Deck 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

Question 1

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student protests and campus revolts of the late 1960s

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Question 2

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Vladimir Putin

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Question 3

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Konrad Adenauer

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Question 4

How has the growth of permissiveness, as well as changes in the status of women, and the emergence of modern terrorism influenced Western society during the last thirty years? Which has had the deepest impact, and why?

Question 5

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Helmut Kohl and German reunification

Question 6

How well did France handle the changes brought by the results of World War II and the loss of its colonial empire? Were the ideas of Charles de Gaulle realistic or nostalgic? Why?

Question 7

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Willi Brandt and Ostpolitik

Question 8

Have the major social and economic changes in Latin American societies made them more or less alike? Is it still accurate to treat them individually, or is it now more appropriate to analyze them regionally? Why or why not, in the light of developments since 1945?

Question 9

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Charles de Gaulle and the Fifth Republic

Question 10

Explain what factors allowed Germany to emerge from military defeat, bankruptcy, and division after 1945 to become the most powerful economic and political force in Europe today.

Question 11

What have been the most important developments in Canada since 1945? In what ways has national unity been challenged from within? What role has ideas about excessive United States influence in Canada played in shaping that nation's foreign and domestic policies?

Question 12

Focusing on the example of Cuba, how have Marxist leaders and movements fared in Latin America since 1960? To what degree have nationalism and Marxism been blended in that nation?

Question 13

Is the growth of "American" pop culture the most important change in Western society since the 1930s? Why or why not? How does its influence compare with that of the "welfare state" during this period? What evidence causes you to think as you do?

Question 14

Why and when did the New Deal basis of United States politics lose its centrality? How and when did it happen? Was this loss related to changes in civil rights policies? Why or why not?

Question 15

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Slobodan Milosoviæ

Question 16

What are the challenges presented by international terrorism since 1970? In a discussion of three or four specific events or movements, what are some of the commonalities and some of the differences between them?

Question 17

Describe what factors led to the formation of the European Union (EU). Do you think that the EU is a viable political and economic construct? Why or why not?

Question 18

How have Western societies struggled to deal with the complex issues around immigration and guest workers? How have cultural differences fueled tensions and complicated new social policies? Give examples.

Question 19

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Angela Merkel

Question 20

"On balance, the 1960s was the most significant decade in recent American history." Do you agree or disagree? Explain.

Question 21

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Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Washington

Question 22

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war in Iraq

Question 23

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Treaty of Rome/European Economic Community (EEC)

Question 24

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Treaty on European Union, 1994

Question 25

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the euro

Question 26

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Tony Blair

Question 27

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Pierre Trudeau

Question 28

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Richard Nixon and the "southern strategy"

Question 29

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Lyndon B. Johnson and the War on Poverty.

Question 30

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Latin America debt crisis

Question 31

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"the white backlash"

Question 32

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Marshal Tito and Yugoslavia

Question 33

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the Reagan Revolution

Question 34

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Margaret Thatcher, the "Iron Lady," and Thatcherism

Question 35

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ethnic cleansing

Question 36

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Jimmy Carter and hostages in Iran

Question 37

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Watergate

Question 38

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Serbia, Bosnia, Kosovo

Question 39

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the war on terrorism and the Department of Homeland Security

Question 40

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the welfare state

Question 41

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permissive society

Question 42

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Postmodernism

Question 43

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the Irish Republican Army

Question 44

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baby boom

Question 45

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Juan and Eva Perón

Question 46

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the birth control pill

Question 47

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Organization of American States (OAS)

Question 48

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September 11, 2001 and the World Trade Center, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda

Question 49

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"the consumer society

Question 50

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J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb

Question 51

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existentialism

Question 52

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Fidel Castro

Question 53

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Vincente Fox

Question 54

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Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

Question 55

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Green parties and Chernobyl

Question 56

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Falkland Islands

Question 57

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personal computer and the Internet

Question 58

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Abstract Expressionism

Question 59

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women's liberation movement

Question 60

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Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

Question 61

The new prime minister of Great Britain immediately after World War II, Clement Attlee,

A) included two Communist members in his cabinet.
B) was a leftist revolutionary, whom the king removed two months after he took office.
C) favored abolition of all private banks in the country.
D) established the welfare state in Britain.
E) blocked parliamentary consideration of a National Health Insurance Act.

