Deck 27: Theater of the Absurd: The Postwar World

Question 1

The Marshall Plan was instituted in ______.

Answer 1

1947

Question 2

The Marshall Plan extended credit to Eastern Europe.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Who wrote The Stranger (1942)?

A) Jean-Paul Sartre
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Albert Camus
D) Samuel Beckett

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which of the three stages of the Cold War was the most hostile?.

Question 5

The era of Détente was between 1947 to 1962.

Question 6

The United States created ________ to protect Western Europe.

Question 7

The era in which Europe gave up most of its overseas territories is known as _____________.

Question 8

Independence for colonies from Europe translated into economic self-sufficiency.

Question 9

To keep an eye on Soviet attempts to spread influence, the United States developed

A) the UN.
B) NATO.
C) the CIA.
D) NASA.

Question 10

Central governments funded by heavy taxation, providing all basic social services are known as ________.

Question 11

The British case for social services was laid out in the ______________.

Question 12

Beveridge argued that the purpose of the state is to remove__________.

Question 13

Konrad Adenaur led the German

A) Conservative Party.
B) Christian Democratic Union.
C) Socialist party.
D) Liberal Party.

Question 14

In the late 1960s Europe's population continued to grow.

Question 15

Decolonization began because imperial nations

A) wanted freedom and opportunity for their colonies.
B) were broke from the war and Depression.
C) saw the benefits of self-determination for the world.
D) were secretly plotting against the spread of Communism.

Question 16

Which of the following is not a reason for the development of the consumer economy?

A) the development of the welfare state
B) strong postwar economies
C) weak postwar economies
D) the development of consumer credit

Question 17

In 1967 Israel launched the _____________.

Question 18

Prague Spring was in 1978.

Question 19

The movement for women's equality in the 1960s and 1970s was known as_________.