Deck 13: Absolutism and Political Revolution in the Seventeenth Century

Question 1

On a visit to the United States in 1960, Nikita Khrushchev traveled to Harlem to meet with:

A) John F
B) Martin Luther King Jr
C) Bob Dylan
D) Fidel Castro

Answer 1

Fidel Castro

Question 2

John F. Kennedy wrote his senior thesis at Harvard University on:

A) British appeasement policy before World War II
B) the origins of World War I
C) the Great Depression
D) the Russian Revolution

Answer 2

British appeasement policy before World War II

Question 3

The Cuban missile crisis in 1962 was intertwined with US concerns at the time over potential Soviet action in:

A) Budapest
B) Berlin
C) Prague
D) Warsaw

Answer 3

Berlin

Question 4

Rosa Parks refused to relinquish her seat at the front of a bus to move to the "colored" section on her way home from work one evening in the city of:

A) Birmingham
B) Greensboro
C) Montgomery
D) Atlanta

Question 5

The leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was:

A) Martin Luther King Jr
B) Stokely Carmichael
C) Malcolm X
D) Abbie Hoffman

Question 6

Which of the following statements is least true for women in the Soviet Union during the 1960s?

A) They received equal assistance from men in performing domestic duties such as cooking, cleaning, and washing clothes
B) They had equal access to education and were not prevented from becoming doctors or entering other traditional male professions
C) They benefited from state-provided child care while they worked
D) They legally had equal rights with men

Question 7

The author of The Female Eunuch was:

A) Betty Friedan
B) Simone de Beauvoir
C) Margaret Sanger
D) Germaine Greer

Question 8

The song "Blowin' in the Wind" was written by:

A) Woody Guthrie
B) Pete Seeger
C) Bob Dylan
D) Peter, Paul, and Mary

Question 9

Who wrote the line, "try to realize it's all within yourself-no one else can make you change"?

A) George Harrison
B) John Lennon
C) Paul McCartney
D) Bob Dylan

Question 10

The North Vietnamese Tet Offensive was launched to coincide with the Vietnamese New Year in:

A) 1967
B) 1968
C) 1969
D) 1970

Question 11

In the 1960s the only country in the Soviet bloc whose leadership was on friendly terms with the Chinese Communist Party was:

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

Question 12

In 1968 Alexander Dub?ek attempted to introduce sweeping reforms in:

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

Question 13

Which of the following was not a participant in the presidential campaign in the United States in 1968?

A) Hubert Humphrey
B) Robert Kennedy
C) Lyndon Johnson
D) Richard Nixon

Question 14

The Ulster Defense Regiment was a _____________________ military organization:

A) Protestant
B) Catholic
C) British
D) nonpartisan

Question 15

The Zionist movement advocating a national homeland for the Jewish people originated:

A) after World War II
B) after World War I
C) in the early twentieth century
D) in the late nineteenth century

Question 16

In which Communist country in Eastern Europe did Jews occupy prominent positions in the government prior to a Soviet-ordered purge in the late 1960s?

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

Question 17

Who was the first man in space?

Question 18

What does the acronym NASA stand for?

Question 19

Who is considered the founder of the birth control movement in the United States?

Question 20

Before US intervention in Vietnam, what two countries had agreed to divide Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel?

Question 21

What was the name of the student leader whose attempted assassination in West Germany sparked a violent protest that directly challenged the government's authority?

Question 22

Who was the main spokesperson for the Protestant side in Northern Ireland in the 1960s who found it necessary to defend Northern Ireland's "Protestant way of life"?

Question 23

Why was 1968 such a turbulent year in both Europe and the United States? Were the issues that they faced the same? Did that year mark the culmination of previous discontents or was it the beginning of a new age?

Question 24

Why are the 1960s considered such an important decade in Western history? Can one decade really be singled out as more important than any other? If this was a truly significant period, did it begin in 1960 or was there a different turning point within that decade that signaled a critical turning point in the history of the West?