Deck 28: Cold War and a New Western World, 1945-1965

Question 1

Discuss the major social changes affecting the status, expectations, and ambitions of women that occurred in Western society form 1945 to 1970.

Answer 1

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Question 2

Talk about:
mutual deterence

Answer 2

Answers may vary.

Question 3

Talk about:
NATO and COMECON

Answer 3

Answers may vary.

Question 4

Talk about:
denazification

Question 5

Talk about:
the superpowers

Question 6

How did the policies of the United States affect Western Europe in the period from 1945 and 1965?

Question 7

Talk about:
Truman Doctrine

Question 8

Talk about:
Marshall Plan

Question 9

What attitudes and actions sparked the Cold War? Was one of the superpowers more responsible for its start than the other? Why or why not?

Question 10

Talk about:
Berlin blockade and Berlin Air Life

Question 11

Compare and contrast the political, social, and economic histories of Eastern Europe and Western Europe in the postwar decades. What factors account for the differences?

Question 12

Talk about:
Warsaw Pact

Question 13

In what ways were Khrushchev's policies a departure from those of Stalin?

Question 14

Talk about:
containment

Question 15

What were the major political developments in the history of the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1970? How did Soviet policies affect the history of Eastern Europe?

Question 16

Discuss the events that divided the world into two heavily armed camps capable of obliterating one another with nuclear weapons carried by intercontinental missile systems.

Question 17

On balance, did the decade of the 1960s constitute a constructive challenge to the institutions of European society, a destructive one, or both? Provide specific examples to defend your position.

Question 18

How and why did the Cold War in Europe differ from the Cold War in Asia?

Question 19

Talk about:
Korean War

Question 20

What were the major developments in domestic politics in Western Europe, and how were they expressed in France, West Germany, and Great Britain? What efforts toward unity were made by Western European states?

Question 21

Talk about:
apartheid

Question 22

Talk about:
CENTO and SEATO

Question 23

Talk about:
Vietnam War

Question 24

Talk about:
Ho Chi Minh

Question 25

Talk about:
African National Congress

Question 26

Talk about:
PLO, al-Fatah, and Yasir Arafat

Question 27

Talk about:
massive retaliation

Question 28

Talk about:
Nikita Khrushchev

Question 29

Talk about:
rapprochement

Question 30

Talk about:
uhuru

Question 31

Talk about:
Fidel Castro

Question 32

Talk about:
Cuban Missile Crisis and the Bay of Pigs

Question 33

Talk about:
Berlin Wall

Question 34

Talk about:
Mahatma Gandhi and an "orgy of blood"

Question 35

Talk about:
"missile gap"

Question 36

Talk about:
decolonization

Question 37

Talk about:
Sputnik I

Question 38

Talk about:
Mao Zedong

Question 39

Talk about:
Indian National Congress

Question 40

Talk about:
Six-Day War

Question 41

Talk about:
the consumer society

Question 42

Talk about:
Simone de Beauvoir

Question 43

Talk about:
family allowances

Question 44

Talk about:
nationalization

Question 45

Talk about:
Hungarian uprising

Question 46

Talk about:
Great Leap Forward

Question 47

Talk about:
women's liberation movement

Question 48

Talk about:
European Coal and Steel Community

Question 49

Talk about:
the birth-control pill

Question 50

Talk about:
socialized medicine

Question 51

Talk about:
social security

Question 52

Talk about:
the Great Society

Question 53

Talk about:
Christian Democratic parties

Question 54

Talk about:
Charles de Gaulle's Fifth Republic

Question 55

Talk about:
West Germany's "economic miracle" and guest workers

Question 56

Talk about:
Great Britain's welfare state

Question 57

Talk about:
EEC/Common Market

Question 58

Talk about:
Martin Luther King and "white backlash"

Question 59

Talk about:
Konrad Adenauer

Question 60

Talk about:
Stalinization and de-Stalinization

Question 61

The belief that Communist aggression fed off of economic turmoil was instrumental in the formulation of

A) the Domino Theory.
B) the Marshall Plan.
C) COMECON.
D) the doctrine of neo-capitalism.
E) the Long Telegram.

