Deck 29: An Anxious Stability: The Age of the Cold War, 1949-1989

Question 1

Define the following terms: the Berlin Wall

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

Define the following terms: Konrad Adenauer

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

Define the following terms: Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

Define the following terms: Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 5

Define the following terms: Antonio Gramsci

Question 6

Define the following terms: welfare state

Question 7

Define the following terms: family wage

Question 8

Define the following terms: Willy Brandt

Question 9

Define the following terms: Albert Camus

Question 10

Define the following terms: Ostpolitik

Question 11

Define the following terms: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Question 12

Define the following terms: Herbert Marcuse

Question 13

Define the following terms: the "Days of May"

Question 14

Define the following terms: Americanism

Question 15

Define the following terms: Jean-Paul Sartre

Question 16

Define the following terms: the Greens

Question 17

Define the following terms: existentialism

Question 18

Define the following terms: Marshall Plan

Question 19

Define the following terms: Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Question 20

Define the following terms: Arthur Koestler

Question 21

Define the following terms: Helsinki Accords

Question 22

Define the following terms: Václav Havel

Question 23

Define the following terms: stagflation

Question 24

Define the following terms: COMECON

Question 25

Define the following terms: Prague Spring

Question 26

Define the following terms: Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Question 27

Define the following terms: post-totalitarianism

Question 28

Define the following terms: Dien Bien Phu

Question 29

Define the following terms: Warsaw Pact

Question 30

Define the following terms: British Commonwealth

Question 31

Define the following terms: European Union (EU)

Question 32

Define the following terms: de-Stalinization

Question 33

Define the following terms: European Economic Community (EEC)

Question 34

Define the following terms: Brezhnev Doctrine

Question 35

Define the following terms: Energy Crisis

Question 36

Define the following terms: Margaret Thatcher

Question 37

Define the following terms: Pope John Paul II

Question 38

Define the following terms: Eurocentrism

Question 39

Define the following terms: Suez Crisis

Question 40

Define the following terms: Nikita Khrushchev

Question 41

Describe the process of decolonization in the postwar period. What were the particular spheres and policies of the various colonial powers, and what complicating factors affected their decisions on independence? What problems affected the newly independent states?

Question 42

How was Cuba involved in cold war tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1960s? What split developed in the communist world, and why?

Question 43

What were some features of Marxist thought in the postwar period, and what positions were taken by some prominent anticommunist writers?

Question 44

Discuss the situation in postwar east-central Europe from 1945 to the mid-1970s. What was the relationship of the countries of the region to the Soviet Union? What internal tensions developed, and what changes did they produce?

Question 45

Summarize the disintegration of communist power in Hungary and Poland. What part did Pope John Paul II play in encouraging the Polish opposition? What was the role of Solidarity?

Question 46

How did the reunification of Germany come about, and what problems did it cause?

Question 47

Define the following terms: Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 48

Describe the Soviet political and economic situation under Brezhnev, the changes implemented or attempted by Gorbachev, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Question 49

Define the following terms: pop art

Question 50

What types of political and social tensions began to surface in western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s? In which country did unrest seem most acute?

Question 51

In 1914, Europe exercised hegemony over most of the world. In 1945, Europe lay in ruins under the shadow of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. Explain Europe's experience, both international and domestic, in the bipolar world of the second half of the twentieth century.

Question 52

Define the following terms: Solidarity

Question 53

Describe the prosperous mass culture of the West and of Americanism in the second half of the twentieth century, and explain how it was critiqued by existentialism, pop art, and Havel's book, The Power of the Powerless .

Question 54

Why did President de Gaulle and some other Europeans oppose the Common Market? What was the original rationale for some degree of European economic integration, what roles were played by Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman, and what were the implications of increasing economic unity for national sovereignty?

Question 55

Examine postwar France as an example of European traditions and institutions adapting to modern realities. Consider both domestic and foreign affairs.

Question 56

Define the following terms: Lech

Question 57

Discuss the Soviet bloc in the 1970s and 1980s. Explain the fall of communism in east-central Europe in 1989.

Question 58

Summarize the political development of West Germany under Adenauer and Brandt. What factors tended to make the Federal Republic a more stable regime than that of Weimar?

Question 59

Define the following terms: Lithuania

Question 60

Discuss the economic recovery of Europe following the war. What first stimulated it, and how did it vary from country to country? What were some characteristics of the welfare state? Describe European economic integration.

Question 61

Much of postwar European literature and philosophy reflected a mood of

A) new optimism.
B) appreciation of economic prosperity.
C) despair and anxiety.
D) serenity and relief.
E) going through the motions with nothing worth saying or doing.

Question 62

The Communist Party in France

A) was banned after the war.
B) had very little support within the country.
C) gained support through the 1940s.
D) took control of the government.
E) refused to become involved in coalitions.

