Exam 28: Postindustrial Society and the End of the Cold War Order, 1960s-1989

U.S. president Richard M. Nixon's 1972 visit to what country helped to speed up the process of détente between the United States and the Soviet Union?

What were some of the policies enacted by Lyndon B. Johnson that prompted the Black novelist Ralph Ellison to call him "the greatest American president for the poor and the Negroes"?

Describe how Margaret Thatcher reshaped the West's political and economic ideas in the 1980s. What impact did her policies have on Europe? What were the consequences of her economic and political policies?

Which of the following is an example of how postindustrial life in the Soviet bloc differed from life in the West?

Describe the groups who were most active in protests beginning in the 1960s. To what extent might the prosperity of society have contributed to their anger?

As neoliberalism took hold in the 1980s and 1990s and European governments began cutting the welfare state, which country maintained a full array of social programs?

What was the title of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book that detailed life in Soviet forced-labor camps and brought about his expulsion from the USSR?

What was the Solidarity movement? ​

Historians have observed that, whereas early modern families focused their efforts on independent subsistence production and the teaching of craft skills to younger generations, postindustrial families

Richard Nixon won election as president of the United States in 1968 partly because of what campaign promise?

Why did European governments in the postwar era fund both radio and television broadcasting with tax dollars?

Why did Soviet-bloc nations often have great difficulty applying their achievements in science to commercial applications?

What was the climactic moment of the "space race" between the United States and the Soviet Union?

Which of the following nations experienced the greatest concentration of popular demonstrations against communism from 1989 through 1990? ​ ​

The combination of economic conditions-rising prices, rising interest rates, and high unemployment-that hit the oil-dependent Western nations as a result of the OPEC oil embargo became known as what?

What did one philosopher mean when, in the last third of the twentieth century, she proclaimed that people had become cyborgs?

The Black Panthers compared their struggle in the United States to

The Airbus project was an example of the

In what ways could protests by European students in the 1960s be characterized as an expression of individualism, and how did they show this in their lifestyles and attire?

In what ways was the study of anthropology, and the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss in particular, influenced by the ways in which Western societies were ordered and run?