Deck 29: Protest and Stagnation: the Western World, 1965-1985

Question 1

Did the ongoing processes of globalization during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s do more to benefit the interests of the few or of the many?

Answer 1

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Question 2

Talk about:
marijuana

Answer 2

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Question 3

Talk about:
Antiwar protests and Kent State

Answer 3

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Question 4

Talk about:
University of Nanterre, 1968

Question 5

Talk about:
the birth control pill

Question 6

Talk about:
détente

Question 7

Is "Americanization" the proper word to use when describing the popular culture of the Western world since World War II? Why and/or why not? Be specific.

Question 8

What are the characteristics of Postmodernism? Would it be accurate to say that all, or at least most, of the popular culture of this period was Postmodern?

Question 9

Compare and contrast the American war in Vietnam and the Soviet Union's conflict in Afghanistan. What does each reveal about the relationship between the superpowers and the limits of their power?

Question 10

What are the ideas associated with Marshall McLuhan's 1960s concept of the "global village"? Has he been an accurate forecaster of events from the vantage point of the early twenty-first century?

Question 11

Talk about:
Timothy Leary and LSD

Question 12

What major economic problems and consequences plagued the West during the 1970s?

Question 13

Between 1965 and 1985, did new technologies and new scientific discoveries do more to benefit or to harm the planet and its inhabitants?

Question 14

In what ways does the feminist movement between 1965 and 1985 resemble the feminist movement of the nineteenth century? How did the two differ in their goals and methods?

Question 15

What domestic social, political, and economic factors impacted the development of Western civilization between 1965 and 1985? What developments were the result of the West's interactions with the rest of the world?

Question 16

Talk about:
feminism and Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique

Question 17

What causes mobilized the revolts of the 1960s and 1970s? How successful were protests at resolving the grievances of the participants?

Question 18

Talk about:
Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man

Question 19

Talk about:
Brezhnev Doctrine

Question 20

Talk about:
permissive society

Question 21

Talk about:
Hungary's János Kádár

Question 22

Talk about:
Margaret Thatcher (the "Iron Lady") and Thatcherism

Question 23

Talk about:
Watergate

Question 24

Talk about:
the Prague Spring

Question 25

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Ayatollah Khomeini and American hostages

Question 26

Talk about:
the Berlin Wall

Question 27

Talk about:
Richard Nixon's "southern strategy"

Question 28

Talk about:
Falklands Island and the Falklands War

Question 29

Talk about:
Canada's Pierre Trudeau and Brian Mulroney

Question 30

Talk about:
the European Community/EC

Question 31

Talk about:
the domino theory

Question 32

Talk about:
the Vietcong

Question 33

Talk about:
Second Vietnam War

Question 34

Talk about:
East Germany's Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker

Question 35

Talk about:
Jimmy Carter and stagflation

Question 36

Talk about:
Lech Walesa and Solidarity

Question 37

Talk about:
Italy's Eurocommunism

Question 38

Talk about:
France's François Mitterrand

Question 39

Talk about:
Willy Brandt and Ostpolitik

Question 40

Talk about:
the Reagan Revolution and "supply-side economics"

Question 41

Talk about:
Antiballistic Missile Treaty, 1972

Question 42

Talk about:
"magic realism" and Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude

Question 43

Talk about:
Green parties

Question 44

Talk about:
Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Question 45

Talk about:
Jacques Derrida and deconstruction

Question 46

Talk about:
Mao Zedong and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

Question 47

Talk about:
Helsinki Agreements, 1975

Question 48

Talk about:
Grace Hopper and COBOL

Question 49

Talk about:
Ferdinand de Saussure and structuralism

Question 50

Talk about:
the space race and Sputnik

Question 51

Talk about:
Allen Kaprow and "happenings"

Question 52

Talk about:
Nixon, Zedong and a "strategic relationship"

Question 53

Talk about:
the "four olds," "permanent revolution," and the Red Guards

Question 54

Talk about:
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)/"Star Wars"

Question 55

Talk about:
E.F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful

Question 56

Talk about:
Chernobyl, 1986

Question 57

Talk about:
the "evil empire"

Question 58

Talk about:
Olivier Messiaen and serialism

Question 59

Talk about:
Postmodernism

Question 60

Talk about:
"equivalence"

Question 61

The resignation of Antonín Novotný in Czechoslovakia was precipitated by

A) a mass protest in Prague.
B) his denunciation by the Soviets as an enemy of the Communist Party.
C) a writers' rebellion.
D) a coup by the Christian Democrats.
E) the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Red Army.