Question 63

Which of the following was not a characteristic of Sweden's welfare?

A) Children's issues became a prime responsibility of the government.
B) Day care centers were private church controlled ventures.
C) Government became involved in situations involving sexuality.
D) Corporal punishment came under government control.
E) Society as a whole was responsible for the well-being of its children.

Question 64

After the Second World War, western European nations experienced all of the following except

A) dependence on U.S. leadership.
B) a consensus that government needed to promote economic growth and social welfare.
C) a renewal of intense and violent national rivalries.
D) rapid economic recovery and unprecedented prosperity.
E) having to exist in a bipolar Europe.

Question 65

In western Europe

A) government intervention in the economy generally grew but was not uniform throughout the region.
B) strong economic growth continued until the late 1960s.
C) industrial production had regained 1938 levels by the end of the 1940s and doubled by the late 1950s.
D) nations took advantage of the need to rebuild by adopting up-to-date methods and technologies.
E) All of these

Question 66

Welfare states of one type or another

A) existed everywhere in western Europe in the postwar period.
B) were formed in Sweden and Denmark but not in Britain.
C) developed only in Scandinavia, Britain, and the United States.
D) were formed in eastern Europe only.
E) prevented governments from providing welfare and maintaining a capitalistic economy at the same time.

Question 67

The Berlin Wall came down to euphoric crowds and world wide cheers. Symbolically it was more than a wall, Discuss this symbol in the time era of Chapter 29.

Question 68

All of the following measures were taken by the new Federal Republic of Germany except

A) outlawing Communist and Neo-Nazi parties.
B) strengthening the authority of the chancellor.
C) discouraging splinter parties.
D) increasing the power of the multiparty Bundestag.
E) emphasizing the need to compromise to rule all of Germany.

Question 69

Which of the following is related to pop art?

A) Imaginative renderings of familiar images
B) Return to classical landscape paintings
C) Term was coined in Harlem
D) Symbolized the world's acceptance of war and pain
E) Symbolized the enthusiasm for the new technology and science of post WW II

Question 70

Under the government of Konrad Adenauer, West Germany

A) was oriented toward the United States and the Atlantic bloc.
B) failed to achieve prosperity.
C) experienced serious political instability.
D) had close diplomatic and economic ties with East Germany.
E) refused to make a commitment to NATO.

Question 71

American culture in the postwar period was affected by

A) the continued dominance of American provincialism.
B) a rejection of foreign cultural influences.
C) the wartime migration to America of many European artists and intellectuals.
D) a profound inferiority complex.
E) concern about economic and political unrest in America.

Question 72

The Fifth Republic differed from the Fourth

A) in name only.
B) by having a stronger, popularly elected president.
C) in some economic policies only.
D) in having Charles de Gaulle in the government.
E) because it was elected by the Chamber of Deputies and not public vote.

Question 73

The Berlin Wall symbolized the

A) power of NATO.
B) power and long-term success of East Germany.
C) polarization of Europe after World War II.
D) end of World War II.
E) Stalin Era.

Question 74

The key to the immediate postwar revival of Europe was

A) the United Nations.
B) the Common Market.
C) COMECON.
D) the Marshall Plan.
E) the Warsaw Pact.

Question 75

What does the fall of communism reveal about the history of the West since the Renaissance?

Question 76

As the United States came to share in the leadership of Western culture, many perceived that

A) America offered a culture combining technology, value-free social science, and scientific management.
B) the old European way led to excessive theorizing, political extremism, and impasse.
C) Americanism meant "the end of ideology."
D) the American approach got things done by using experts.
E) All of these

Question 77

The popular postwar philosophy, existentialism

A) was led by Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus.
B) held that engagement, commitment, responsibility, and friendship are all possible and desirable in a world that is absurd.
C) split over the relevance of Marxism.
D) explored what it meant for humans to be adrift from their cultural guideposts without standards and values.
E) All of these

Question 78

In postwar western Europe, labor

A) had no share in economic decision making.
B) began demanding more benefits in the 1960s.
C) disrupted the European economy with incessant strikes.
D) was severely repressed in all states.
E) became part of a massive consumer society.

Question 79

Referring to the Chronology Chart in Chapter 29, which event was not a result of direct communist aggression or action?

A) Warsaw Pact
B) Cuban Missile Crisis
C) Suez Crisis
D) Hungarian reform movement crushed
E) Victory in Vietnam

Question 80

Under Willy Brandt, West Germany

A) cut off relations with communist countries.
B) repudiated ties with the United States.
C) adopted communism.
D) improved relations with East Germany and the rest of the Soviet bloc.
E) was refused membership to the United Nations.