AP World History Chapter 32 Flashcards

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