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| 2299332398 | what crisis emerged in 1956 that demonstrated the diminished powers of european nations in world affairs? | britain and france attempted forcibly to halt egypt's nationalization of the suez canal | 0 | |
| 2299338322 | what french leader negotiated algeria's independence in 1962? | charles de gaulle | 1 | |
| 2299361260 | In what year did the French relinquish their colony in Vietnam? | 1954 | 2 | |
| 2299362762 | what phrase did winston churchill coin to describe the division between free and repressed societies after world war 2? | the iron curtain | 3 | |
| 2299410565 | where was the focal point of the cold war in europe immediately after world war 2? | germany | 4 | |
| 2299425290 | what were member countries of the eastern bloc? | poland, czechoslovakia, bulgaria, romania, and hungary | 5 | |
| 2299435553 | what was the marshall plan? | a program of substantial loans in 1947 designed to help western nations rebuild from the war's devastation | 6 | |
| 2299568858 | u.s opposition to soviet aggression in western europe was predicted on | a nuclear umbrella | 7 | |
| 2299594817 | what is true concerning US military spending? | regardless of the party in political power, the percentage of the US budget going to military remained stable from 50s to 80s | 8 | |
| 2299613027 | Which of the following was consistent with the political viewpoint of the Christian Democrats? | Democratic institutions and moderate social reform | 9 | |
| 2299624580 | what is true concerning the development of new governments in europe after ww2? | new constitutions established in western europe uniformly established effective parliaments with universal (including female) suffrage | 10 | |
| 2299674786 | how was germany dealt with after world war 2? | During the Cold War, France, Britain and the U.S. merged their territories to form the Federal Republic of Germany | 11 | |
| 2299682725 | the creation of welfare state | resulted from the leftward shift of the political spectrum in europe following world war 2 | 12 | |
| 2299683577 | what is true concerning the european welfare state? | it cushions citizens against major expenses and unusual harships, though it did not rearrange overall social structure | 13 | |
| 2299685462 | what paralleled the development of the welfare state? | it increased government role in economic policy | 14 | |
| 2299690268 | What Western nation failed to develop an economic planning office? | the united states | 15 | |
| 2299691446 | a technocrat was | a new breed of bureacrat typified by training in engineering and economics | 16 | |
| 2299703097 | What upset the pattern of political compromise around the patterns of parliamentary democracy and the welfare state in the 1960s? | Protest on college campuses | 17 | |
| 2299705506 | what represented a new political concern in the west following the upheaval of the 60s? | the green movement | 18 | |
| 2299732490 | Which of the following statements concerning western European nations in NATO is most accurate? | Europeans ultimately became rather comfortable with the concept of relying on U.S. protection | 19 | |
| 2299737051 | Which of the following was NOT an effect of the welfare state? | Immediately upon its creation, it generated a storm of political protest from conservative political factions | 20 | |
| 2299738802 | A return to conservatism in Western politics was marked by the election and long term of office of | Margaret Thatcher in Britain | 21 | |
| 2299742829 | what nations were involved in the original european economic community (E.U)? | italy, france, germany | 22 | |
| 2299755643 | Which of the following was NOT typical of the European economy after 1950? | High levels of unemployment | 23 | |
| 2299757086 | Describe the position of the peasantry in Europe in the late 20th Century. | Decreased in size and became more commercialized. | 24 | |
| 2299765153 | Which was not a right achieved by women in the west in the later 20th century? | payment equal to males for equal work | 25 | |
| 2299772348 | What work by Simone de Beauvoir signified the beginning of the new feminism in 1949? | the second sex | 26 | |
| 2299781104 | who wrote "the feminine mystique"? | betty friedman | 27 | |
| 2299803135 | Which of the following statements concerning Western culture during the later 20th century is most accurate? | Western culture in the 20th century, both in art and in science, became largely relative rather than objective | 28 | |
| 2299813051 | Which eastern European nation developed an advanced industrialization program, extensive urban culture, and preference for Western models and interaction following World War I? | czechoslovakia | 29 | |
| 2299816536 | Which eastern Europe nations remained independent of direct Soviet control by 1948? | Albania, Greece, Yugoslavia | 30 | |
| 2299823029 | All of the following policies were followed by Soviet-sponsored regimes in eastern Europe EXCEPT | the establishment of parliamentary democracies | 31 | |
| 2299825678 | 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 | 32 | |
| 2299845158 | The independent labor movement in Poland that challenged Soviets dominance was called | Solidarity | 33 | |
| 2299852112 | Which of the following statements concerning the Orthodox Church under Stalin's regime is most accurate? | Loyalties to Orthodoxy persisted, but they were concentrated in a largely elderly minority | 34 | |
| 2299854043 | who wrote "gulag archipelago"? | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 35 | |
| 2299860279 | Which of the following statements most accurately describes the European economy of the post-1950s? | Overall groth in gross national product surpassed the rates of any ectended period since the industrial revolution began | 36 | |
| 2299865402 | How did the government maintain pressure on the Soviet family? | Crowded housing; competition for scarce supplies of food | 37 | |
| 2299872187 | In what way did the social organization of the industrialized Soviet Union come to resemble that of the West? | The division of urban society between workers and a managerial middle class | 38 | |
| 2299876474 | By the 1970s, the Russian rate of population growth was | much less than that of the West. | 39 | |
| 2299877546 | Women in Russian industrialized society | dominated some professions, such as medicine. | 40 | |
| 2299880508 | Immediately after Stalin's death in 1953, what form of government was established? | Ruling committee (oligarchy) that balanced interest groups | 41 | |
| 2299896893 | What leader emeerged to take primary power in 1956? | Nikita Khrushchev | 42 | |
| 2299902010 | The European Economic Community is a good example of | cooperation between European nations and a willingness to create a single European economy | 43 | |
| 2299903024 | What Russian leader significantly altered political, diplomatic, and economic policies in the Soviet Union after 1985? | Mikhail Gorbachev | 44 | |
| 2299906614 | 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. | 45 |
