Question 1

The Chinese population control program

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The Chinese population control program, known as the one-child policy, was effective in reducing the birth rate, often employed coercive measures, and has faced enforcement challenges, especially as the policy has evolved.

Question 2

Between the mid-1950s and the mid-1970s, the United States and the Soviets oscillated between dangerous confrontation and a marked lessening of tensions, or détente. Explain the background leading up to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the reasons for the subsequent lessening of tensions.

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Question 3

Why did détente give way to a new phase of the Cold War at the end of the 1970s and during the 1980s?

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Question 4

How did the United States become involved in Vietnam? What were the outcomes of U.S. involvement?

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Question 5

Trace the history of the nuclear arms race over the course of the twentieth century do you find most persuasive?

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Question 6

Explain the reasons for the end of a quarter century of western prosperity in 1974. Why did Keynesian economics, which had apparently been so effective during the boom years, no longer provide guidelines during the years of "stagflation"?

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Question 7

During the 1980s, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher rejected the welfare state and sought to transform their economies and societies with new policies. What were these policies? What were their benefits and drawbacks?

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Question 8

How did Deng Xiaoping seek to transform China's society and economy? What was the relationship between his reforms and the Democracy Movement? What was the outcome of the latter?

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Question 9

Deng believed that China, for all its economic advances, was unprepared for democracy. He though that it would only breed chaos and confusion, as it had during the Cultural Revolution, and that it would also interfere with the order and stability needed for economic growth and modernization. Do you agree or disagree with Deng's position? Why or why not?

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Question 10

Why did a new kind of arms race emerge between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the late 1950s?

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Question 11

What were the arguments made by critics of U.S. involvement in Vietnam?

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Question 12

What were the Nixon-Kissinger policies? How did they change relations between the U.S. and communist countries?

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Question 13

What were the causes for continued concern about the U.S. economy in the 1980s?

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Question 14

What obstacles did Europeans face in attempting political and economic union?

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Question 15

Describe what happened at Tiananmen Square in 1989. How did Deng and the Chinese Communist party explain the events?

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Question 16

How had the world changed since the Second World War? Identify and discuss the regions that had experienced the most change in the postwar period.

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Question 17

How did the changes that occurred in the world in the postwar period set the stage for the Cold War?

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Question 18

How was France's colonial empire in Indochina divided once they withdrew from the region?

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Question 19

How did Eisenhower imagine that communism would spread through Southeast Asia? Was he proved correct?

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Quiz 25: Coexistence, Confrontation, and the New Global Economy