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

Explain how the idea of the cold war as a struggle between Western democracies and international communism for world domination was weakened by events of the 1970s.

Which of the following was a system through which government-banned literature was secretly published and distributed in the Soviet Union?

The 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey not only reflected the enormous popular interest in space but also showed that science fiction was increasingly

Intelsat I, the first commercial communications satellite, was launched in 1965 and was an example of

What was the main approach to foreign policy followed by Ronald Reagan?

Ronald Reagan was U.S. president from 1981 until 1989. During this time, he addressed economic crises as well as foreign policy concerns surrounding the Soviet Union and the cold war. Explain how President Reagan approached the economic crisis in the United States during this time and what influenced his economic policies. Then describe Reagan's approach to foreign policy, particularly when it came to the cold war and relations with the Soviet Union.

According to this map, who mobilized to Czechoslovakia in 1968 during the Prague Spring? ​ ​

The West German foreign minister Willy Brandt's anti-cold war policy of opening up trade with Communist East Germany in the late 1960s was known as what?

How did the development of multinational corporations change the global economy?

Which of the following nations was the first to become free from communism? ​ ​

In 1952, scientists Francis Crick and James Watson made which of the following discoveries?

How did the new working class in postindustrial society undermine old socioeconomic distinctions?

Which of the following measures did French president Charles de Gaulle undertake in an effort to assert French independence in a world increasingly dominated by superpower rivalry?

Which of the following was a technological advancement of the 1960s?

What was the consequence of the negotiations that produced SALT I?

What Polish labor movement led by Lech Walesa and Anna Walentynowicz, workers at the shipyards of Gdańsk, Poland, helped bring down Soviet communism? ​

The two maps reproduced here collectively exemplify the emergence of what in 1970s Europe? ​ ​

In what country did British troops fire on nationalists and civil rights demonstrators in a 1972 event known as "Bloody Sunday"?

Mikhail Gorbachev's program of economic "restructuring," intended to increase productivity and gradually introduce market-based incentives, was called

What was distinctive about the 1968 revolt in Czechoslovakia, also known as the Prague Spring?