AP World History Chapter 31 Flashcards

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