Question 1

How did the existentialists describe the universe and humans' place in it?

Accepted Answer

Existentialism is a philosophical moveme

Question 2

Please define the following key terms.
-Nikita Khrushchev

Accepted Answer

Nikita Khrushchev was a prominent Soviet

Question 3

Please define the following key terms.
-Korean War

Accepted Answer

The Korean War, which lasted from 1950 t

Question 4

What was the name of the system of racial segregation in South Africa?

Accepted Answer

A) Jim Crow 
B) Apartheid 
C) Rapprochement 
D) Final Solution 
E) Aryan supremacy 
A) Jim Crow 
B) Apartheid 
C) Rapprochement 
D) Final Solution 
E) Aryan supremacy

Question 5

When did television become readily available in the United States?

Accepted Answer

A) The early 1930s 
B) The late 1940s 
C) The late 1950s 
D) The early 1960s 
E) The early 1970s 
A) The early 1930s 
B) The late 1940s 
C) The late 1950s 
D) The early 1960s 
E) The early 1970s

Question 6

Please define the following key terms.
-West Germany's "economic miracle"

Accepted Answer

The term "economic miracle" refers to th

Question 7

Please define the following key terms.
-Stalinization

Accepted Answer

Stalinization refers to the adoption of

Question 8

Under the policy established by President Eisenhower, how would the U.S. respond to a Soviet ground assault on western Europe?

Accepted Answer

A) With conventional bombing of Soviet cities 
B) With an economic blockade 
C) With a diplomatic effort to mediate the crisis 
D) With a full-scale nuclear attack 
E) With conventional weapons 
A) With conventional bombing of Soviet cities 
B) With an economic blockade 
C) With a diplomatic effort to mediate the crisis 
D) With a full-scale nuclear attack 
E) With conventional weapons

Question 9

What did Mao hope to achieve with the Great Leap Forward? Why was it such a disaster?

Accepted Answer

Mao Zedong hoped to achieve rapid indust

Question 10

In your opinion, which side bore the most responsibility for the start of the Cold War? Why?

Accepted Answer

In my opinion, both the United States an

Question 11

A new round of Soviet purges was only averted in 1953 by Stalin's death.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Describe the course of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the first three decades following World War II.

Accepted Answer

The Arab-Israeli conflict in the first t

Question 13

What event led Charles de Gaulle to withdraw from politics?

Accepted Answer

A) He was discredited by his links with the Communists. 
B) The United States wanted France out of Indochina. 
C) Radical union leaders constantly harassed him. 
D) He believed the Fourth Republic had become weak. 
E) He wanted to become king. 
A) He was discredited by his links with the Communists. 
B) The United States wanted France out of Indochina. 
C) Radical union leaders constantly harassed him. 
D) He believed the Fourth Republic had become weak. 
E) He wanted to become king.

Question 14

North Korea invaded South Korea in

Accepted Answer

A) 1946. 
B) 1955. 
C) 1950. 
D) 1953. 
E) 1947. 
A) 1946. 
B) 1955. 
C) 1950. 
D) 1953. 
E) 1947.

Question 15

What did Wladyslaw Gomulka do in Poland in 1956?

Accepted Answer

A) He worked with the Soviets to crush a nascent independence movement. 
B) He declared his nation's right to follow its own socialist path. 
C) He tried to assassinate Nikita Khrushchev. 
D) He started an underground newspaper dedicated to fascism. 
E) He ordered the construction of a wall separating Poland from the Soviet Union. 
A) He worked with the Soviets to crush a nascent independence movement. 
B) He declared his nation's right to follow its own socialist path. 
C) He tried to assassinate Nikita Khrushchev. 
D) He started an underground newspaper dedicated to fascism. 
E) He ordered the construction of a wall separating Poland from the Soviet Union.

Question 16

Please define the following key terms.
-existentialism

Accepted Answer

Existentialism is a philosophical moveme

Question 17

Please define the following key terms.
-French Popular Movement

Accepted Answer

The term "French Popular Movement" could

Question 18

How did Truman and his Western European allies respond to Stalin's blockade of Berlin in 1948?

Accepted Answer

A) Building the Berlin Wall 
B) Airlifting supplies into Berlin 
C) Bombing Moscow 
D) Sending a UN force to reopen the access routes 
E) Threatening nuclear war 
A) Building the Berlin Wall 
B) Airlifting supplies into Berlin 
C) Bombing Moscow 
D) Sending a UN force to reopen the access routes 
E) Threatening nuclear war

Question 19

What was the Great Leap Forward?

Accepted Answer

A) Stalin's stated philosophy for his last five-year plan 
B) The radicalization of the feminist movement 
C) Mao Zedong's effort to achieve a classless society and the final stage of communism 
D) The missile race between the United States and the Soviet Union 
E) Mao Zedong's New Economic Policy, modeled on Lenin's early 1920s economic reforms 
A) Stalin's stated philosophy for his last five-year plan 
B) The radicalization of the feminist movement 
C) Mao Zedong's effort to achieve a classless society and the final stage of communism 
D) The missile race between the United States and the Soviet Union 
E) Mao Zedong's New Economic Policy, modeled on Lenin's early 1920s economic reforms

Question 20

In 1951, ____ joined with five other countries to form the European Coal and Steel Community.

Accepted Answer

A) Britain 
B) Spain 
C) West Germany 
D) Portugal 
E) Greece 
A) Britain 
B) Spain 
C) West Germany 
D) Portugal 
E) Greece

Exam 28: Cold War and a New Western World, 1945–1965.

How did the existentialists describe the universe and humans' place in it?

Please define the following key terms. -Nikita Khrushchev

Please define the following key terms. -Korean War

What was the name of the system of racial segregation in South Africa?

When did television become readily available in the United States?

Please define the following key terms. -West Germany's "economic miracle"

Please define the following key terms. -Stalinization

Under the policy established by President Eisenhower, how would the U.S. respond to a Soviet ground assault on western Europe?

What did Mao hope to achieve with the Great Leap Forward? Why was it such a disaster?

In your opinion, which side bore the most responsibility for the start of the Cold War? Why?

A new round of Soviet purges was only averted in 1953 by Stalin's death.

Describe the course of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the first three decades following World War II.

What event led Charles de Gaulle to withdraw from politics?

North Korea invaded South Korea in

What did Wladyslaw Gomulka do in Poland in 1956?

Please define the following key terms. -existentialism

Please define the following key terms. -French Popular Movement

How did Truman and his Western European allies respond to Stalin's blockade of Berlin in 1948?

What was the Great Leap Forward?

In 1951, ____ joined with five other countries to form the European Coal and Steel Community.

The Ancient Near East: The First Civilizations.

The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires.

The Civilization of the Greeks.

The Hellenistic World.

The Roman Republic.

The Roman Empire.

Late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World.

European Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750–1000.

The Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages.

The Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power.

The Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century.

Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance.

Reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century.

Europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500–1800.

State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century.

Toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: The Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science.

The Eighteenth Century: An Age of Enlightenment.

The Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change.

A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon.

The Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society.

Reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815–1850.

An Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850–1871.

Mass Society in an “Age of Progress,” 1871–1894.

An Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894–1914.

The Beginning of the Twentieth-Century Crisis: War and Revolution.

The Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919–1939.

The Deepening of the European Crisis: World War II.

Protest and Stagnation: The Western World, 1965–1985.

After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age (Since 1985)

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