Chapter 26 Exam Flashcards
Nazi Germany’s use of forced foreign labor and the many boundary changes resulting from the end of World War II led to a what after the conclusion of this war?
Refugee crisis in Western Europe
What can be said of the Western birth rate after the end of World War II?
A brief increase in the Western birth rate came to an end in the 1960s
Membership in the Communist Party under Stalin’s rule during the Cold War era was what?
Kept low to ensure the selection of the most dedicated members to the Soviet bureaucracy
In 1956, Britain and France unsuccessfully attacked Egypt, trying to do what?
Prevent the Suez Canal from being nationalized by the Egyptian government
The European Union achieved complete economic unity in 1992 when it did what?
dismantled all trade and currency exchange barriers that existed among member countries
Critics of Western popular culture during the 1960s and 1970s __________.
were concerned that popular culture would distract people from ongoing social problems, such as social inequality
A strong emphasis on central controls coupled with demagoguery and paranoia best described what?
Stalin’s rule in the Soviet Union
Cold War engagement by the United States during the late 1940s led to what?
the creation of the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency
The Marshall Plan was designed by the United States to do what?
provide loans to help Western European nations rebuild after World War II
Social distinctions between the middle class and the working class in Western societies were maintained because the middle class had greater opportunities for what?
Leisure
Nazi Germany’s use of forced foreign labor and the many boundary changes resulting form the end of World War II led to a what after the conclusion of this war?
Refugee crisis in Western Europe
The decolonization movement in Africa and Asia after World War II was what?
Relatively peaceful, with a few exceptions
Many of the protest movements that occurred in Western democracies during the 1960s were led by whom?
Students
How was the Soviet reaction to the establishment of liberal communist governments in 1956 different in Hungary than it was in Poland?
the Soviets cruelly crushed the new regime in Hungary but accepted the more popular Polish leader
The Soviet Union became a fully industrial society between the 1920s and the 1950s due mainly to what?
the rapid growth of manufacturing and a rise in the urban population to more than 50 percent of the total
Beginning in the Cold War era, Soviet and Western societies shared similar demographic patterns involving what?
decreasing birth rates
The Soviet idea to produce at all costs resulted in what?
severe damage to the environment
One major goal of welfare states established in Western Europe after World War II was to __________ in this region.
reduce economic inequality
North Korea
The Soviet Union established a protectorate over the communist regime in the East Asian nation of what to match the U.S. protectorate in the neighboring noncommunist nation.
The new West German constitution that was written after World War II avoided earlier mistakes made by the Weimar Republic during the 1920s by doing what?
Outlawing extremist political movements
The Christian Democratic political movement, which emerged after the end of World War II in Western Europe, advocated parliamentary democracies and what?
moderate social reform
President Harry Truman’s promised support for “free peoples who are resisting subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures” specifically applied to communist pressures on where in 1947?Greece and Turkey
Greece and Turkey
What can be said of the Orthodox church in the Soviet Union after the 1917 Russian Revolution?
the Soviet regime greatly limited the Orthodox church’s outreach
What can be said about the impact of the welfare state on Western societies during the 1950s and 1960s?
Welfare commitments made up the largest component of Western government budgets outside the United States.
