Question 1

A major lesson Hitler learned from the Spanish Civil War was

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the deep reluctance of Britain and France to see another European war.

Question 2

After the Nazis invaded Russia, allied forces opened a second front in Europe during the summer of 1943, when they invaded

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Italy.

Question 3

Contributing to the weakness of the League of Nations was the fact that

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Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States were not members.

Question 4

Defeated by the Germans, northern France was occupied and its southern region and territories fell under the jurisdiction of a government under the leadership of the First World War hero

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Marshal Henri Philippe PÃ©tain.

Question 5

From the late 1930s until 1941, when Germany seized a large territory that had a numerous Jewish population, the German war on the Jews concentrated on emigration, not extermination, with a plan to send Europe\'s Jews to

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Madagascar.

Question 6

Hitler\'s stated objective in the 1930s was to reunite all ethnic Germans within his Third German Reich. His first move toward accomplishing this objective was _____________, which did not draw a military response from Britain or France.

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the reoccupation of the Rhineland

Question 7

In 1941, Romania, Hungary, and _________ joined Hitler\'s Germany as allies of the Nazis.

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Bulgaria

Question 8

It was _________ troops that entered and occupied Berlin at the end of the war.

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Soviet

Question 9

It was not only the Germans who tortured and murdered eastern European Jews but also groups of:

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Polish villagers.

Question 10

Once Hitler had pieced together an empire that stretched across Europe, he declared,

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\"We come as the heralds of a New Order and a new justice.\"

Question 11

One cause of another world war was the impotence of the League of Nations and the victors failure to

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create lasting and binding standards for peace and security.

Question 12

The Treaty of Versailles created smaller new states in eastern Europe that

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created new forms of bitterness and nationalistic conflicts.

Question 13

The character of the war changed in the east when Russians rallied to defend the

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rodina.

Question 14

The economic nationalism that inflamed international tensions and even internal relations between management and labor stemmed from

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the Great Depression.

Question 15

The largest Jewish resistance came in the spring of 1943 at

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the Warsaw ghetto.

Question 16

The leader of the most powerful Yugoslavian resistance group during the war was:

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Josib Broz.

Question 17

The mid-1930s saw two non-European tests for the League of Nations: Mussolini\'s invasion of Ethiopia and:

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Japan\'s aggression against China.

Question 18

To solve some of its economic problems, Germany was allowed to

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rearm after 1935.

Question 19

To whom does the term Untermenschen refer?

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It referred to the \"subhuman\" racial categories of Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs marked for murder by Nazi officials in occupied Europe.

Question 20

When Germany invaded Russia, following German front-line troops into the country were military death squads charged with dealing with undesirable individuals among the conquered peoples. These squads were called

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Einsatzgruppen.

Question 21

Why did Neville Chamberlain presume that the agreements at the Munich conference would satisfy Hitler\'s ambitions?

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It allowed Hitler to unify all ethnic Germans in one state.

Question 22

Writers, intellectuals and politicians on the left saw efforts to negotiate with fascist in the 1930s as

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vile.

Question 23

A major miscalculation by the French in their effort to regain and retain French Indochina resulted in their dramatic defeat at the battle of:

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Dien Bien Phu.

Question 24

Although the war in Indochina was hard on the French, the war in Algeria was much harder, because it involved:

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fighting a guerrilla war in the countryside.

Question 25

Because of the mutual suspicions and political aspirations of India\'s Hindu-dominated Congress Party and the Muslim League, in 1947,

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British India was partitioned into India and Pakistan.

Question 26

Britain encouraged the creation of a federated state in its former African colony of __________________, but the new federation rapidly disintegrated.

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Rhodesia

Question 27

George Orwell\'s novel 1984, which, is concerned with of

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the oppression of the state.

Question 28

In 1955, the Soviet Union and its allies in Eastern Europe responded to the formation of NATO with the formation of the

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Warsaw Pact.

Question 29

In a 1947 speech to Congress, President Harry S Truman set out his policy of support for the resistance of \"free peoples\" to communism by tying politics to economics; it would be a choice between \"two ways of life.\" This policy was known as

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the Truman Doctrine.

Question 30

In his manifesto, The Wretched of the Earth, __________ rejected Gandhi\'s ideas and stated that colonialism had to be thrown off by force.

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Frantz Fanon

Question 31

In the decades following World War II, some intellectuals attempted to determine how such phenomena as Nazism and Stalinism could take root in society. Hannah Arendt, saw them as new twentieth century political forms called

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totalitarianism.

