In Black Skin, White Masks (1952) and The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Frantz Fanon, a Black psychiatrist from the French colony of Martinique, proposed that
liberation movements used violence to attain their ends because their members had been traumatized by the violence used to colonize their countries.
An exception to the rule in eastern Europe, the Communist ruler Tito (Josip Broz, 1892–1980) established a fairly independent, non-Soviet Communist state in
Yugoslavia.
Which of the following was the Catholic Council convened by Pope John XXIII in 1962 in response to what he saw as a crisis in faith caused by affluence and secularism?
The Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II
In 1949, the Soviet Union created regional economic organizations in order to
coordinate economic relations between the Soviet Union and its satellite countries.
When Stalin died in 1953, the situation in the Soviet Union and its satellites
shifted as political prisoners and workers protested the repressive conditions under Stalinism and the Communist power structure, leading to political reforms.
Which country remained mostly untouched by World War II?
The United States
In 1956, the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) criticized
Stalin’s misguided political and economic policies and his “cult of personality.”
Based on the data appearing on this map, what contributing factor to later Middle Eastern tensions is evident?
Upon its creation, Israel absconded lands not proposed for it in 1947.
The Allied victors all believed that one of their tasks in occupied Germany was ideological reorientation, a task that they accomplished through
a program of “denazification.”
What was the Marshall Plan designed to provide?
Food, equipment, and services to war-devastated Europe
The Allied victors all believed that one of their tasks in occupied Germany was ideological reorientation, a task that they accomplished through
a program of “denazification.”
What European country experienced a stunning revival in the 1960s that was labeled the “economic miracle”?
West Germany
Why were the French forced to withdraw from Indochina in 1954?
Ho Chi Minh’s peasant army defeated them.
When Stalin died in 1953, the situation in the Soviet Union and its satellites
shifted as political prisoners and workers protested the repressive conditions under Stalinism and the Communist power structure, leading to political reforms.
Which of the following icons of popular culture was one of the most recognizable products of the post–World War II world?
Elvis Presley
What notable change ensured the United Nations a greater chance of success than its predecessor, the League of Nations?
Both the United States and the Soviet Union were active members from the outset.
Protests erupted in Paris and around the world in the late 1950s as a result of which of the following?
The French army’s brutal actions toward Algerians seeking independence
Why did Great Britain initially refuse to join the European Economic Community (EEC) established by Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands in 1957?
It flinched at the prospect of losing status through absorption into the European continent.
Starting relatively soon after World War II, western European countries received a large number of immigrant workers from their former
colonies.
What was the Marshall Plan designed to provide?
Food, equipment, and services to war-devastated Europe
Youth culture in postwar Europe took its inspiration from what American style?
Rock-and-roll
In 1960, Niger, Chad, and Mali gained independence from which country?
France
How did the United States respond when, in 1948, the Soviets blockaded Berlin, which was situated more than one hundred miles inside the Soviet zone?
It staged Operation Vittles, an ongoing airlift that supplied the residents of Berlin with food and fuel into the spring of 1949.
Why did Yuri Gagarin cause great concern in the United States?
He was the first man to orbit the earth, thus demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ahead of the United States in space technology.