Question 62

Talk about:
Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot

Question 63

Talk about:
existentialism and Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus

Question 64

The Cold War policy adopted in the mid-1950s by the Eisenhower administration was

A) containment.
B) détente.
C) MAD (mutually assured destruction).
D) massive retaliation.
E) all of the above.

Question 65

The first area of conflict in the unfolding of the Cold War was

A) Scandinavia.
B) Western Europe.
C) North Africa.
D) Eastern Europe.
E) East Asia.

Question 66

Talk about:
Pope John XXIII

Question 67

Talk about:
Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, and Federico Fellini

Question 68

A key factor contributing to the development of the Cold War in Eastern Europe was

A) the withdrawal of victorious Russian armies from lands conquered during the campaign against Nazism.
B) raids by American troops pursuing German Nazi war criminals into areas of the former Third Reich under Russian control.
C) Stalin's desire to establish pro-Soviet governments in the countries of Eastern Europe to serve as a buffer zone against possible western attacks on the Soviet Union.
D) the domination of Austrian and Italian politics by popular pro-Communist parties.
E) the threat to continued instability by the rise of neo-fascist parties.

Question 69

The founding members of NATO included all of the following except

A) Canada.
B) Iceland.
C) Luxmbourg.
D) Albania.
E) Norway.

Question 70

The Communist military response to the formation of NATO was the

A) Moscow Alliance.
B) Warsaw Pact.
C) Eastern European Community.
D) Stalin Plan.
E) European Economic Community.

Question 71

Despite World War II's devastating impact on the countries, cities, peoples, and cultures of Europe, Europe's industrial and agricultural output was 30 percent higher than prewar levels by

A) 1947.
B) 1950.
C) 1953.
D) 1956.
E) 1960.

Question 72

Talk about:
Elvis Presley and the Beatles

Question 73

Talk about:
Jackson Pollock and Abstract Expressionism

Question 74

The Truman Doctrine was a consequence of Truman's alarm over

A) a civil war in Yugoslavia.
B) the weakness of the British in the eastern Mediterranean.
C) Soviet aggression in Czechoslovakia.
D) the failure of the Marshall Plan.
E) the slow pace of denazification in Germany.

Question 75

At the close of World War II, the European tradition of power politics was inherited by

A) China and the Soviet Union.
B) independent peoples everywhere.
C) the Soviet Union and the United States.
D) the United States alone.
E) the Soviet Union alone.

Question 76

The Warsaw Pact included all of the following nations except

A) Poland.
B) Bulgaria.
C) Yugoslavia.
D) Hungary.
E) Czechoslovakia.

Question 77

Talk about:
Andy Warhol and Pop Art

Question 78

The Truman Doctrine did all of the following except

A) condemn the victory of the Communists in the Chinese civil war.
B) call for $400 million in aid for nations threatened by aggression
C) assist in the defense of Greece and Turkey.
D) express America's fear of Communist expansion in Europe.
E) announce the United States' intention to support "free peoples" throughout the world.

Question 79

An overall effect of the Korean War on the Cold War was

A) the Soviet Union's domination over all of Southeast Asia.
B) the end of American and Soviet involvement in Asian political affairs.
C) the reinforcement of the American determination to "contain" Soviet power.
D) a decrease in American defense spending since the capacity of the West to win the conflict outright on the battlefield demonstrated the superiority of modern weapons systems and no need to develop new war machines.
E) the continued willingness to use limited nuclear weapons in local wars.

Question 80

Truman and his Western European allies responded to Stalin's blockade of Berlin in 1948 by

A) building the Berlin Wall.
B) airlifting supplies into Berlin.
C) bombing Moscow.
D) sending a UN force to reopen the access routes.
E) threatening nuclear war.