Question 1

The so-called "Americanization of the world" has resulted from all of the following influences except

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A) Hollywood movies. 
B) popular musical forms such as jazz and rock and roll. 
C) television. 
D) advertising. 
E) the bleak world-view of absurdist drama and literature. 
A) Hollywood movies. 
B) popular musical forms such as jazz and rock and roll. 
C) television. 
D) advertising. 
E) the bleak world-view of absurdist drama and literature.

Question 2

Which of the following was not a problem faced by the government of Helmut Kohl?

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A) the armed hostility of France 
B) high levels of unemployment and social discontent in the eastern part of Germany 
C) the collapsed East German economy 
D) runaway budget deficits 
E) higher taxes and a disgruntled populace 
A) the armed hostility of France 
B) high levels of unemployment and social discontent in the eastern part of Germany 
C) the collapsed East German economy 
D) runaway budget deficits 
E) higher taxes and a disgruntled populace

Question 3

Identify the following terms.
-Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady," and Thatcherism

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The answer of Identify the following terms.
-Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron...

Question 4

Identify the following terms.
-women's liberation movement

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The women's liberation movement, also kn

Question 5

When Iranian terrorists killed eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Moscow Olympic Games, hundreds of millions of people watched the dramatic incident on television.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

The reestablishment of multinational corporations in Latin America were invited to take advantage of the burgeoning economy of the 1950-60's by​

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A) ​the Pan-American Economic Consortium 
B) ​newly decolonized democratic nations like Guiana and Honduras. 
C) ​emerging middle class business partners in Venezuela and Peru. 
D) ​repressive military regimes in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. 
E) ​popular referendum in Columbia, Panama and Nicaragua, fighting against encroaching Marxists. 
A) ​the Pan-American Economic Consortium 
B) ​newly decolonized democratic nations like Guiana and Honduras. 
C) ​emerging middle class business partners in Venezuela and Peru. 
D) ​repressive military regimes in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile. 
E) ​popular referendum in Columbia, Panama and Nicaragua, fighting against encroaching Marxists.

Question 7

Which of the following is a correct statement about postwar Canadian political development?

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A) Lester Pearson advocated political union with the United States. 
B) The Liberal Party created Canada's welfare state. 
C) Brian Mulroney opposed a free trades agreement with the United States that was very well received by all Canadians. 
D) Quebec was granted independence in 2006, as a result of the national referendum. 
E) Vast oil reserves were discovered off the coast of British Columbia. 
A) Lester Pearson advocated political union with the United States. 
B) The Liberal Party created Canada's welfare state. 
C) Brian Mulroney opposed a free trades agreement with the United States that was very well received by all Canadians. 
D) Quebec was granted independence in 2006, as a result of the national referendum. 
E) Vast oil reserves were discovered off the coast of British Columbia.

Question 8

Samuel Beckett, in Waiting for Godot, developed the dramatic movement known as

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A) Cubism. 
B) the Theater of the Absurd. 
C) Synergetic Surrealism. 
D) Monism. 
E) Didacticism. 
A) Cubism. 
B) the Theater of the Absurd. 
C) Synergetic Surrealism. 
D) Monism. 
E) Didacticism.

Question 9

Identify the following terms.
-Treaty of Rome/European Economic Community (EEC)

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The Treaty of Rome, officially known as

Question 10

Identify the following terms.
-1968 student protests

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The 1968 student protests refer to a glo

Question 11

The two writers who were closely associated with existentialism were

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A) Jackson Pollock and Simone de Beauvoir. 
B) Samuel Beckett and Timothy Leary. 
C) Alan Turing and J.Robert Oppenheimer. 
D) E.F.Schumacher and Bob Dylan. 
E) Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. 
A) Jackson Pollock and Simone de Beauvoir. 
B) Samuel Beckett and Timothy Leary. 
C) Alan Turing and J.Robert Oppenheimer. 
D) E.F.Schumacher and Bob Dylan. 
E) Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.

Question 12

The women's movement writer of The Second Sex was

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A) Simone de Cognac. 
B) Simone de Beauvoir. 
C) Adrienne Koch. 
D) Germaine Greer. 
E) Christabel Pankhurst. 
A) Simone de Cognac. 
B) Simone de Beauvoir. 
C) Adrienne Koch. 
D) Germaine Greer. 
E) Christabel Pankhurst.

Question 13

Why was US concern over Marxist and Communist revolutions more intensified in the Caribbean and Latin American states than in Africa as it decolonized? Why did the US under Kennedy, Reagan and George H.W. Bush promote more direct intervention in areas like Cuba and Nicaragua than ​in places with brutal military regimes?

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The US concern over Marxist and Communis

Question 14

Which statement about permissiveness in Western society is accurate?

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A) Permissiveness dropped significantly after 1955. 
B) Sexual habits have not been affected by the new attitudes. 
C) Increased drug consumption became a part of modern permissiveness for many. 
D) No relationship can be discovered between pornography, prostitution, and modern attitudes of permissiveness. 
E) Political consciousness and youth protest has shown no relationship to rising permissiveness. 
A) Permissiveness dropped significantly after 1955. 
B) Sexual habits have not been affected by the new attitudes. 
C) Increased drug consumption became a part of modern permissiveness for many. 
D) No relationship can be discovered between pornography, prostitution, and modern attitudes of permissiveness. 
E) Political consciousness and youth protest has shown no relationship to rising permissiveness.

Question 15

Between 1945 and the late 1970s,

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A) of the nations of Europe, only France had fully recovered from the physical devastation of World War II. 
B) the British governments abandoned the "welfare state" after losing Britain's empire. 
C) Charles de Gaulle had crafted an ingeniously oblique fascist state until he was toppled from power due to his inability to restrain terrorism in Algeria and Vietnam. 
D) the gross national product of France grew at an average annual rate of 5.5 percent during the decade following 1958. 
E) British economic growth averaged over ten percent per year during the 1950s. 
A) of the nations of Europe, only France had fully recovered from the physical devastation of World War II. 
B) the British governments abandoned the "welfare state" after losing Britain's empire. 
C) Charles de Gaulle had crafted an ingeniously oblique fascist state until he was toppled from power due to his inability to restrain terrorism in Algeria and Vietnam. 
D) the gross national product of France grew at an average annual rate of 5.5 percent during the decade following 1958. 
E) British economic growth averaged over ten percent per year during the 1950s.

Question 16

How did the creation of "welfare states" such as that by Attlee, influence the socialist and leftist movements in West Germany, France, and other areas of Western Europe? How did this invoke the rise of neo-conservativism at the end of the century? ​What effects did this have economically and socially?

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The creation of "welfare states" such as

Question 17

Identify the following terms.
-Green parties and Chernobyl

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Green parties are political organization

Question 18

In 2000, fighting in which breakaway Russian state reduced the republic's capital of Grozny to ruins?

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A) Georgia. 
B) Kasavyurt. 
C) Chechnya. 
D) Dagestan. 
E) Makhachkala. 
A) Georgia. 
B) Kasavyurt. 
C) Chechnya. 
D) Dagestan. 
E) Makhachkala.

Question 19

What are the challenges presented by international terrorism since 1970? In a discussion of three or four specific events or movements, what are some of the commonalities and some of the differences between them?

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The challenges presented by internationa

Question 20

Identify the following terms.
-Angela Merkel

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Angela Merkel is a German politician who

Exam 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

The so-called "Americanization of the world" has resulted from all of the following influences except

Which of the following was not a problem faced by the government of Helmut Kohl?

Identify the following terms. -Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady," and Thatcherism

Identify the following terms. -women's liberation movement

When Iranian terrorists killed eleven Israeli athletes at the 1972 Moscow Olympic Games, hundreds of millions of people watched the dramatic incident on television.

The reestablishment of multinational corporations in Latin America were invited to take advantage of the burgeoning economy of the 1950-60's by​

Which of the following is a correct statement about postwar Canadian political development?

Samuel Beckett, in Waiting for Godot, developed the dramatic movement known as

Identify the following terms. -Treaty of Rome/European Economic Community (EEC)

Identify the following terms. -1968 student protests

The two writers who were closely associated with existentialism were

The women's movement writer of The Second Sex was

Which statement about permissiveness in Western society is accurate?

Between 1945 and the late 1970s,

Identify the following terms. -Green parties and Chernobyl

In 2000, fighting in which breakaway Russian state reduced the republic's capital of Grozny to ruins?

What are the challenges presented by international terrorism since 1970? In a discussion of three or four specific events or movements, what are some of the commonalities and some of the differences between them?

Identify the following terms. -Angela Merkel

Early Humans and the First Civilizations

Ancient India

China in Antiquity

The Civilization of the Greeks

The First World Civilizations: Rome, China, and the Emergence of the Silk Road

The Americas

Ferment in the Middle East: the Rise of Islam

Early Civilizations in Africa

The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia

The Flowering of Traditional China

The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, Korea, and Vietnam

The Making of Europe

The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the West

New Encounters: the Creation of a World Market

Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building

The Muslim Empires

The East Asian World

The West on the Eve of a New World Order

The Beginnings of Modernization: Industrialization and Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century

The Americas and Society and Culture in the West

The High Tide of Imperialism

Shadows Over the Pacific: East Asia Under Challenge

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

Nationalism, Revolution, and Dictatorship: Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America From 1919 to 1939

The Crisis Deepens: World War 2

East and West in the Grip of the Cold War

Brave New World: Communism on Trial

Challenges of Nation Building in Africa and the Middle East

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