Deck 12: The Age of European Expansion

Question 1

Which of the following countries did not experience a major political crisis in 1956?

A) Egypt
B) Cuba
C) Czechoslovakia
D) Hungary

Answer 1

Czechoslovakia

Question 2

Carol Reed's film The Third Man, which carried an indictment of the black market economy in postwar Europe, was set in:

A) London
B) Paris
C) Berlin
D) Vienna

Answer 2

Vienna

Question 3

Of the following countries, which was a member of the European Economic Community in 1957?

A) Italy
B) Spain
C) Portugal
D) the Republic of Ireland

Answer 3

Italy

Question 4

Which of the following was the dominant political party in West Germany in the postwar period?

A) the Social Democratic Party
B) the Christian Democratic Union
C) the Socialist Party
D) the Communist Party

Question 5

Which Western European nation most attempted to assert its influence independent of NATO in the postwar period?

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

Question 6

What former US World War II hero was removed from his command by President Truman during the Korean War?

A) Dwight Eisenhower
B) Douglas MacArthur
C) George Patton
D) Omar Bradley

Question 7

Which two countries decided to intervene in Egypt when Nasser attempted to nationalize the Suez Canal?

A) Britain
B) the United States
C) Italy
D) France

Question 8

Which Soviet satellite state experienced a revolt that had to be crushed by Soviet tanks in 1956?

A) Poland
B) Czechoslovakia
C) East Germany
D) Hungary

Question 9

In what year did Stalin die?

A) 1949
B) 1951
C) 1953
D) 1955

Question 10

In what Communist country in Eastern Europe did the Catholic Church receive the largest degree of accommodation?

A) Poland
B) Romania
C) East Germany
D) Hungary

Question 11

The "Thaw" of the late 1950s and early 1960s refers to:

A) better relations between the United States and the Soviet Union
B) greater freedom given to writers and artists in the Soviet Union
C) better relations between West and East Germany
D) a global warming trend during that period

Question 12

Which of the following books was not written by Alexander Solzhenitsyn?

A) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
B) Cancer Ward
C) The First Circle
D) Doctor Zhivago

Question 13

Forced from power in Brazil in 1945, this man was returned to power as president in 1951:

A) Juan Perón
B) Jacopo Arbenz
C) Camilo Torres
D) Getúlio Vargas

Question 14

What were the only two South American countries that did not experience significant labor issues in the 1950s?

A) Uruguay and Brazil
B) Brazil and Paraguay
C) Uruguay and Paraguay
D) Paraguay and Chile

Question 15

Camilo Torres was a radical priest who advocated social, political, and economic change in:

A) Colombia
B) Guatemala
C) Argentina
D) Cuba

Question 16

Place the following events in chronological order:

A) the end of the Korean War
B) US forces sent into Lebanon
C) the Suez Crisis
D) Juan Perón's excommunication by the pope

Question 17

What two countries, surprisingly, had manufacturing productivity about 200 per cent above their 1937 levels by 1956?

Question 18

What does the acronym NATO stand for?

Question 19

What was the name of the Cuban dictator who was overthrown by Fidel Castro during the Cuban Revolution?

Question 20

Who did the Soviets place in power in Hungary after crushing the revolt there in 1956?

Question 21

What was the main difference between the consumer items that were available in the United States and Western Europe and those available in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe?

Question 22

Name the Russian author who was offered the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958.

Question 23

Discuss the origins of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. What were some of the implications of the Cold War for the history of the postwar world?

Question 24

What was the significance of Stalin's death for the Soviet Union and the Cold War in the 1950s? To what extent did Khrushchev depart from Stalinism?