic game, almost never engaging in warfare but maintaining a high level of preparedness | 8 | |
| 6595737167 | Despite the loosening of Soviet control over eastern Europe following Stalin's death, what aspects of Soviet domination continued to be enforced? | Single-party dominance and military alignment with the Soviet Union | 9 | |
| 6595737168 | What upset the pattern of political compromise around the patterns of parliamentary democracy and the welfare state in the 1960s? | Protests on the college campus' in Europe and the US | 10 | |
| 6595737169 | What Russian leader significantly altered political, diplomatic, and economic policies in the Soviet Union after 1985? | Mikhail Gorbachev | 11 | |
| 6595737170 | What crisis emerged in 1956 that demonstrated the diminished powers of European nations in world affairs? | Britain and France attempt to halt Egypt nationalization of Suez Canal | 12 | |
| 6595737171 | Which of the following nations was NOT involved in the original European Economic Community? | Britain | 13 | |
| 6595737172 | By the 1970s, the Russian rate of population growth was? | About the same as the West | 14 | |
| 6595737173 | Which of the following was NOT an effect of the welfare state? | Generated political protests from conservative factions | 15 |