Question 62

Who is the longest-serving elected head of state in the European Union?

A) de Gaulle
B) Thatcher
C) Kohl
D) Sarkozy
E) Merkel

Question 63

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
French Secularism

Question 64

Charles De Gaulle did NOT

A) see France increase its gross domestic product while he was in office.
B) create the Fifth Republic.
C) increase the power of the office of president.
D) come to power because of the Algerian crisis.
E) endeavor to make France a major nuclear power.

Question 65

What did Thatcherism do?

A) It increased the benefits of the welfare state.
B) It restricted union power.
C) It increased the power of the labor unions.
D) It resulted in high unemployment in southern England.
E) It ended capitalism in Britain.

Question 66

The policy known as Ostpolitik

A) almost led to East German absorption of West Germany.
B) was designed by Charles De Gaulle.
C) was designed by Conrad Adenauer.
D) increased cultural, personal, and economic relations between West and East Germany.
E) was an attempt by East Germany to unite with West Germany.

Question 67

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"...to Americanize the world"

Question 68

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Poststructuralism or deconstruction

Question 69

The founding of the European Economic Community (EEC)

A) initially received strong encouragement from the Soviet Union, which played a leading role until the Cold War erupted.
B) established a customs union for its six member states.
C) initially embraced the Benelux countries, along with Sweden and Czechoslovakia.
D) was initially designed with the hope it would stabilize employment for the working classes, but this hope was soon shown to be impossible.
E) was publicly opposed by the United States and the Soviet Union, both of whom threatened military action.

Question 70

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"great Satan"

Question 71

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guest workers

Question 72

Which country in 2004 prohibited female students from wearing the hijab (headscarf) to school?

A) United States
B) Iraq
C) Sweden
D) France
E) Great Britain

Question 73

The European Community was primarily

A) an economic union.
B) a political union.
C) a military alliance.
D) restricted to the nations of southern and eastern Europe.
E) a passing phenomena, which disappeared after the ending of the Cold War.

Question 74

The European Union attempted to establish common foreign policy goals among its disparate members through the

A) Lisbon Treaty.
B) Atlantic Treaty.
C) Treaty on European Union.
D) Treaty of Rome
E) Committee on Unity.

Question 75

What was true of Helmut Kohl?

A) He oversaw the reunification of Germany, with all its related economic concerns.
B) He was a Christian Socialist.
C) He was responsible for the collapse of the German economy.
D) He refused to raise taxes.
E) He was reelected in 1998.

Question 76

Which country took the lead in the sexual revolution of the 1960s?

A) France
B) United States
C) Britain
D) Spain
E) Sweden

Question 77

What did the disintegration of post-World War II Yugoslavia result in?

A) the dictatorship of Marshal Tito
B) a union of Slovenia and Croatia
C) the peaceful merger of Serbia and Croatia
D) the triumph of Bosnia over Serbia
E) the Serbian policy of "ethnic cleansing"

Question 78

The term "ethnic cleansing" is associated with the tragedy in which occurred in

A) the Czech Republic, with the breakup of Czechoslovakia.
B) Bosnia, during the breakup of Yugoslavia.
C) Poland, with the overthrow of the Communist government by Solidarity.
D) the Ukraine, with the atomic explosion at Chernobyl.
E) East Germany, with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Question 79

Which post-World War II European countries have elected female heads of state?

A) Germany and France
B) France and Britain
C) Britain and Germany
D) Belgium and Britain
E) France and the Netherlands

Question 80

Under the leadership of Konrad Adenauer

A) West Germany refused to reconcile with its ancient enemy, France.
B) West Germany experienced an incredible economic collapse in the decade after 1945.
C) West Germany rebuilt its economy and increased growth.
D) East and West Germany were reunited.
E) the Berlin Wall was torn down.