Ap Euro Practice Test 29 – Flashcards
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During the 1960s the drug of chice for most college students was...
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Marijuana
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the nation that initially took the lead in the sexual revolution of the 1960s was...
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Sweden
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The permisive society is characterized by all of the following except...
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declining rates of divorce
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Playboy magazine
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encouraged men to find sexual satisfaction outside their marriages
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in the 1960s, college and univercity students complained and demonstrated against all of the following except...
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declining enrollments
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The song, "The Times They Are A-Changin'" was written by
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Bob Dylan
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Herbert Marcuse's 'One dimentional man'
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Posited that capitalism was responsible for heightening the discontent of the masses
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The auther of "the feminine Mystique" and was a founder of N.O.W.
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Betty Frieden
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Student protests backfired in europe backfired to an extent as...
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the full police powers of the states of Europe were brought down upon the protesters
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The Ohio National Guard killed 4 student protesters in 19/0 at
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Kent State University
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Under the Brezhnev doctrine..
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the Soviets declared the right of intervention if a socialist state were threatened.
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The solidarity movement in poland..
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was outlawed in 1981 and its leaders arrested
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The resignation of Antonin Novotny
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a writers' rebellion
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In Czechoslovakia "Prague Spring"
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was brought to an abrupt end by the Red Army
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East German leader, Erich honecker, most noted for
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establishing a virtual dictatorship by using the Stasi or secret police in the 1970s and 1980s
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The romainian secret police
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Securitate
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The west german chanceller whose policy of Ostpolitik improved relations with east germany
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Willy Brandt
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Great britain under margarett thatcher
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a large military buildup and hardline approach against communism
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Eurocommunism was most successful in...
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Italy
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In 1965, President charles de gaulle of france called the united states "the greatest danger in the world today for peace
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Vietnam
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The vietnam war
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showed the limitations of American power, leading to improved Soviet-American relations
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The economic problems of the United states in the 1970s have been labeleds...
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stagflation
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After his election to the presidency in 1968, Richard Nixon pursued a "southern strategy" targeting...
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Southern Whites
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The issue that lead to Jimmy Carters defeat in in 1980 was...
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the collapse of oil prices
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The american president that made the decition to bomb North Vietnam and who significantly increase the number of american troops in the 2nd Veitnam war was...
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Dwight Eisenhower
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by the mid 1960s the primary concern of the united states was..
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China
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The doctrine that eased coldd war tensions in the 1970s is known as...
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detente
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the "four olds" targeted during the Great proletarian Cultural Revolution includedd all of the following except...
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old rulers
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The american president that journeyed to the peoples republic of china in 1972 was...
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Richard Nixon
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An appropriate signal of detente between Russia and America was the ABM treaty of 1972 that...
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pledged the two nations to limit their development of anti-ballistic missile systems thus avoiding a new arms race
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The 1975 Helsinki agreements...
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recognized all borders in central and eastern Europe established since WWII thereby acknowledging a Soviet Sphere of influence in Eastern Europe
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under the US presidency of Jimmy Carter a magor goal of the american foreign policy was...
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the protection of human rights globally
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The policies of Ronald Reagon...
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more than doubled the national debt
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The American president who helped maintain a vietnam-like war in afghanistan by aiding anti-soviet insurgents was...
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Ronald Reagan.
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Wars like the ones in Vietnam and Afghanistan demonstrated that...
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there would be wars that the superpowers could not win against a strong nationalist and guerilla-type opposition
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The Soviet lanch of sputnik occured in
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1957
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The british Mathmatician who designed a commputer that assisted in breaking the secret german codes during WWII was...
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Alan Turing
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An important figure in the developement of an early computer and the inventor of the computer language COBOL
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Grace Hopper
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Small is beautiful is a fundemental critique of the dangers of...
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Science and technology
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European green movements...
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made average people aware of environmental problems and gained a variety of local and national political offices.
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Postmodernism in art could include all of the following except..
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an architecture of complexity and contradiction
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A major trend in music since WWII, best expressed by the works of Olivier Messiaen, has been...
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serialism
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The American composer Philip Glass exemplified..
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Minimalism
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The literary workemploying "magic realism"
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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The Euro writer tbat used fantacy to examine the human condition was
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Milan Kundera
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Small is beautiful written by...
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E.F. Schumacher
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Punk rock exemplified by...
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the Sex Pistols
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The most watched event on TV..
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World Cup
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terrerist group that murdered israili atheletes at the 1972 olympic Games was the..
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Black September
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In 1960 Marshall McLuhan predicted the scenario
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A global village
