The Soviet equivalent to NATO was________________.
- a. the United Nations
b. nuclear weapons
c. a blockade of Berlin
d. the Warsaw Pact
Soviet troops crushed a grassroots revolt in which of the following countries after Khrushchev took power?
- a. Poland
b. Romania
c. North Korea
d. Hungary
Which of the following Latin American leaders best represents populist movements?
- a. Fidel Castro
b. Juan Perón
c. Evo Morales
d. None of these
_______ and ________ are examples of the mass consumer culture in the United States.
-
a. Tupperware and Avon
b. Savings bonds and Certificates of Deposit
c. Baseball and The Lone Ranger
d. Atlas and Explorer I
After the separation of India and Pakistan, the latter’s constitution . . .
- a. declined into an authoritarian regime
b. held strong, but incorporated fundamentalist Islamic principles
c. declined into anarchy
d. observed a policy of strict adherence
The period of 1945–1962 was ___________ than the preceding interwar period.
- a. far more brutal
b. far less brutal
c. roughly as brutal as
d. in no way comparable
After World War II, the United States and the Soviet Union were engaged in the Cold War, which could be best described as
- a. direct military engagement.
b. peaceful co-existence
c. socialism in one country
d. engagement through proxy states and ideological struggle.
Which of the following conferences did Franklin Roosevelt attend?
- a.
Yalta
b. Potsdam
c. Fulton
d. Manhattan
The conflict in the Koreas helped to produce what kind of reaction in America?
- a. A more tolerant understanding of communism.
b. A fervent anti-communism led by Senator McCarthy
c. A fervent anti-communism led by President Eisenhower
d. Unprecedented economic catastrophe
Which American policy maker had NO involvement with the failed “Bay of Pigs” invasion?
- a. George F. Kennan
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Dwight D. Eisenhower
d. Allen Dulles
The “Berlin Airlift” was undertaken by
- a. the Soviet Union in
response to the Marshall Plan.
b. the western powers to disrupt Eastern European recovery.
c. the United States and Britain to deliver food to Berlin for more than a year.
d. remaining Nazi to escape war crime trials.
Which statement best describes the turn of events after China’s 13. _______ is the line at which the two Koreas established an armistice in 1953.
- a. The Chinese boarder
b. The 58th parallel
c. The 83rd parallel
d. The 38th parallel
The outcome of the “The Great Leap Forward” was
- a. a monumental success.
b. a slight increase in agricultural production.
c. a slight decrease in agricultural production.
d. a monumental failure.
What conditions led to the 1953 revolts in East Germany?
- a. The death of Stalin
b. Rising production quotas and shortages resulting from the shipment of industrial goods to the Soviet Union
c. A strike of East Berlin workers
d. All of the above
In response to the Marshall Plan, Stalin
- a. forbade Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland to ask for aide.
b. engineered fledgling communist governments in Eastern Europe and the Balkans.
c. formalized the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance.
d. All of these
At the end of World War II, the French . . .
- a. followed British
policy.
b. were determined to reconstitute their empire.
c. happily rid themselves of troubled colonies.
d. all of the above.
The United Nations replaced the ______________ after its charter was signed in October of 1945.
- a. Cold War
b. NATO
c. League of Nations
d. None of these
“Free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures,” is a quote that describes which of the following?
- a. United Nations
b. Containment
c. Truman Doctrine
d. Stalin’s insistence on communist block unity
After setbacks on both sides, the Cold War reached its veritable climax during the _____.
- a. Space race
b. ICBM
c. Bay of Pigs invasion
d. Cuban Missile Crisis
Which statement best describes the turn of events after China’s involvement in the Korean War?
- a. U.N. forces were pushed back deep into South Korea.
b. The Chinese lost Russian support.
c. The Chinese lost territory to the Americans.
d. Taiwan was captured by the Chinese.
The state of Israel was created in which of the following decades?
- a. 1940s
b. 1950s
c. 1930s
d. 1960s
In which year did the Soviet Union detonate its first atomic weapon
- a. 1945
b. 1949
c. 1951
d. 1955
The fate of the Non-Aligned Movement was controlled by . . .
- a. Eastern and Western financial pressures.
b. political philosophies.
c. military contingencies.
d. populist uprisings.
The Cold War turned “hot” in which region of the globe?
- a. Europe
b. North America
c. the Korean Peninsula
d. China
The first nation to pioneer decolonization was
- a. South Africa
b. Ghana
c. Congo
d. Kenya
At the end of World War II, most of Latin America’s industry was related to what sectors?
- a. Machinery and Automotive
b. Food and Textile
c. Textile and Automotive
d. Service and Food
Political policies or principles that seek to represent the interests of ordinary people can best be described as ______________.
- a. Fascism
b. Nazism
c. Democracy
d. Populism
Latin America, Asia, and Africa all experienced a population _______________ in the period between 1945–1962.
- a. decrease
b. increase
c. reduction
d. None of these
Despite social unrest, the Soviet Union made advancements in which of the following fields?
- a. Culture
b. Politics
c. Technology
d. None of these
In the United States, Europe, and Japan ________ became a powerful cultural force during the return to normalcy after the turbulent war years.
- a. mass
consumption
b. fascism
c. communism
d. Avant grade art
________ was the name of the Soviets first space satellite.
- a. Yuri Gagarin
b. Stalinik
c. Sputnik
d. Valentina Tereshkova
____________ was the diplomat who proposed the policy of containment.
- a. Joseph Stalin
b. Harry Truman
c. George F. Kennan
d. George C. Marshall
The United States response to Russian ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) was the _________.
- a. Explorer I
b. Atlas
c. Hellfire
d. Cruise missile
After World War II, Latin America began to resemble____________ and _____________.
- a. North America and Europe
b. Asia and Africa
c. Europe and Asia
d. Asia and Australia
The legacy of colonialism on Sub-Saharan Africa was . . .
- a. a sharp population
increase.
b. the formation of a small, but restless, middle class.
c. the granting of independence rather than investments in infrastructure.
d. All of the above.
_______________ is any of the various movements in philosophy and the arts characterized by a deliberate break with classical or traditional forms of thought or expression.
- a.
Existentialism
b. Realism
c. Modernism
d. Transcendentalism
The outcome of the creation of Israel was a more ____________ Arab Nationalism.
- a. peaceful
b. benign
c. militant
d. subdued
The victors in the Chinese Civil War were the ___________________.
- a. Nationalists
b. supporters of Chiang Kai-shek
c. supporters of Mao Zedong
d. supports of Ho Chi Minh
In the early years of the Cold War, countries could basically be placed into which of the following categories
- a. Eastern Bloc and Communist
b. Colonies, Imperialist, and Communists
c. Western camp and capitalist democracies
d. Western camp, Eastern bloc, and the Non-Aligned Movement.
Approximately how many people (including civilians, combatants, and victims of the Holocaust) were killed during World War II.
- a. 5,000,000
b. 50,000,000
c. 5 million
d. 5 billion