Question 1

What was Charles de Gaulle's political affiliation?

Accepted Answer

A)  Socialist 
B)  Monarchist 
C)  Republican 
D)  Communist 
E)  Totalitarian 
A)  Socialist 
B)  Monarchist 
C)  Republican 
D)  Communist 
E)  Totalitarian

Question 2

Which of the following was not a permanent member of the UN Security Council?

Accepted Answer

A)  The United States 
B)  The USSR 
C)  China 
D)  Britain 
E)  Sweden 
A)  The United States 
B)  The USSR 
C)  China 
D)  Britain 
E)  Sweden

Question 3

What was remarkable about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Accepted Answer

A)  It established a code of allowable war tactics when UN intervention had failed. 
B)  It provided an internationally binding code of civil rights. 
C)  It allowed citizens to hold their governments accountable for human rights violations. 
D)  It established a court for the trials of Nazi war criminals. 
E)  It set fundamental guidelines for treatment of prisoners of war. 
A)  It established a code of allowable war tactics when UN intervention had failed. 
B)  It provided an internationally binding code of civil rights. 
C)  It allowed citizens to hold their governments accountable for human rights violations. 
D)  It established a court for the trials of Nazi war criminals. 
E)  It set fundamental guidelines for treatment of prisoners of war.

Question 4

What were the Nuremburg Trials?

Accepted Answer

A)  Laws restricting Jews in Germany that prohibited intermarriage 
B)  The establishment of a provisional government for Germany centered in Nuremburg 
C)  De-Nazification war crime tribunals 
D)  The lawsuit brought against the leaders of collaboration governments 
E)  A repatriation of remaining German Jews into the city of Nuremburg in an act of reparation 
A)  Laws restricting Jews in Germany that prohibited intermarriage 
B)  The establishment of a provisional government for Germany centered in Nuremburg 
C)  De-Nazification war crime tribunals 
D)  The lawsuit brought against the leaders of collaboration governments 
E)  A repatriation of remaining German Jews into the city of Nuremburg in an act of reparation

Question 5

What industry made the consumer goods boom possible in the 1950s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Timber 
B)  Textiles 
C)  Plastics 
D)  Electronics 
E)  Steel 
A)  Timber 
B)  Textiles 
C)  Plastics 
D)  Electronics 
E)  Steel

Question 6

Why did Edvard Beneš resign as president of Czechoslovakia in 1948?

Accepted Answer

A)  He objected to the Czech exclusion from the United Nations. 
B)  His proposal of the Warsaw Pact was rejected. 
C)  He sought capitalist reforms in Czechoslovakia. 
D)  He refused to sign a constitution that outlawed all but the Communist Party. 
E)  He refused to recognize the separation of the Czech Republic from Slovenia. 
A)  He objected to the Czech exclusion from the United Nations. 
B)  His proposal of the Warsaw Pact was rejected. 
C)  He sought capitalist reforms in Czechoslovakia. 
D)  He refused to sign a constitution that outlawed all but the Communist Party. 
E)  He refused to recognize the separation of the Czech Republic from Slovenia.

Question 7

Who was the first prime minister of independent India?

Accepted Answer

A)  Mohandas Gandhi 
B)  Jawaharlal Nehru 
C)  Indira Gandhi 
D)  Gulzarilal Nanda 
E)  Lal Bahadur Shastri 
A)  Mohandas Gandhi 
B)  Jawaharlal Nehru 
C)  Indira Gandhi 
D)  Gulzarilal Nanda 
E)  Lal Bahadur Shastri

Question 8

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Accepted Answer

African American Baptist minis

Question 9

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Nikita Khrushchev

Accepted Answer

Stalin's successor as leader o

Question 10

Under the leadership of Clement Attlee, the Labour Party in postwar England imparted all of the following changes except ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  nationalized medicine 
B)  nationalized transportation 
C)  nationalized the Bank of England 
D)  reorganized the Church of England 
E)  established government-funded pensions for all working citizens 
A)  nationalized medicine 
B)  nationalized transportation 
C)  nationalized the Bank of England 
D)  reorganized the Church of England 
E)  established government-funded pensions for all working citizens

Question 11

The development of Arab nationalism slowed with the creation of Israel.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

Instructions: Please define the following key terms.
-Clement Attlee

Accepted Answer

British prime minister from 19

Question 13

The first superpower confrontation over decolonized territory was in ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Cuba 
B)  North Korea 
C)  China 
D)  Vietnam 
E)  India 
A)  Cuba 
B)  North Korea 
C)  China 
D)  Vietnam 
E)  India

Question 14

What was the goal of the United States in the reconstruction period of World War II?

