Exam 16: Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965

The postwar emergence of the British welfare state included a variety of social welfare policies, but the Labour Party was unable to create a program of socialized medicine.

France's Fourth Republic collapsed and Charles de Gaulle came to power in 1958 because of disastrous French defeats in Vietnam.

Talk about: -Hungarian uprising

The belief that Communist aggression fed off of economic turmoil was instrumental in the formulation of

Talk about: -Elvis Presley and the Beatles

Talk about: -Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism

Postwar Italian politics was characterized by

Compare and contrast the political, social, and economic histories of Eastern Europe and Western Europe in the postwar decades. What factors account for the differences?

Which of the following statements concerning postwar Great Britain is FALSE?

Talk about: -"missile gap"

Talk about: -Konrad Adenauer

An American-supported invasion of the Bay of Pigs in 1961 had as its mission

What were the major political developments in the history of the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1970? How did Soviet policies affect the history of Eastern Europe?

Talk about: -NATO

All of the following statements regarding women in the post-war era are correct EXCEPT

What were the major developments in domestic politics in Western Europe, and how were they expressed in France, West Germany, and Great Britain? What efforts toward unity were made by Western European states?

What attitudes and actions sparked the Cold War? Was one of the superpowers more responsible for its start than the other? Why or why not?

Existentialism stressed

Talk about: -Marshall Plan

Due to its strong democratic traditions, the last Eastern European country to fall under Soviet, one-party domination after World War II was