Question 1

Following World War II,the one segment of the work force that expanded most rapidly was:

Accepted Answer

A)   agricultural workers.
B)   factory line workers.
C)   top management.
D)   white-collar workers.
E)   middle management. B

Question 2

During the Vietnam War,many people opposed to the war took direct action against it by refusing to register for the draft or refusing induction into the armed forces.Among those who encouraged this action were Dr.Benjamin Spock,the nation's leading pediatrician,and _________,the chaplain of Yale University.

Accepted Answer

A)   Leonard Nimoy
B)   Daniel Berrigan
C)   William Sloane Coffin
D)   William Appleman Williams
E)   Hunter Thompson C

Question 3

In November 1989 the embodiment of the Cold War,the _________,was torn down by ordinary citizens.

Accepted Answer

A)   Iron Curtain
B)   Great Wall
C)   Moscow Wall
D)   Kremlin
E)   Berlin Wall E

Question 4

Race music was the term given to the special efforts,especially within the factories,to blend the increasingly hostile ethnic groups of the Soviet Union together.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

The term ethnic cleansing was coined in reference to:

Accepted Answer

A)   Russian efforts to shed responsibility for republics with non-European majority populations after 1991.
B)   deliberate campaigns of terror conducted by Serbian guerrillas in Bosnia, to force the flight of much larger populations of Muslims and Croatians.
C)   the efforts of ethnic Albanians to rid Kosovo of ethnic Serbs through guerrilla warfare and terrorism.
D)   new German immigration policies restricting opportunities for foreigners who were not ethnically German.
E)   actions taken by the Romani in Yugoslavia to expel all Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians from their territory.

Question 6

How did changing ideas of class in Western Europe differ from patterns in the Eastern bloc?

Accepted Answer

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Question 7

The last general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was:

Accepted Answer

A)   Nicholae Ceausescu.
B)   Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
C)   Mikhail Gorbachev.
D)   Andrei Sakharov.
E)   Boris Yeltsin.

Question 8

Much of Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and 1990s made the transformation from communism to democracy peacefully; there were some exceptions,most notably in Yugoslavia under the rule of:

Accepted Answer

A)   Slobodan Milosevic.
B)   Wassily Kandinsky.
C)   Franco Tudjman.
D)   Ljubljana Zagreb.
E)   Nicolae Ceauçescu.

Question 9

In the 1960s,a crack in the monolithic façade of the Americanization of Western culture appeared on the music scene with:

Accepted Answer

A)   the "British invasion."
B)   the popularity of reggae.
C)   the "French invasion."
D)   the resurgence of classical music.
E)   the "German invasion."

Question 10

The "British invasion" was a group of successful British rock and roll bands that blended the American sounds of the new music of the 1960s with the inflections of their own poverty and defiance and added touches of music-hall showmanship.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

In the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev,education was aimed at:

Accepted Answer

A)   providing the state with engineers and scientists so that they would "win" the space race.
B)   increasing the efficiency of Soviet industry so that it might better compete with the West.
C)   providing jobs for those college graduates who could not function in the economy; they could teach if they could not produce.
D)   unifying a nation that remained, fifty years after its founding, culturally heterogeneous.
E)   providing the state with the expertise to continue to compete favorably with the West militarily.

Question 12

Film in the changing mass culture put the emphasis on the actor,not the writer,and elevated many to superstardom.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Which of the following was NOT a disturbing follow-up to the dissolution of the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

A)   economic buccaneering by Russian and foreign entrepreneurs that often included organized crime
B)   the emergence of the United States as the sole superpower in the world
C)   bitter ethnic conflicts on the margins of Russia, which persisted throughout the 1990s
D)   the near collapse of Russia's currency accompanied by severe economic hardship
E)   the fragmentation of the Warsaw Pact into competing factions

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT true of culture in the 1950s and 1960s?

