Deck 29: protest and Stagnation: the Western World, 1965-1985

Question 1

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Antiwar protests and Kent State

Answer 1

Not answer

Question 2

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marijuana

Answer 2

Not answer

Question 3

Identify and discuss the causes and the consequences of the student rebellions of the 1960s and 1970s.

Answer 3

Not answer

Question 4

Identify and discuss Marshall McLuhan's 1960s concept of the "global village." Has he been an accurate forecaster of events from the vantage point of the early twenty-first century?

Question 5

Discuss the causes and consequences of the protest movements of the 1960s, including successes and failures.

Question 6

Taking into consideration the entire spectrum of human affairs, what was Western Civilization's greatest challenge between 1965 and 1985?

Question 7

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University of Nanterre, 1968

Question 8

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Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique

Question 9

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Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man

Question 10

Discuss the impact of the birth control pill upon western society.

Question 11

In what ways does the post-World War II feminist movement resemble the feminist movement of the nineteenth century? In what ways is it different?

Question 12

Compare and contrast America war in Vietnam and the Soviet Union's conflict in Afghanistan.

Question 13

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the birth control pill

Question 14

Were the ongoing processes of globalization doing more to benefit the interests of the few or of the many? Be sure to sift through the chapter to provide evidence for your answer.

Question 15

What major economic problems and consequences that plagued the West during the 1970s?

Question 16

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Timothy Leary and LSD

Question 17

Between 1965 and 1985, did new technologies and new scientific discoveries do more to benefit or to harm the planet and its inhabitants?

Question 18

Would it be accurate to say that all, or at least most, of the popular culture of this period was Postmodern?

Question 19

Is "Americanization" the proper word to use when describing the popular culture of the Western world since World War II? Why and/or why not? Be specific.

Question 20

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permissive society

Question 21

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Canada's Pierre Trudeau and Brian Mulroney

Question 22

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the "Reagan revolution" and "supply-side economics"

Question 23

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Ayatollah Khomeini and American hostages

Question 24

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Richard Nixon's "southern strategy"

Question 25

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Italy's Eurocommunism

Question 26

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the Prague Spring

Question 27

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Brezhnev Doctrine

Question 28

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Watergate

Question 29

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Falklands Island/war

Question 30

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Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik

Question 31

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Jimmy Carter and stagflation

Question 32

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the European Community/EC

Question 33

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Lech Walesa and Solidarity

Question 34

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Hungary's Janos Kadar

Question 35

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Margaret Thatcher/the "Iron Lady" and Thatcherism

Question 36

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France's Francois Mitterrand

Question 37

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East Germany's Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker

Question 38

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Second Vietnam War

Question 39

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the Berlin Wall

Question 40

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the Vietcong

Question 41

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détente

Question 42

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the "evil empire"

Question 43

the "four olds" and "permanent revolution" and the Red Guards

Question 44

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Postmodernism

Question 45

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the space race and Sputnik

Question 46

Ferdinand de Saussure and structuralism

Question 47

Mao Zedong and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Question 48

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Helsinki Agreements, 1975

Question 49

Allen Kaprow and "happenings"

Question 50

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"equivalence"

Question 51

Nixon and Zedong and a "strategic relationship"

Question 52

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Antiballistic Missile Treaty, 1972

Question 53

Jacques Derrida and deconstructionism

Question 54

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Grace Hopper and COBOL

Question 55

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Green parties

Question 56

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Chernobyl, 1986

Question 57

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the domino theory

Question 58

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E.F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful

Question 59

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Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)/"Star Wars"

Question 60

"magic realism" and Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

Question 61

Marshall McLuhan and the "global village"

Question 62

"peace and love"

Question 63

The song, "The Times They Are A-Changin'," was written by

A) the Beatles.
B) Elvis Presley.
C) Credence Clearwater Revival.
D) Bob Dylan.
E) Bob Marley.

Question 64

The "permissive society" is characterized by all of the following except

A) sexual freedom.
B) experimentation with drugs.
C) decriminalization of homosexuality.
D) increasing rates of divorce.
E) declining rates of divorce.

Question 65

Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach

Question 66

Alexander Dubcek introduced all of the following reforms in Czechoslovakia except

A) freedom of speech.
B) freedom of the press.
C) a cessation of secret police activities.
D) freedom to travel abroad.
E) a relaxation of secret police activities.

Question 67

In the 1960s, college and university students complained and demonstrated against all of the following except:

A) declining enrollments.
B) lack of a relevant educational experience.
C) crowded classrooms.
D) authoritarian administrators.
E) uncaring professors and instructors.

Question 68

The Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev

A) was completely shut off from Western influences.
B) stressed worker incentives and increased efficiency in industrial production.
C) saw heavy industry decline with improvement in agriculture.
D) threatened to go to war against the People's Republic of China.
E) was relatively stable, although it threatened Soviet intervention when socialism was threatened in eastern European nations.

Question 69

The nation that initially took the lead in the sexual revolution of the 1960s was

A) the United States.
B) France.
C) Italy.
D) Sweden.
E) the Soviet Union.

Question 70

Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Question 71

The influential philosopher who believed that a small group of students could liberate the masses from their control of the capitalist ruling class was

A) Betty Friedan.
B) Herbert Marcuse.
C) Marshall McLuhan.
D) Jacques Derida.
E) Milan Kundera.

Question 72

"mass sports", football/soccer and the World Cup

Question 73

The author of The Feminine Mystique and who was a founder of the National Organization of Women was

A) Rachel Carson.
B) Betty Ford.
C) Simone Beauvoir.
D) Kathleen Windsor.
E) Betty Friedan.

Question 74

Playboy magazine

A) originally had no nudity.
B) originally had images but no text.
C) encouraged men to spice up their married sex lives.
D) encouraged men to find sexual satisfaction outside their marriages.
E) was banned the year it came out.

Question 75

punk rock and the Sex Pistols and hip-hop and Grandmaster Flash

Question 76

Olivier Messiaen and serialism

Question 77

Under the Brezhnev Doctrine

A) the Soviet Union promised to clean up its international reputation.
B) the Soviets attempted to roll back capitalism everywhere.
C) more political freedoms were granted at home.
D) the Eastern bloc countries were set free from Moscow's control.
E) the Soviets declared the right of intervention if a socialist state were threatened.

Question 78

Student protests in Europe backfired to an extent as

A) some people detested what they saw as the lawlessness of the privileged.
B) too many people died during protests in 1968.
C) the students themselves began to have doubts.
D) the full police powers of the states of Europe were brought down upon the protesters.
E) their university funding was withdrawn.

Question 79

The Solidarity movement in Poland

A) was temporarily crushed by General Lech Walesa in 1981.
B) failed to gain massive support due to stiff opposition from the conservative Catholic church.
C) was formed by Wladyslaw Gomulka in 1956.
D) lacked solidarity and quickly disintegrated and disappeared in 1980.
E) was outlawed in 1981 and its leaders arrested.

Question 80

What might be called the zenith of European economic growth was from

A) 1789 to 1815.
B) 1851 to 1914.
C) 1921 to 1929.
D) 1945 to 1965.
E) 1973 to 1985.