Deck 17: Protest and Stagnation: the Western World, 1965-1985

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Answers will vary.

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Answers will vary.

Question 3

What led to the post-World War II feminist movement? What were its goals?

Answer 3

Answers will vary.

Question 4

define the following term:
Antiwar protests and Kent State

Question 5

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

Question 6

define the following term:
marijuana

Question 7

define the following term:
"love-ins"

Question 8

Would "Americanization" be 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 9

define the following term:
Brezhnev Doctrine

Question 10

define the following term:
the birth control pill

Question 11

Taking into consideration the entire spectrum of human affairs, what was Western Civilization's greatest challenge between 1965 and 1985? Why do you think this was more challenging than other important issues of the day?

Question 12

Compare and contrast the American war in Vietnam and the Soviet Union's conflict in Afghanistan. In what ways were they similar? In what ways were they markedly different?

Question 13

Discuss the impact of the birth control pill and the sexual revolution upon western society. Give examples.

Question 14

What major economic problems and consequences plagued the West during the 1970s? How did the U.S., Europe, and the Soviet Union each attempt to resolve these problems? Which country or policies had the greatest success and why?

Question 15

define the following term:
Timothy Leary and LSD

Question 16

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

Question 17

define the following term:
permissive society

Question 18

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

Question 19

define the following term:
University of Nanterre, 1968

Question 20

define the following term:
Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique

Question 21

define the following term:
Lech Walesa and Solidarity

Question 22

define the following term:
the Prague Spring

Question 23

define the following term:
France's François Mitterrand

Question 24

define the following term:
the Berlin Wall

Question 25

define the following term:
Pierre Trudeau

Question 26

define the following term:
Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik

Question 27

define the following term:
the United States and Vietnam

Question 28

define the following term:
Falklands Islands

Question 29

define the following term:
Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker

Question 30

define the following term:
Richard Nixon's "southern strategy"

Question 31

define the following term:
Watergate

Question 32

define the following term:
Ayatollah Khomeini and American hostages

Question 33

define the following term:
Margaret Thatcher

Question 34

define the following term:
the "Reagan revolution" and "supply-side economics"

Question 35

define the following term:
stagflation

Question 36

define the following term:
Thatcherism

Question 37

define the following term:
the European Community/EC

Question 38

define the following term:
the Vietcong

Question 39

define the following term:
feminism

Question 40

define the following term:
domino theory

Question 41

define the following term:
Grace Hopper and COBOL

Question 42

define the following term:
Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach

Question 43

define the following term:
Green parties

Question 44

define the following term:
Antiballistic Missile Treaty (1972)

Question 45

define the following term:
"peace and love"

Question 46

define the following term:
Allen Kaprow and "happenings"

Question 47

define the following term:
poststructuralism (deconstructionism)

Question 48

define the following term:
"evil empire"

Question 49

define the following term:
Postmodernism

Question 50

define the following term:
Helsinki Accords (1975)

Question 51

define the following term:
Mao Zedong and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Question 52

define the following term:
the "four olds" and "permanent revolution" and the Red Guards

Question 53

define the following term:
Nixon and Zedong's "strategic relationship"

Question 54

define the following term:
"equivalence"

Question 55

define the following term:
Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Question 56

define the following term:
Chernobyl, 1986

Question 57

define the following term:
E.F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful

Question 58

define the following term:
détente

Question 59

define the following term:
Michel Foucault

Question 60

define the following term:
"mass sports"

Question 61

In 1966, ____ was founded, with a goal of bringing "women into full participation in the mainstream of American society.

A)Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
B)the sexual revolution
C)the feminist movement
D)the Feminine Mystique
E)National Organization for Women (NOW)

Question 62

Which nation took the initial lead in the sexual revolution of the 1960s?

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

Question 63

Student radicalism in the 1960s was motivated by all of these reasons EXCEPT

A)the Vietnam War.
B)Western society's growing materialism.
C)fear of becoming a cog in Western society's bureaucracies.
D)desire for more democratic decision-making within universities.
E)demand for sexual freedom on campuses.