Accepted Answer

A)  To establish democratic and capitalist markets in newly liberated regions 
B)  To prevent the rise of dictatorships like those of Hitler and Mussolini 
C)  To ensure a stable economy to avoid another Great Depression 
D)  To rebuild economic markets for American industrial products 
E)  All of these. 
A)  To establish democratic and capitalist markets in newly liberated regions 
B)  To prevent the rise of dictatorships like those of Hitler and Mussolini 
C)  To ensure a stable economy to avoid another Great Depression 
D)  To rebuild economic markets for American industrial products 
E)  All of these.

Question 15

Tito's formation of the Non-Aligned Movement focused on ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  supplying military aid to communists independent of Moscow 
B)  engaging in trade arrangements with newly decolonized territories 
C)  producing a hybridized private and centralized economy 
D)  not providing a national infrastructure of a planned economy 
E)  None of these. 
A)  supplying military aid to communists independent of Moscow 
B)  engaging in trade arrangements with newly decolonized territories 
C)  producing a hybridized private and centralized economy 
D)  not providing a national infrastructure of a planned economy 
E)  None of these.

Question 16

Displaced Jews found a new home in ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Israel 
B)  Syria 
C)  Persia 
D)  Yugoslavia 
E)  Cyprus 
A)  Israel 
B)  Syria 
C)  Persia 
D)  Yugoslavia 
E)  Cyprus

Question 17

What was the response of the United States to USSR's blockade of Berlin?

Accepted Answer

A)  The United States built a wall and posted guards to contain communism to East Germany. 
B)  The United States established military outposts with nuclear weapons in Western Europe. 
C)  The United States imposed economic sanctions on the Soviet Union. 
D)  The United States airlifted supplies into Berlin. 
E)  The United States lodged a formal grievance with the United Nations. 
A)  The United States built a wall and posted guards to contain communism to East Germany. 
B)  The United States established military outposts with nuclear weapons in Western Europe. 
C)  The United States imposed economic sanctions on the Soviet Union. 
D)  The United States airlifted supplies into Berlin. 
E)  The United States lodged a formal grievance with the United Nations.

Question 18

Tito openly defied Stalin by ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  refusing to enforce communism in Yugoslavia 
B)  maintaining a close, independent relationship with Bulgaria 
C)  maintaining a free-market economy among industries 
D)  declining to join Cominform 
E)  emphasizing private agriculture rather than nationalized industry 
A)  refusing to enforce communism in Yugoslavia 
B)  maintaining a close, independent relationship with Bulgaria 
C)  maintaining a free-market economy among industries 
D)  declining to join Cominform 
E)  emphasizing private agriculture rather than nationalized industry

Question 19

What year saw the violent culmination of generational tensions in Europe?

Accepted Answer

A)  1966 
B)  1967 
C)  1968 
D)  1969 
E)  1970 
A)  1966 
B)  1967 
C)  1968 
D)  1969 
E)  1970

Question 20

The point where France met resistance in Asian decolonization was in ______________.

Accepted Answer

A)  Korea 
B)  Vietnam 
C)  Bangladesh 
D)  Cambodia 
E)  Laos 
A)  Korea 
B)  Vietnam 
C)  Bangladesh 
D)  Cambodia 
E)  Laos

Exam 28: Europe Divided

What was Charles de Gaulle's political affiliation?

Which of the following was not a permanent member of the UN Security Council?

What was remarkable about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

What were the Nuremburg Trials?

What industry made the consumer goods boom possible in the 1950s?

Why did Edvard Beneš resign as president of Czechoslovakia in 1948?

Who was the first prime minister of independent India?

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. -Nikita Khrushchev

Under the leadership of Clement Attlee, the Labour Party in postwar England imparted all of the following changes except ______________.

The development of Arab nationalism slowed with the creation of Israel.

Instructions: Please define the following key terms. -Clement Attlee

The first superpower confrontation over decolonized territory was in ______________.

What was the goal of the United States in the reconstruction period of World War II?

Tito's formation of the Non-Aligned Movement focused on ______________.

Displaced Jews found a new home in ______________.

What was the response of the United States to USSR's blockade of Berlin?

Tito openly defied Stalin by ______________.

What year saw the violent culmination of generational tensions in Europe?

The point where France met resistance in Asian decolonization was in ______________.

The Origins of the West in the Ancient Near East

Iron Age Civilizations

The Rise of Greek Civilization

From Polis to Cosmopolis: the Hellenistic World

The Rise of Rome

The Roman Empire

Late Antiquity

The Eastern Mediterranean

The Kingdoms of Western Europe

The High Middle Ages

Reversals and Disasters

The Renaissance in Italy and Northern Europe

Europes Age of Expansion

Reform in the Western Church

A Century of Crisis

State Building and the European State System

The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment

Trade and Empire

Revolutionary France and Napoleonic Europe

Restoration and Reform: Conservative and Liberal Europe

Industrialization and Society

The Triumph of the Nation-State

The Culture of Industrial Europe

The Age of Imperialism

War and Revolution

A Decade of Revolutionary Experiments

Democracy Under Siege

Lifting the Iron Curtain

Europe in a Globalizing World

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