Question 1

IDENTIFICATIONS
-"containment"

Accepted Answer

The answer of IDENTIFICATIONS
-"containment"...

Question 2

IDENTIFICATIONS
-the Great Society

Accepted Answer

The Great Society was a set of domestic

Question 3

The United States, Great Britain, and France initiated the Berlin Blockade to prevent Soviet troops from overrunning West Berlin.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

The philosophical doctrine of existentialism, with its emphasis on God as a fiction, no preordained human destiny, and the human creation of all values

Accepted Answer

A)  was dominant in the universities of Great Britain and the United States. 
B)  concentrated on logic and a theory of knowledge. 
C)  was totally at odds with the confidence and prosperity of the post-war world. 
D)  was best expressed in the works of the French writers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. 
E)  exemplified the spiritualism of the "Age of Aquarius." 
A)  was dominant in the universities of Great Britain and the United States. 
B)  concentrated on logic and a theory of knowledge. 
C)  was totally at odds with the confidence and prosperity of the post-war world. 
D)  was best expressed in the works of the French writers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. 
E)  exemplified the spiritualism of the "Age of Aquarius."

Question 5

As president of France, Charles de Gaulle's position in the Cold War was to

Accepted Answer

A)  closely align France with the Warsaw Pact nations. 
B)  make France the "third" nuclear power and pursue a largely independent political course. 
C)  let American policy guide France and other European nations. 
D)  make France the leading European power in NATO. 
E)  join the non-aligned third-world nations. 
A)  closely align France with the Warsaw Pact nations. 
B)  make France the "third" nuclear power and pursue a largely independent political course. 
C)  let American policy guide France and other European nations. 
D)  make France the leading European power in NATO. 
E)  join the non-aligned third-world nations.

Question 6

IDENTIFICATIONS
-PLO, al-Fatah, and Yasir Arafat

Accepted Answer

The Palestine Liberation Organization (P

Question 7

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s included all of the following except

Accepted Answer

A)  race riots in the Los Angeles district of Watts. 
B)  the Supreme Court upheld racial segregation in public schools in 1954. 
C)  the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 
D)  saw the Supreme Court approve the concept of "separate but equal" in public schools. 
E)  the civil rights leadership of Martin Luther King. 
A)  race riots in the Los Angeles district of Watts. 
B)  the Supreme Court upheld racial segregation in public schools in 1954. 
C)  the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 
D)  saw the Supreme Court approve the concept of "separate but equal" in public schools. 
E)  the civil rights leadership of Martin Luther King.

Question 8

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Warsaw Pact

Accepted Answer

The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance

Question 9

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Vietnam War

Accepted Answer

The Vietnam War, also known as the Secon

Question 10

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Ho Chi Minh

Accepted Answer

Ho Chi Minh (1890–1969) was a Vietnamese

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A)  The National Insurance Act and National Health Service Act made Britain a welfare state in the 1940s. 
B)  Britain suffered from losing its pre-war colonial revenues. 
C)  By the Suez Canal debacle, Britain was no longer a superpower. 
D)  The British economy lagged behind that of several other Western European nations. 
E)  The Conservative party in the 1950s and 1960s revoked nearly all of the welfare legislation passed by the Labour party in the 1940s. 
A)  The National Insurance Act and National Health Service Act made Britain a welfare state in the 1940s. 
B)  Britain suffered from losing its pre-war colonial revenues. 
C)  By the Suez Canal debacle, Britain was no longer a superpower. 
D)  The British economy lagged behind that of several other Western European nations. 
E)  The Conservative party in the 1950s and 1960s revoked nearly all of the welfare legislation passed by the Labour party in the 1940s.

Question 12

The Truman Doctrine did all of the following except

Accepted Answer

A)  condemn the victory of the Communists in the Chinese civil war. 
B)  call for $400 million in aid for nations threatened by aggression 
C)  assist in the defense of Greece and Turkey. 
D)  express America's fear of Communist expansion in Europe. 
E)  announce the United States' intention to support "free peoples" throughout the world. 
A)  condemn the victory of the Communists in the Chinese civil war. 
B)  call for $400 million in aid for nations threatened by aggression 
C)  assist in the defense of Greece and Turkey. 
D)  express America's fear of Communist expansion in Europe. 
E)  announce the United States' intention to support "free peoples" throughout the world.