Question 32

Marking the end of imperialist impunity, in 1956 the joint British, French, and Israeli attack on Egypt to seize control of the Suez Canal failed. This failure left the Arab nationalist _________ more firmly in power and made him a hero in Egypt.

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

Question 33

One of the consequences of World War II that would shape European history for nearly fifty years was:

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the emergence of two \"superpowers,\" the United States and the Soviet Union.

Question 34

One of the most promising of the newly independent African nations, Ghana, soon fell victim to corruption under its first president:

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Kwame Nkrumah.

Question 35

One of the results of the agreements at Bretton Woods, which created both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, was

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the pegging of all other currencies to the U.S. dollar.

Question 36

Postwar economic expansion in Europe helps fund social programs and led to the creation of governmental models termed as the

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welfare state.

Question 37

Rejecting the United States\' Marshall Plan in Western Europe, the Soviet Union created its own economic plan for recovery and redevelopment in Eastern Europe, known as

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Comecon.

Question 38

The first organization that helped promote European economic cooperation was founded in 1951 as the:

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European Coal and Steel Community.

Question 39

The philosophy of existentialism states that individuals

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are condemned to be free and therefore can give their lives meaning only through their choices and actions.

Question 40

The stated U.S. policy of containment regarding the Soviet Union in the post-World War II world was set forth in 1946 by

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George Kennan.

Question 41

The tenets of Marxism called for a revolution by the proletariat, that is, the industrial workers. However, China was a nation of peasants, so an anticolonial adaptation of Marxism was provided during the 1940s by

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Mao Zedong.

Question 42

The term \"Iron Curtain\" was coined by

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Winston Churchill.

Question 43

Which of the following helped foster the establishment of \"people\'s republics\" in Eastern Europe at the end of World War II?

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Soviet diplomatic pressure, political infiltration, and military power

Question 44

Which of the following political trends was one of the long-term results of the EEC\'s success?

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Individual European nations looked to European solutions to their problems.

Question 45

Which of the following was NOT an important element of the Marshall Plan?

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the restriction of Catholic political movements

Question 46

Arguably the most repressive dictatorship in Eastern Europe was that of Nicolae Ceausescu in:

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Romania

Question 47

By 1984, unemployment in Western Europe had reached:

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19 million

Question 48

By the middle of the 1960s, although new industries in Europe continued to prosper,

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basic industries such as steel, coal, and railways were running up debt and deficits

Question 49

During the 1960s, although most African American leaders were working within the civil rights movement, some sought complete independence from white society. One such leader was:

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Malcolm X

Question 50

During the economic boom of the 1950s, Germany and __________ were forced to import foreign workers to sustain the boom.

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France

Question 51

For Europeans the civil rights movement was discomforting because:

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it reminded them of their own colonial injustices

Question 52

In 1948 and again in 1953, _____________ made human sexual behavior a topic of conversation and offered the \"truth of sex.\"

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the Kinsey reports

Question 53

In 1963, Betty Friedan challenged many of the myths about women\'s roles, especially that of the supposedly happy housewife, in __________.

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The Feminine Mystique

Question 54

In 1968, the Soviet Union sent in troops and proclaimed the Brezhnev Doctrine to suppress the Prague spring, led by Alexander Dub?ek and other Czechoslovakian reformers who sought:

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to democratize the Czechoslovakian Communist party

Question 55

In 1973, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC):

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imposed an oil embargo against Western powers.

Question 56

In 1980 unrest peaked again with the rise of a labor movement in Poland. _________ organized strikes that threatened to bring the government down.

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Solidarity

Question 57

In November 1989, the embodiment of the Cold War, the _________, was torn down by ordinary citizens.

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Berlin Wall

Question 58

In the 1960s, US music charts began to be dominated by music from outside America with the

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\"British invasion.\"

Question 59

One of the contributing factors to the sexual revolution of the 1960s was the ready availability of:

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oral contraceptives

Question 60

One postwar invention that helped further the spread of popular music and new radio programs was:

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the transistor radio

Question 61

Resentment by West Germans toward East Germans continued into the 1990s after the Berlin Wall came down because of a \"wall in the mind,\" as it was called by

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GÃ¼nter Grass

Question 62

The \"velvet revolution\" in Czechoslovakia, in the end resulted in the Slovakian independence and the resignation of president:

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VÃ¡clav Havel

Question 63

The Russian term perestroika refers to a

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program of economic restructuring in the Soviet Union.

Question 64

The economies of the Soviet bloc also suffered during the 1970s as a result of inefficient per capita production and:

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high military expenditures

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