Deck 28: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

Question 1

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Angela Merkel and the "Euro"

Answer 1

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Question 2

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France's nuclear bomb

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Question 3

Why and when did the New Deal basis of United States politics lose its centrality? How and when did it happen? Was this loss related to changes in civil rights policies? Why or why not?

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

How have the growth of permissiveness,changes in the status of women,and the emergence of modern terrorism influenced Western society during the last thirty years? Which has had the deepest impact,and why?

Question 5

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1968 student protests

Question 6

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Euro-Zone countries

Question 7

What have been the most important developments in Canada since 1945? In what ways has national unity been challenged from within? What role has ideas about excessive United States influence in Canada played in shaping that nation's foreign and domestic policies?

Question 8

How well did France handle the changes brought by the results of World War II and the loss of its colonial empire? Were the ideas of Charles de Gaulle realistic or nostalgic? Why?

Question 9

Describe what factors led to the formation of the European Union (EU).Do you think that the EU is a viable political and economic construct? Why or why not?

Question 10

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Helmut Kohl and German reunification

Question 11

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Charles de Gaulle and the Fifth French Republic

Question 12

What are the challenges presented by international terrorism since 1970? In a discussion of three or four specific events or movements,what are some of the commonalities and some of the differences between them?

Question 13

Explain what factors allowed Germany to emerge from military defeat,bankruptcy,and division after 1945 to become the most powerful economic and political force in Europe today.

Question 14

Have the major social and economic changes in Latin American societies made them more or less alike? Is it still accurate to treat them individually,or is it now more appropriate to analyze them regionally? Why or why not,in the light of developments since 1945?

Question 15

Compare and contrast the careers and leadership styles of Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel.Why do you think it was through the ranks of two of Europe's conservative and not left-leaning parties that women could first rise to high national office?

Question 16

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Konrad Adenauer

Question 17

Is the growth of "American" pop culture the most important change in Western society since the 1930s? Why or why not? How does its influence compare with that of the "welfare state" during this period? What evidence causes you to think as you do?

Question 18

"On balance,the 1960s was the most significant decade in recent American history." Discuss,pro and con.

Question 19

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Willi Brandt and Ostpolitik

Question 20

How have Marxist leaders and movements fared in Latin America since 1960? In particular,examine the post-1960 history of Cuba.To what degree have nationalism and Marxism been blended in that nation?

Question 21

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Treaty of Rome/European Economic Community (EEC)

Question 22

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Treaty on European Union,1994

Question 23

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Marshal Tito and Yugoslavia

Question 24

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Clement Attlee,the Labour Party,and the welfare state

Question 25

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Margaret Thatcher,the "Iron Lady," and Thatcherism

Question 26

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the war on terrorism and the Department of Homeland Security

Question 27

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Latin America debt crisis

Question 28

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Richard Nixon and the "southern strategy"

Question 29

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Tony Blair

Question 30

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Martin Luther King and the March on Washington

Question 31

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).B.Johnson and the War on Poverty.

Question 32

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Slobodan Milosevic and "ethnic cleansing"

Question 33

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war in Iraq and Afghanistan

Question 34

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"the white backlash"

Question 35

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the Reagan Revolution

Question 36

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the euro

Question 37

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Serbia,Bosnia,Kosovo

Question 38

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Pierre Trudeau

Question 39

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Jimmy Carter and hostages in Iran

Question 40

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Watergate

Question 41

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"the pill"

Question 42

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Vincente Fox

Question 43

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1968 student massacre in Tlatelolco Square

Question 44

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1972 Munich Olympic Games,the Irish Republican Army,Pan Am flight 103,Lockerbie,Scotland

Question 45

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Fidel Castro,Bay of Pigs,and the Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 46

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Postmodernism,Poststructuralism or deconstruction

Question 47

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Organization of American States (OAS)

Question 48

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Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique

Question 49

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"the consumer society"

Question 50

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personal computer and the Internet

Question 51

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Falkland Islands

Question 52

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Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)

Question 53

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"the permissive society"

Question 54

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existentialism,Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre

Question 55

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September 11,2001 and the World Trade Center,Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda

Question 56

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Abstract Expressionism and Jackson Pollack

Question 57

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J.Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb

Question 58

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Juan and Eva Perón

Question 59

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Green parties and Chernobyl

Question 60

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women's liberation movement

Question 61

Which post-World War II European countries have elected female heads of state?

