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

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Answers may vary.

Question 2

define the following term:
the birth control pill

Answer 2

Answers may vary.

Question 3

define the following term:
feminism and Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique

Answer 3

Answers may vary.

Question 4

define the following term:
Timothy Leary and LSD

Question 5

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

Question 6

define the following term:
permissive society

Question 7

define the following term:
Brezhnev Doctrine

Question 8

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 9

define the following term:
Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man

Question 10

define the following term:
University of Nanterre, 1968

Question 11

define the following term:
marijuana

Question 12

What causes mobilized the revolts of the 1960s and 1970s? How successful were protests at resolving the grievances of the participants?

Question 13

In what ways does the feminist movement between 1965 and 1985 resemble the feminist movement of the nineteenth century? How did the two differ in their goals and methods?

Question 14

What domestic social, political, and economic factors impacted the development of Western civilization between 1965 and 1985? What developments were the result of the West's interactions with the rest of the world?

Question 15

define the following term:
détente

Question 16

define the following term:
Antiwar protests and Kent State

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

What are the ideas associated with 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 19

Compare and contrast the American war in Vietnam and the Soviet Union's conflict in Afghanistan. What does each reveal about the relationship between the superpowers and the limits of their power?

Question 20

Did the ongoing processes of globalization during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s do more to benefit the interests of the few or of the many?

Question 21

define the following term:
Italy's Eurocommunism

Question 22

define the following term:
Canada's Pierre Trudeau and Brian Mulroney

Question 23

define the following term:
the European Community/EC

Question 24

define the following term:
the Berlin Wall

Question 25

define the following term:
Second Vietnam War

Question 26

define the following term:
the Prague Spring

Question 27

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

Question 28

define the following term:
Falklands Island and the Falklands War

Question 29

define the following term:
France's François Mitterrand

Question 30

define the following term:
Ayatollah Khomeini and American hostages

Question 31

define the following term:
Hungary's János Kádár

Question 32

define the following term:
Watergate

Question 33

define the following term:
East Germany's Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker

Question 34

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

Question 35

define the following term:
the domino theory

Question 36

define the following term:
Jimmy Carter and stagflation

Question 37

define the following term:
the Vietcong

Question 38

define the following term:
Lech Walesa and Solidarity

Question 39

define the following term:
Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik

Question 40

define the following term:
Margaret Thatcher (the "Iron Lady")and Thatcherism

Question 41

define the following term:
Chernobyl, 1986

Question 42

define the following term:
the space race and Sputnik

Question 43

define the following term:
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)/"Star Wars"

Question 44

define the following term:
Green parties

Question 45

define the following term:
Antiballistic Missile Treaty, 1972

Question 46

define the following term:
Postmodernism

Question 47

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

Question 48

define the following term:
Olivier Messiaen and serialism

Question 49

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

Question 50

define the following term:
the "evil empire"

Question 51

define the following term:
Nixon, Zedong and a "strategic relationship"

Question 52

define the following term:
"magic realism" and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

Question 53

define the following term:
Grace Hopper and COBOL

Question 54

define the following term:
Ferdinand de Saussure and structuralism

Question 55

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

Question 56

define the following term:
Helsinki Agreements, 1975

Question 57

define the following term:
"equivalence"

Question 58

define the following term:
Allen Kaprow and "happenings"

Question 59

define the following term:
Jacques Derrida and deconstruction

Question 60

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

Question 61

In Czechoslovakia, the "Prague Spring"

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

Question 62

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 63

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 64

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 65

The resignation of Antonín Novotný in Czechoslovakia was precipitated by

A)a mass protest in Prague.
B)his denunciation by the Soviets as an enemy of the Communist Party.
C)a writers' rebellion.
D)a coup by the Christian Democrats.
E)the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Red Army.

Question 66

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 67

define the following term:
"peace and love"

Question 68

The East German leader Erich Honecker was most noted for

A)building the Berlin Wall in 1961.
B)establishing a virtual dictatorship by using the Stasi or secret police in the 1970s and 1980s.
C)urging 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 69

define the following term:
"mass sports" and the World Cup

Question 70

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 71

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

Question 72

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 73

The Solidarity movement in Poland

A)was temporarily crushed by General Lech Wa ³ê sa 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 cohesion and quickly disintegrated and disappeared in 1980.
E)was outlawed in 1981 and its leaders arrested.

Question 74

During the 1960s the recreational drug of choice for most college and university students was

A)powder cocaine.
B)heroine.
C)crack.
D)LSD.
E)marijuana.

Question 75

The Ohio National Guard killed four student protesters in 1970 at

A)the Ohio State University.
B)the University of Ohio.
C)Bowling Green State University.
D)the University of Toledo.
E)Kent State University.

Question 76

define the following term:
Marshall McLuhan and the "global village"

Question 77

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 78

define the following term:
punk rock and hip-hop

Question 79

Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man

A)argued that productive political change could come only from the eiltes.
B)posited that capitalism was responsible for heightening the discontent of the masses.
C)theorized that unindoctrinated students could liberate the masses from their elite oppressors.
D)sought to quell student rebellions by proposing a revised curriculum that emphasized practical, real-world knowledge.
E)inspired successful protests by German university students.

Question 80

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.