Deck 14: The Scientific Revolution and Changes in Thought and Society in the Seventeenth Century

Question 1

The Western European country that enjoyed the highest level of affluence in the 1960s was:

A) West Germany
B) Italy
C) France
D) United Kingdom

Answer 1

West Germany

Question 2

The Stasi was the name of the secret police organization in:

A) West Germany
B) East Germany
C) the Soviet Union
D) Poland

Answer 2

East Germany

Question 3

Besides Yugoslavia, what other Communist country during the Cold War successfully repressed the nationalist aspirations of peoples who had been artificially united in a single country?

A) Romania
B) Bulgaria
C) Czechoslovakia
D) Hungary

Answer 3

Czechoslovakia

Question 4

Place the following steps toward European integration in their chronological order.

A) Common Market
B) Maastricht Treaty
C) Single Europe Act
D) European Coal and Steel Community

Question 5

The country that was most reluctant to support European union was:

A) Britain
B) West Germany
C) France
D) Italy

Question 6

With what South American country did Britain go to war in 1982 over the Falkland Islands?

A) Brazil
B) Chile
C) Venezuela
D) Argentina

Question 7

In the 1970s and 1980s the strictest laws against expression of Nazi ideas existed in:

A) Britain
B) France
C) West Germany
D) Italy

Question 8

The major economic goal of the Communist regime of the People's Republic of China after it was officially established in 1949 was:

A) collectivization of agriculture
B) industrialization
C) increase in foreign trade
D) eradication of poverty

Question 9

Place these initiatives of Mao Zedong in their correct chronological order.

A) Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
B) Five-Year Plan
C) Great Leap Forward
D) Hundred Flowers Campaign

Question 10

Deng Xiaoping endured public disgrace and temporarily lost power during:

A) the Hundred Flowers Campaign
B) the Great Leap Forward
C) the Gang of Four trial
D) the Cultural Revolution

Question 11

The first steps toward negotiating a truce in the Cold War came during the presidency of:

A) Ronald Reagan
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Richard Nixon
D) Gerald Ford

Question 12

Which of the following was not a major factor in Jimmy Carter's unsuccessful bid for reelection in the United States in 1980?

A) his negotiations with Brezhnev for a new arms reduction treaty
B) the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
C) the Iranian Revolution of 1979
D) his delay at increasing the military budget significantly

Question 13

The first Soviet leader to come of age after World War II was:

A) Mikhail Gorbachev
B) Konstantin Chernenko
C) Yuri Andropov
D) Leonid Brezhnev

Question 14

The Russian term glasnost means:

A) reform
B) revolution
C) peace
D) openness

Question 15

In 1987 Ronald Reagan called on Mikhail Gorbachev to:

A) destroy all of his nuclear weapons
B) tear down the Berlin Wall
C) end communism in the Soviet Union
D) withdraw from Afghanistan

Question 16

In 1987 Reagan's administration became embroiled in a scandal over a scheme to import arms in order to overthrow the government of:

A) Guatemala
B) El Salvador
C) Nicaragua
D) Panama

Question 17

What country was the second leading economic power in the Communist bloc during the 1960s and 1970s, besides the Soviet Union?

Question 18

What West European leader had the closest relationship with the United States in the 1980s?

Question 19

What was the name of the economic initiative introduced by Mao Zedong following the end of the Five-Year Plan in 1957?

Question 20

What measures characterized Deng Xiaping's attempt to introduce economic reform into the countryside in China during the 1980s?

Question 21

What does the acronym SALT stand for?

Question 22

A turning point in the Cold War might have come in 1981 when Brezhnev refrained from invading what rebellious country within the Soviet bloc?

Question 23

Discuss the changes that occurred in the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev. Did he help to bring about the downfall of the Soviet Union? What happened to Stalinism under Khrushchev and Gorbachev?

Question 24

What was Mao Zedong's legacy for Chinese history? Does his rule bear comparison with that of Stalin in the Soviet Union? Was Deng Xiaoping Khrushchev to China's Stalin or Gorbachev to China's Brezhnev?