Question 13

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Berlin Wall

Accepted Answer

The Berlin Wall was a fortified barrier

Question 14

IDENTIFICATIONS
-uhuru

Accepted Answer

Uhuru is a Swahili word that means "free

Question 15

Television did not become readily available until

Accepted Answer

A)  the early 1930s. 
B)  the 1940s. 
C)  the 1950s. 
D)  the 1960s. 
E)  the 1970s. 
A)  the early 1930s. 
B)  the 1940s. 
C)  the 1950s. 
D)  the 1960s. 
E)  the 1970s.

Question 16

IDENTIFICATIONS
-"missile gap"

Accepted Answer

The "missile gap" was a term used during

Question 17

IDENTIFICATIONS
-African National Congress

Accepted Answer

The African National Congress (ANC) is a

Question 18

IDENTIFICATIONS
-EEC/Common Market

Accepted Answer

The European Economic Community (EEC), a

Question 19

IDENTIFICATIONS
-Korean War

Accepted Answer

The Korean War, which lasted from 1950 t

Question 20

The Cold War policy adopted in the mid-1950s by the Eisenhower administration was

Accepted Answer

A)  containment. 
B)  détente. 
C)  MAD (mutually assured destruction). 
D)  massive retaliation. 
E)  all of the above. 
A)  containment. 
B)  détente. 
C)  MAD (mutually assured destruction). 
D)  massive retaliation. 
E)  all of the above.

Exam 28: cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965

IDENTIFICATIONS -"containment"

IDENTIFICATIONS -the Great Society

The United States, Great Britain, and France initiated the Berlin Blockade to prevent Soviet troops from overrunning West Berlin.

The philosophical doctrine of existentialism, with its emphasis on God as a fiction, no preordained human destiny, and the human creation of all values

As president of France, Charles de Gaulle's position in the Cold War was to

IDENTIFICATIONS -PLO, al-Fatah, and Yasir Arafat

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s included all of the following except

IDENTIFICATIONS -Warsaw Pact

IDENTIFICATIONS -Vietnam War

IDENTIFICATIONS -Ho Chi Minh

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

The Truman Doctrine did all of the following except

IDENTIFICATIONS -Berlin Wall

IDENTIFICATIONS -uhuru

Television did not become readily available until

IDENTIFICATIONS -"missile gap"

IDENTIFICATIONS -African National Congress

IDENTIFICATIONS -EEC/Common Market

IDENTIFICATIONS -Korean War

The Cold War policy adopted in the mid-1950s by the Eisenhower administration was

the Ancient Near East: the First Civilizations

the Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires

the Civilization of the Greeks

the Hellenistic World

the Roman Republic

the Roman Empire

late Antiquity and the Emergence of the Medieval World

european Civilization in the Early Middle Ages, 750-1000

the Recovery and Growth of European Society in the High Middle Ages

the Rise of Kingdoms and the Growth of Church Power

the Later Middle Ages: Crisis and Disintegration in the Fourteenth Century

recovery and Rebirth: the Age of the Renaissance

reformation and Religious Warfare in the Sixteenth Century

europe and the World: New Encounters, 1500-1800

state Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century

toward a New Heaven and a New Earth: the Scientific Revolution and the Emergence of Modern Science

the Eighteenth Century: an Age of Enlightenment

the Eighteenth Century: European States, International Wars, and Social Change

a Revolution in Politics: the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

the Industrial Revolution and Its Impact on European Society

reaction, Revolution, and Romanticism, 1815-1850

an Age of Nationalism and Realism, 1850-1871

mass Society in an "Age of Progress," 1871-1894

an Age of Modernity, Anxiety, and Imperialism, 1894-1914

the Beginning of the Twentieth-century Crisis: War and Revolution

the Futile Search for Stability: Europe Between the Wars, 1919-1939

the Deepening of the European Crisis: World War Ii

protest and Stagnation: the Western World, 1965-1985

after the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age (Since 1985)

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