Question 1

What is an example of the relaxation of repressive Stalinism during Khrushchev's regime?

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A)  The publication of his own autobiography
B)  The publication of Stalin's Last Will and Testament
C)  The publication of Trotsky's Dr. Zhivago
D)  The publication of Solzhenitsyn's A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
E)  The publication of the Bible and the Koran for the first times since the Revolution of 1917F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 2

define the following term:
-the superpowers

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Question 3

What did French feminist author Simone de Beauvoir argue in her path-breaking text, The Second Sex ?

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A)  Women should renounce contact with men and set up their own self-governing communes.
B)  Women were always and wrongly defined by their differences from men and consequently seen as second-class beings.
C)  World War II had legitimated the political advantages and hegemonic power of males.
D)  A "sexual revolution" was impossible.
E)  There was absolutely no hope in improving the status of women in the near future.F) A) and D)
G) None of the above

Question 4

define the following term:
-welfare state

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A welfare state refers to a form of gove...

Question 5

In 1954, ____ lost its struggle to remain in control of Indochina.

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A)  Japan
B)  Britain
C)  China
D)  France
E)  the NetherlandsF) D) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 6

define the following term:
-apartheid

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Question 7

What best applies to the philosophical doctrine of existentialism?

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A)  It was dominant in the universities of Great Britain and the United States.
B)  It concentrated on logic and a theory of knowledge.
C)  It was totally at odds with the confidence and prosperity of the post-war world.
D)  It was best expressed in the works of French writers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre.
E)  It exemplified the spiritualism of the "Age of Aquarius."F) B) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 8

Where did the Soviet Union install a pro-Soviet regime in the immediate aftermath of World War II?

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A)  Finland
B)  Iraq
C)  Poland
D)  Yugoslavia
E)  TurkeyF) None of the above
G) B) and E)

Question 9

define the following term:
-EEC/Common Market

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The European Economic Community (EEC), a...

Question 10

define the following term:
-Great Leap Forward

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-Great Leap Forward...

Question 11

define the following term:
-Vietnam War

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Question 12

How was the Cuban missile crisis resolved? What changes were made in its aftermath?

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The Cuban missile crisis was resolved th...

Question 13

define the following term:
-Mahatma Gandhi

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Question 14

define the following term:
-Pope John XXIII

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Question 15

define the following term:
-mutual deterrence

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Mutual deterrence is a concept in intern...

Question 16

Which country's civil war led to the establishment of the Truman Doctrine?

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A)  Yugoslavia
B)  Greece
C)  Italy
D)  Czechoslovakia
E)  PolandF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 17

Which country was a member of the Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) ?

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A)  Poland
B)  West Germany
C)  Turkey
D)  Hungary
E)  FranceF) None of the above
G) A) and D)

Question 18

Describe the course of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the first three decades following World War II.

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The Arab-Israeli conflict in the first t...

Question 19

What was the Great Leap Forward?

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A)  Stalin's stated philosophy for his last five-year plan
B)  The radicalization of the feminist movement
C)  Mao Zedong's effort to achieve a classless society and the final stage of communism
D)  The missile race between the United States and the Soviet Union
E)  Mao Zedong's New Economic Policy, modeled on Lenin's early 1920s economic reformsF) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 20

define the following term:
-existentialism

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Existentialism is a philosophical moveme...

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