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AP Euro Chapter 29 Test

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What might be called the golden age of European economic growth was from
1945-1965
The nation that initially took the lead in the sexual revolution of the 1960s was
Sweden
The "permissive society" is characterized by all of the following except
Declining rates of divorce
The recreational drug of choice among college and university students in the 1960s was
Marijuana
In the 1960s, college and university students complained and demonstrated against all of the following except
Declining Enrollments
The most violent student revolts took place in
France, where students successfully encouraged unionized workers to back their protests
The influential philosopher who believed that a small group of students could liberate the masses from their control of the capitalist ruling class was
Herbert Marcuse
The author of The Feminine Mystique and who was a founder of the National Organization of Women was
Betty Friedan
A shocking event of the antiwar protests was the 1970 killing of four student protesters at
Kent State
The Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev
was relatively stable, although it threatened Soviet intervention when socialism was threatened in eastern European nations
The Soviet claim that had the right to intervene if socialism was threatened in another socialist state, was the
Brezhnev Doctrine
The Solidarity movement in Poland
was outlawed in 1981 and its leaders arrested
The east block nation that in the 1960s adopted a modified capitalism and who improved relations with the
West was
Hungary
In Czechoslovakia, the "Prague Spring"
was shortly brought to an end by the Red Army.
The East German leader Erich Honecker was most noted for
establishing a virtual dictatorship by using the Stasi or secret police in the 1970s and 1980s.
A major cause of the 1973 economic recession in Europe was
a significant increase in the price of oil.
The West German chancellor whose policy of Ostpolitik improved relations with East Germany was
Willy Brandt
All of the following occurred in Great Britain under Margaret Thatcher except
improved industrial production in the Midlands.
"Eurocommunism" was most successful in
Italy
During the Vietnam War, the South Vietnamese Communist guerillas backed by North Vietnam were known as
Vietcong
The Vietnam War
showed the limitations of American power, leading to improved Soviet-American relations.
The economic problems of the United States in the 1970s was the result of what is referred to as
Stagflation
In his quest for the presidency in 1968, Richard Nixon relied upon a
Southern Strategy
The issue that led to Jimmy Carter's defeat in 1980 was
His inability to gain the release of American hostages held in Iran
The American president who made the decision to bomb North Vietnam and who significantly increased the number of American troops in the Second Vietnam War was
Lyndon Johnson
The major European figure most critical of America's war in Vietnam in the 1960s was
Charles de Gaulle
The doctrine that eased Cold War tensions in the 1970s is known as
détente
The Chinese communist movement in the 1960s and 1970s with the aim of crushing "the four olds" was known
"The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution"
The American president who journeyed to the People's Republic of China in 1972 was
Richard Nixon
An appropriate symbol of détente between Russia and America was the ABM Treaty of 1972 that
pledged the two nations to limit their development of anti-ballistic missile systems thus avoiding a new arms race.
The 1975 Helsinki Agreements
recognized all borders in central and eastern Europe established since World War II thereby acknowledging a Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe.
Under the U.S. presidency of Jimmy Carter, a major goal of American foreign policy was
the protection of human rights globally
The American President who referred to the Soviet Union as the "evil empire" and who was a supporter of the SDI was
Ronald Reagan
The American president who helped maintain a Vietman-like war in Afghanistan the by aiding anti-Soviet
Ronald Reagan
"Small" wars like the ones in Vietnam and Afghanistan demonstrated that
there would be wars that the superpowers could not win against a strong nationalist and guerilla-type opposition.
The major figure responsible for America's atomic bomb during World War II was
J. Robert Oppenheimer
The British mathematician who designed a computer that assisted in breaking the secret German codes during
World War II was
Alan Turning
An important figure in the development of an early computer and the inventor of the computer language
COBOL was
Grace Hopper
The French philosopher of deconstructionism, who claimed that in reading people create their own meaning and that this is no fixed or universal meaning, was
Jacques Derrida
European Green movements
made average people aware of environmental problems and gained a variety of local and national political offices.
Postmodernism in art could include all of the following except
Photorealism.
The major trend in classical music since World War II, as best expressed in the works of Olivier Messiaen, has been
Serialism
The American composer Philip Glass is associated with an acclaimed offshoot of serialism combining elements of classical and popular music in repeated tonal forms and known as
Minimalism
The Nobel Prize-winning author whose literary works exemplify the literary style of "magic realism" is
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The European writer who used fantasy to examine more issues and who remained confident about the human condition was
Milan Kundera.
A fundamental critique of the destructive nature of Big Science and modern technology was offered in Small is Beautiful written by
E.F. Schumacher.
In the late 1970s, punk rock music was exemplified by
the Sex Pistols
World-wide, the most popular of "mass sports" is
Soccer World Cup
The terrorist group who murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games was the
The Red Army
In the 1960s, Marshall McLuhan predicted that the scenario for the future would be
A Global Village
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