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| 1393509860 | What crisis emerged in 1956 that demonstrated the diminished powers of European nations in world affairs? | C) Britain and France attempted forcibly to halt Egypt's nationalization of the Suez Canal. | 0 | |
| 1393509861 | 2) What French leader negotiated Algeria's independence in 1962? | D) Charles de Gaulle | 1 | |
| 1393509862 | 3) In what year did the French relinquish their colony in Vietnam? | B) 1954 | 2 | |
| 1393509863 | What phrase did Winston Churchill coin to describe the division between free and repressed societies after World War II? | B) The iron curtain | 3 | |
| 1393509864 | 5) Where was the focal point of the cold war in Europe immediately after World War II? | D) Germany | 4 | |
| 1393509865 | 6) Which of the following countries was not a member of the "eastern bloc"? | C) Turkey | 5 | |
| 1393509866 | 7) A program of loans that was designed to aid western European nations rebuild from WWII's devastation was the | C) Marshall Plan. | 6 | |
| 1393509867 | 8) U.S. defense against Soviet aggression in western Europe was predicated on | C) a nuclear "umbrella." | 7 | |
| 1393509868 | 9) Which of the following statements concerning western European nations in NATO is most accurate? | .B) Western European nations rapidly lost their fear of Soviet aggression leading to weakening of NATO | 8 | |
| 1393509869 | 10) Which of the following statements concerning U.S. military spending is most accurate? | D) Regardless of the party in political power, the percentage of the U.S. budget going to the military remained stable from the 1950s to the 1980s. | 9 | |
| 1393509870 | 11) Which of the following was consistent with the political viewpoint of France's Christian Democrats? | B) Democratic institutions and moderate social reform | 10 | |
| 1393509871 | 12) Which of the following statements concerning the development of new governments in Europe after World War II is most accurate? | B) New constitutions established in western Europe uniformly established effective parliaments with universal (including female) suffrage. | 11 | |
| 1393509872 | 13) Which of the following statements concerning the German government after World War II is most accurate? | B) During the cold war, France, Britain, and the United States merged their territories to form the Federal Republic of Germany. | 12 | |
| 1393509873 | 14) The creation of the welfare state | D) resulted from the leftward shift of the political spectrum in Europe following World War II. | 13 | |
| 1393509874 | 15) Which of the following social insurance programs was NOT typical of the welfare state? | C) The "value-added" tax scheme | 14 | |
| 1393509875 | 16) Which of the following statements concerning the European welfare state is most accurate? | C) Although some aspects of the welfare state redistributed income, it did not make a huge dent on western Europe's unequal class system. | 15 | |
| 1393509876 | 17) Which of the following was NOT an effect of the welfare state? | D) Immediately upon its creation, it generated a storm of political protest from conservative political factions. | 16 | |
| 1393509877 | 18) Which of the following paralleled the development of the welfare state? | B) Increased government role in economic policy | 17 | |
| 1393509878 | 19) What Western nation failed to develop an economic planning office? | B) The United States | 18 | |
| 1393509879 | 20) A "technocrat" was | C) a new breed of bureaucrat typified by training in engineering or economics. | 19 | |
| 1393509880 | 21) What upset the pattern of political compromise around the patterns of parliamentary democracy and the welfare state in the 1960s? | B) Protest on college campuses in Europe and the U.S. | 20 | |
| 1393509881 | 22) Which of the following represented a new political concern in the West following the upheaval of the 1960s? | C) The Green movement | 21 | |
| 1393509882 | 23) A return to conservatism in Western politics was marked by the election and long term of office of | A) Margaret Thatcher in Britain. | 22 | |
| 1393509883 | 24) Which of the following nations was NOT involved in the original European Economic Community? | A) Britain | 23 | |
| 1393509884 | 25) The European Economic Community is a good example of | B) cooperation between European nations and a willingness to create a single European economy. | 24 | |
| 1393509885 | 26) Which of the following statements most accurately describes the European economy of the post-1950s? | B) Overall growth in gross national product surpassed the rates of any extended period since the Industrial Revolution began. | 25 | |
| 1393509886 | 27) Which of the following was NOT typical of the European economy after 1950? | C) High levels of unemployment | 26 | |
| 1393509887 | 28) Which of the following statements most accurately describes the situation of European peasantry in the social structure of late 20th-century Europe? | B) The European peasantry decreased in size and became increasingly commercialized. | 27 | |
| 1393509888 | 29) Which of the following was NOT a right achieved by women in the West in the later 20th century? | D) Payment equal to males for equal work | 28 | |
| 1393509889 | 30) What work by Simone de Beauvoir signified the beginning of the new feminism in 1949? | C) The Second Sex | 29 | |
| 1393509890 | 31) Who wrote The Feminine Mystique? | A) Betty Friedan | 30 | |
| 1393509891 | 32) Which of the following statements concerning Western culture during the later 20th century is most accurate? | D) Western culture in the 20th century, both in art and in science, became largely relative rather than objective. | 31 | |
| 1393509892 | 33) Which of the following eastern European nations developed an advanced industrialization program, extensive urban culture, and preference for Western models and interaction following World War I? | B) Czechoslovakia | 32 | |
| 1393509893 | 34) Greece, Albania and ________ remained independent of direct Soviet control by 1948. | C) Yugoslavia | 33 | |
| 1393509894 | 35) All of the following policies were followed by Soviet-sponsored regimes in eastern Europe EXCEPT | C) the establishment of parliamentary democracies. | 34 | |
| 1393509895 | 36) The independent labor movement in Poland that challenged Soviet dominance was called | B) Solidarity. | 35 | |
| 1393509896 | 37) Despite the loosening of Soviet control over eastern Europe following Stalin's death, what aspects of Soviet domination continued to be enforced? | A) Single-party dominance and military alignment with the Soviet Union | 36 | |
| 1393509897 | 38) Which of the following statements concerning the Orthodox church under Stalin's regime is most accurate? | D) Loyalties to orthodoxy persisted, but they were concentrated in a largely elderly minority. | 37 | |
| 1393509898 | 39) What Russian author of ^ Gulag Archipelago was exiled to the West, but found life there too materialistic? | C) Solzhenitsyn | 38 | |
| 1393509899 | 40) Which of the following was NOT a source of pressure on the Soviet family? | A) Religious constraints imposed by the Orthodox church | 39 | |
| 1393509900 | 41) In what way did the social organization of the industrialized Soviet Union come to resemble that of the West? | B) The division of urban society between workers and a managerial middle class | 40 | |
| 1393509901 | 42) By the 1970s, the Russian rate of population growth was | A) much less than that of the West. | 41 | |
| 1393509902 | 43) Women in Russian industrialized society | C) dominated some professions, such as medicine. | 42 | |
| 1393509903 | 44) Immediately after Stalin's death in 1953, what form of government was established? | B) A ruling committee rather than single-man rule | 43 | |
| 1393509904 | 45) What leader emerged to take primary power in 1956? | D) Nikita Khrushchev | 44 | |
| 1393509905 | 46) Which of the following was a Soviet success during the years of Khrushchev's dominance? | C) The launching of Sputnik | 45 | |
| 1393509906 | 47) Which of the following statements concerning the Soviet military following Stalin's death is most accurate? | A) Overall the Soviet Union played a cautious diplomatic game, almost never engaging in warfare but maintaining a high level of preparedness. | 46 |
