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World War II not only devastated the countries, cities, peoples, and cultures of Europe, but also destroyed

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European supremacy in world affairs

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At the close of World War II who inherited the European tradition of power politics?

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The Soviet Union and the United States

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The first area of conflict in the unfolding of the Cold War was

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Eastern europe

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A key factor contributing to the development of the Cold War in Eastern Europe was

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Stalin's desire to establish pro-Soviet governments in the countries of Eastern Europe to serve as a buffer zone against possible western attacks on the Soviet Union

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The Truman Doctrine was a consequence of a civil war in

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Greece

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The Truman Doctrine did all of the following except

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Condemn the victory of the Communists in the Chinese civil war

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In June 1947, the United States initiated the European Recovery Program, better known as

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The Marshall Plan

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Truman an his Western European allies responded to Stalin's blockade of Berlin in 1948 by

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Airlifting supplies into Berlin

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NATO is

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A military alliance

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The communist military response to the formation of NATO was the

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Warsaw Pact

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An overall effect of the Korean War on the Cold War was

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The reinforcement of the American determination to "contain" Soviet power

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The Cold War policy adopted in the mid-1950s by the Eisenhower administration was

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Massive retaliation

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The Warsaw Pact included all of the following nations except

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Yugoslavia

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The policy created in 1947 and used by the Americans against Communism was called

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Containment

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The event that immediately preceded and sparked the Cuban Missile Crisis was

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The Bay of Pigs

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The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 concluded with

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Improved communications between the U.S. And the Soviet Union to prevent nuclear war

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The origins of the Vietnam War in part lie in the process of decolonization because

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The division of Vietnam into antagonistic northern and southern states occurred after Vietnamese military forces had defeated the French former governors of the region

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African independence parties were usually led by

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Western educated intellectuals

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In 1949, Chiang Kai-Shek transferred the Chinese Nationalist government

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Taiwan

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The Middle Eastern political leader who promoted Pan-Arabism and who advocated a sharing of Middle Eastern oil wealth equally among the Arab states was

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Gamal Abdul Nasser

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The one issue on which the Arab states were united was

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Palestine

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The Indonesian president who was suspicious of the West sought economic aid from China and the Soviet Union, and relied at home in a native communist party was

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Sukarno

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"An orgy of blood" refers to

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The separation of Pakistan from India

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The Great Leap Forward was

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Mao Zedong's effort to achieve a classless society an the final stage of communism

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The economic policies of Stalin

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Emphasized the development of heavy industry and the production of modern weapons and space vehicles

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The 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 1956 Khrushchev

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Condemned Stalin

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An example of the relaxation of repressive Stalinism during Khrushchev regime was the publication of

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Solzhenitsyn's A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

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Yugoslavia from World War II through the 1960s was characterized by

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The leadership of Tito who asserted Yugoslavia's independence from the Soviet Union

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In 1956 in Poland Wladyslaw Gomulka

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Declared his nations right to follow its own socialist path

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Due to its strong democratic traditions the last Eastern European country to fall under Soviet unions power one-party domination after World War II was

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Czechoslovakia

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Charles de Gaulle withdrew from politics in 1946 because

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He believed the fourth Republic had become weak

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As president of France Charles de Gualle position in the cold war was to

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Make France the third nuclear power and pursue a largely independent political course

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The first chancellor and found hero of the western German federal republic was

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Konrad Adenauer

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One country that was not an original member of the European coal and steel community was

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England

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Which of the following statements concerning postwar Great Britain is false

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The conservative party in the 1950s and 1960s revoked nearly all of the welfare legislation passed by the Labour Party in the 1940s

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Postwar Italian politics was characterized by

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The hegemony of the Christian Democrats with backing from the Catholic Church

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The common market was

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Sounded for economic reasons including to promote free trade among member nations

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Which one of the following does not characterize life in the United States during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower

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United States withdrew into isolationism

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The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s included all of the following except

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Saw the Supreme Court approved the concept of separate but equal in public schools

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In the postwar world Canada

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Experienced many of the same developments as the United States

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The social structure of the postwar European society has been greatly affected by a dramatic increase in the number of

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White-collar management and administrative personnel

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All of the following statements regarding women in the postwar era are correct except

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Working women received equal pay with men by the 1960s

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In her pathbreaking text the second sex the influential friends feminist author Simone de Beauvoir

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Women were always in wrongly defined by their differences for men and consequently seen as second-class beings

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The post world war two art world has been mostly dominated by

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New York city

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The American artist Jackson Pollock was most noted for

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Abstract expressionist paintings

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The philosophical doctrine of Existentialism with its emphasis on God as a fiction no preordained human destiny in the human creation of all values

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Was best expressed in the works of the writers Albert Camus and John Paul Sartre

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The philosophical doctrine of existentialism stressed

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The need for people to create their own values and give their lives meaning

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The horrors of two world wars the cold war and attendant socio-cultural upheavals have also stimulated a late 20th century what religious revival exemplified in the works of Karl Barth Who has argued

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That the sinful and in perfect nature of humans means that they can know religious truth not through reason but only through the grace of God

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American motion pictures in the postwar years has

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Been the primary vehicle for the diffusion of American pop culture throughout the world

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Television did not become readily available until

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The 1940s

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