Question 62

In the 1960s, college and university students complained and demonstrated against all of the following except :

A) declining enrollments.
B) lack of a relevant educational experience.
C) crowded classrooms.
D) authoritarian administrators.
E) uncaring professors and instructors.

Question 63

The author of The Feminine Mystique and who was a founder of the National Organization of Women was

A) Rachel Carson.
B) Betty Ford.
C) Simone Beauvoir.
D) Kathleen Windsor.
E) Betty Friedan.

Question 64

Talk about:
"mass sports" and the World Cup

Question 65

Under the Brezhnev Doctrine

A) the Soviet Union promised to clean up its international reputation.
B) the Soviets attempted to roll back capitalism everywhere.
C) more political freedoms were granted at home.
D) the Eastern bloc countries were set free from Moscow's control.
E) the Soviets declared the right of intervention if a socialist state were threatened.

Question 66

In Czechoslovakia, the "Prague Spring"

A) permanently ended communism.
B) successfully established a long-lasting democratic government.
C) was brought to an abrupt end by the Red Army.
D) received support and sympathy from East Germany and Romania.
E) had the support of Mikhail Gorbachev.

Question 67

The nation that initially took the lead in the sexual revolution of the 1960s was

A) the United States.
B) France.
C) Italy.
D) Sweden.
E) the Soviet Union.

Question 68

Talk about:
Marshall McLuhan and the "global village"

Question 69

The song, "The Times They Are A-Changin'," was written by

A) the Beatles.
B) Elvis Presley.
C) Credence Clearwater Revival.
D) Bob Dylan.
E) Bob Marley.

Question 70

Student protests in Europe backfired to an extent as

A) some people detested what they saw as the lawlessness of the privileged.
B) too many people died during protests in 1968.
C) the students themselves began to have doubts.
D) the full police powers of the states of Europe were brought down upon the protesters.
E) their university funding was withdrawn.

Question 71

The Ohio National Guard killed four student protesters in 1970 at

A) the Ohio State University.
B) the University of Ohio.
C) Bowling Green State University.
D) the University of Toledo.
E) Kent State University.

Question 72

Playboy magazine

A) originally had no nudity.
B) originally had images but no text.
C) encouraged men to spice up their married sex lives.
D) encouraged men to find sexual satisfaction outside their marriages.
E) was banned the year it came out.

Question 73

Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man

A) argued that productive political change could come only from the eiltes.
B) posited that capitalism was responsible for heightening the discontent of the masses.
C) theorized that unindoctrinated students could liberate the masses from their elite oppressors.
D) sought to quell student rebellions by proposing a revised curriculum that emphasized practical, real-world knowledge.
E) inspired successful protests by German university students.

Question 74

The "permissive society" is characterized by all of the following except

A) sexual freedom.
B) experimentation with drugs.
C) decriminalization of homosexuality.
D) increasing rates of divorce.
E) declining rates of divorce.

Question 75

Talk about:
Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach

Question 76

Talk about:
"peace and love"

Question 77

Talk about:
punk rock and hip-hop

Question 78

During the 1960s the recreational drug of choice for most college and university students was

A) powder cocaine.
B) heroine.
C) crack.
D) LSD.
E) marijuana.

Question 79

The Solidarity movement in Poland

A) was temporarily crushed by General Lech Wa ³ê sa in 1981.
B) failed to gain massive support due to stiff opposition from the conservative Catholic church.
C) was formed by Wladyslaw Gomulka in 1956.
D) lacked cohesion and quickly disintegrated and disappeared in 1980.
E) was outlawed in 1981 and its leaders arrested.

Question 80

The East German leader Erich Honecker was most noted for

A) building the Berlin Wall in 1961.
B) establishing a virtual dictatorship by using the Stasi or secret police in the 1970s and 1980s.
C) urging the political unification of West and East Germany in the late 1980s.
D) leading an unsuccessful independence movement from the Soviet Union in 1953.
E) dismantling the Berlin Wall.