A)Germany and France
B)France and Britain
C)Britain and Germany
D)Belgium and Britain
E)France and the Netherlands

Question 62

The term "ethnic cleansing" is associated with the tragedy in which occurred in

A)the Czech Republic,with the breakup of Czechoslovakia.
B)Bosnia,during the breakup of Yugoslavia.
C)Poland,with the overthrow of the Communist government by Solidarity.
D)the Ukraine,with the atomic explosion at Chernobyl.
E)East Germany,with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Question 63

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).E.F.Schumacher's Small is Beautiful

Question 64

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
Pope John Paul II

Question 65

The founding of the European Economic Community (EEC)

A)initially received strong encouragement from the Soviet Union,which played a leading role until the Cold War erupted.
B)established a customs union for its six member states.
C)initially embraced the Benelux countries,along with Sweden and Czechoslovakia.
D)was initially designed with the hope it would stabilize employment for the working classes,but this hope was soon shown to be impossible.
E)was publicly opposed by the United States and the Soviet Union,both of whom threatened military action.

Question 66

What did Thatcherism do?

A)It increased the benefits of the welfare state.
B)It restricted union power.
C)It increased the power of the labor unions.
D)It resulted in high unemployment in southern England.
E)It ended capitalism in Britain.

Question 67

The policy known as Ostpolitik

A)almost led to East German absorption of West Germany.
B)was designed by Charles De Gaulle.
C)was designed by Conrad Adenauer.
D)increased cultural,personal,and economic relations between West and East Germany.
E)was an attempt by East Germany to unite with West Germany.

Question 68

Which European event/phenomenon did not occur between 1980 and 2010?

A)the reunification of Germany
B)the introduction of the common European currency,the Euro
C)Eastern European countries join the European Union for the first time
D)Margaret Thatcher dominates British politics
E)Charles de Gaulle rules in France

Question 69

What did the disintegration of post-World War II Yugoslavia result in?

A)the dictatorship of Marshal Tito
B)a union of Slovenia and Croatia
C)the peaceful merger of Serbia and Croatia
D)the triumph of Bosnia over Serbia
E)the Serbian policy of "ethnic cleansing"

Question 70

Which Western European country is not a member of the European Union?

A)Germany
B)Britain
C)Belgium
D)the Netherlands
E)Switzerland

Question 71

Charles De Gaulle did not

A)see France increase its gross domestic product during his period of government.
B)create the Fifth Republic.
C)increase the power of the office of president.
D)come to power because of the Algerian crisis.
E)endeavor to make France a major nuclear power.

Question 72

Which of the following was not a problem faced by the government of Helmut Kohl?

A)the armed hostility of France
B)high levels of unemployment and social discontent in the eastern part of Germany
C)the collapsed East German economy
D)runaway budget deficits
E)higher taxes and a disgruntled populace

Question 73

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
fundamentalism

Question 74

The European Community was primarily

A)an economic union.
B)a political union.
C)a military alliance.
D)restricted to the nations of southern and eastern Europe.
E)a passing phenomena,which disappeared after the ending of the Cold War.

Question 75

Which Eastern European country is not a member of the European Union?

A)Russia
B)Hungary
C)Poland
D)the Czech Republic
E)Bulgaria

Question 76

As a result of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal,all of the following became part of a new pattern of American development except

A)a significant increase in the authority and importance of the national government.
B)a growing importance of organized labor in the economics and politics of the nation.
C)a wholehearted commitment to all aspects of the communist welfare state.
D)an awareness of the problems faced by America's minorities.
E)an increased feeling of optimism among the American people.

Question 77

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
French Secularism

Question 78

Instructions: Identify the following term(s).
"...to Americanize the world"

Question 79

Under the leadership of Konrad Adenauer

A)West Germany refused to reconcile with its ancient enemy,France.
B)West Germany experienced an incredible economic collapse in the decade after 1945.
C)West Germany was led by a center-right non-socialist government.
D)East and West Germany were reunited.
E)the Berlin Wall was torn down.

Question 80

The new prime minister of Great Britain immediately after World War II,Clement Attlee,

A)included two Communist members in his cabinet.
B)was a leftist revolutionary,whom the king removed two months after he took office.
C)favored abolition of all private banks in the country.
D)established the welfare state in Britain.
E)blocked parliamentary consideration of a National Health Insurance Act.