Question 64

After his election as first secretary of the Communist party in Czechoslovakia, Alexander Dubcek introduced reforms promoting

A)freedom of speech and the press.
B)free access to Western television shows, music and art.
C)increased secret police activities.
D)bans on travel abroad.
E)censorship of all media.

Question 65

define the following term:
rap and Grandmaster Flash

Question 66

Who was the West German chancellor whose policy of Ostpolitik improved relations with East Germany?

A)Willy Brandt
B)Konrad Adenauer
C)Helmut Kohl
D)Helmut Schmidt
E)Walter Ulbricht

Question 67

Which period marked the zenith of European economic growth?

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

Question 68

What best describes the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev?

A)It was completely shut off from Western influences.
B)It stressed worker incentives and increased efficiency in industrial production.
C)It saw heavy industry decline with improvement in agriculture.
D)It threatened to go to war against the People's Republic of China.
E)It had reached parity with the U.S. in nuclear arms, and it allowed some access to Western music and art.

Question 69

What was true about Playboy magazine when it first launched in the 1950s?

A)It had no nudity.
B)It featured images but very little text.
C)It encouraged men to spice up their married sex lives.
D)It encouraged men to find sexual satisfaction outside their marriages.
E)It was banned in its first year.

Question 70

How did some Europeans react to student protests there?

A)They detested what they saw as the lawlessness of the privileged.
B)They blamed student radicals for large numbers of deaths during protests in 1968.
C)They argued that even students within the antiwar movement began to have doubts about their actions.
D)They wanted to see the full police powers of the states of Europe brought down upon the protesters.
E)They demanded that universities withdraw their funding from student protestors.

Question 71

What was a provision of 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 was threatened.

Question 72

All of these statements about Margaret Thatcher are true EXCEPT

A)she was the first female British prime minister.
B)she pledged to increase social welfare programs.
C)she was nicknamed the "Iron Lady."
D)she broke the power of labor unions in England.
E)she implemented economic programs that aided parts of England while others suffered.

Question 73

East German leader Erich Honecker is best known for

A)ordering the construction of  the Berlin Wall in 1961.
B)establishing a virtual dictatorship by using the Stasi or secret police in the 1970s and 1980s.
C)endorsing the political unification of West and East Germany in the late 1980s.
D)leading an unsuccessful independence movement from the Soviet Union in 1953.
E)dismantling the Berlin Wall.

Question 74

A popular slogan of the youth movement of the 1960s was

A)"The Times They Are A Changin'"
B)"Life's a beach."
C)"Dump Nixon"
D)"Make Love, Not War."
E)"We are the flower children."

Question 75

What is true about the Solidarity movement in Poland?

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

Question 76

What is true of the "Prague Spring" in Czechoslovakia?

A)It permanently ended communism.
B)It successfully established a long-lasting democratic government.
C)It was shortly brought to an end by the Red Army.
D)It received support and sympathy from East Germany and Romania.
E)It had the support of Mikhail Gorbachev.

Question 77

Mitterrand improved conditions for workers in France by

A)increasing the minimum wage.
B)decreasing costly social benefits.
C)lowering taxes nationwide.
D)nationalizing the steel industry.
E)guaranteeing all workers four weeks of paid vacation.

Question 78

College and university students in the 1960s opposed all of these conditions in higher education EXCEPT

A)declining enrollments.
B)lack of relevant educational content.
C)crowded classrooms.
D)authoritarian administrators.
E)inattentive professors.

Question 79

According to the ____ embraced by President Johnson and his policymakers, if Vietnam fell to the communists, other Asian countries would also fall.

A)Vietnamization policy
B)containment policy
C)troop escalation theory
D)domino theory
E)State Protection Authority Program

Question 80

In The Feminine Mystique, ____ argued that women in the 1950s were kept from reaching their full human potential.

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