Accepted Answer

A)   Social transformations in the postwar world gave families more money and leisure time which would lead to a transformation of culture: a cultural revolution.
B)   Given the large numbers of young people as a result of the "baby boom," the mass culture of the 1950s and 1960s would be expressed primarily through music.
C)   After victory in World War II, Western society settled once more into the traditional patterns of the past with men working outside the home and women staying home with children.
D)   The mass culture of the 1950s and 1960s was not confined to music but expanded to include art, initially through abstract expressionism and later in pop art.
E)   all of these

Question 15

To what other year,packed with events and uncertainty,has 1968 frequently been compared?

Accepted Answer

A)   1933, with the emergence or consolidation of reactionary populist regimes
B)   1914, with the sudden rush toward a general European war
C)   1848, with its wave of widespread, idealistic, but ultimately failed popular revolutions
D)   1830, and the French Revolution portrayed in Les Misérables
E)   1815, with the profound shift in the balance of European power and suppression of social dissent

Question 16

One manifestation of the upheavals of 1968 in Europe was:

Accepted Answer

A)   the Prague Spring.
B)   the Sarajevo Awakening.
C)   the Vienna Spring.
D)   the Berlin Summer.
E)   the Moscow Thaw.

Question 17

Transformations of land and agriculture resulted in dramatic changes that enabled Germany,for example,to enjoy a 600 percent increase in the ability to feed its people by 1980.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Which of the following Yugoslav republics first touched off the round of ethnic secessions from that nation in the early 1990s?

Accepted Answer

A)   Croatia
B)   Slovenia
C)   Bosnia-Herzegovina
D)   Serbia
E)   Kosovo

Question 19

Though harshly repressed in Russia,rock and roll made its way into the Soviet Union; pirated records were copied onto X-ray plates salvaged from hospitals.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Resentment by West Germans toward East Germans continued into the 1990s after the Berlin Wall came down because of a "wall in the mind," as it was called by:

Accepted Answer

A)   Konrad Adenauer.
B)   Janos Kadar.
C)   Jirí Menzel.
D)   Günter Grass.
E)   Helmut Kohl.

Exam 28: Red Flags and Velvet Revolutions: The End of the Cold War,1960–1990

Following World War II,the one segment of the work force that expanded most rapidly was:

In November 1989 the embodiment of the Cold War,the _________,was torn down by ordinary citizens.

Race music was the term given to the special efforts,especially within the factories,to blend the increasingly hostile ethnic groups of the Soviet Union together.

The term ethnic cleansing was coined in reference to:

How did changing ideas of class in Western Europe differ from patterns in the Eastern bloc?

The last general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was:

Much of Eastern Europe in the late 1980s and 1990s made the transformation from communism to democracy peacefully; there were some exceptions,most notably in Yugoslavia under the rule of:

In the 1960s,a crack in the monolithic façade of the Americanization of Western culture appeared on the music scene with:

The "British invasion" was a group of successful British rock and roll bands that blended the American sounds of the new music of the 1960s with the inflections of their own poverty and defiance and added touches of music-hall showmanship.

In the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev,education was aimed at:

Film in the changing mass culture put the emphasis on the actor,not the writer,and elevated many to superstardom.

Which of the following was NOT a disturbing follow-up to the dissolution of the Soviet Union?

Which of the following is NOT true of culture in the 1950s and 1960s?

To what other year,packed with events and uncertainty,has 1968 frequently been compared?

One manifestation of the upheavals of 1968 in Europe was:

Transformations of land and agriculture resulted in dramatic changes that enabled Germany,for example,to enjoy a 600 percent increase in the ability to feed its people by 1980.

Which of the following Yugoslav republics first touched off the round of ethnic secessions from that nation in the early 1990s?

Though harshly repressed in Russia,rock and roll made its way into the Soviet Union; pirated records were copied onto X-ray plates salvaged from hospitals.

Resentment by West Germans toward East Germans continued into the 1990s after the Berlin Wall came down because of a "wall in the mind," as it was called by: