Which event symbolized for the world the fall of Soviet Communism in 1989?
When East and West German citizens tore down the Berlin Wall with sledgehammers in November 1989
Why did European governments in the postwar era fund both radio and television broadcasting with tax dollars?
To elevate the quality of programming and avoid what they perceived as the substandard fare offered by American commercial TV
The Black Panthers compared their struggle in the United States to
the struggles of formerly colonized peoples for independence.
The wave of terrorism that hit Europe and the Middle East in the 1970s
began in the West, as young people in Europe responded to the suppression of activism and poor economic conditions with kidnappings, bank robberies, bombings, and assassinations.
U.S. president Richard M. Nixon’s 1972 visit to what country helped to speed up the process of détente between the United States and the Soviet Union?
China
Why did the study of anthropology become attractive to many university students during the postindustrial era?
It offered the chance to study cultures that were relatively untouched by modernization and industrialization.
The Airbus project was an example of the
cooperation among government, business, and science and among members of the Common Market.
According to this map, who mobilized to Czechoslovakia in 1968 during the Prague Spring?
Nations that were part of the Warsaw Pact
Richard Nixon won election as president of the United States in 1968 partly because of what campaign promise?
That he would bring peace to Vietnam
Which of the following nations was the first to become free from communism? (map)
Poland
What Polish labor movement led by Lech Walesa and Anna Walentynowicz, workers at the shipyards of Gdańsk, Poland, helped bring down Soviet communism?
Solidarity
Which of the following was a system through which government-banned literature was secretly published and distributed in the Soviet Union?
Samizdat
The Airbus project was an example of the
cooperation among government, business, and science and among members of the Common Market.
U.S. president Richard M. Nixon’s 1972 visit to what country helped to speed up the process of détente between the United States and the Soviet Union?
China
The two maps reproduced here collectively exemplify the emergence of what in 1970s Europe?
Nationalist movements
The 1968 student protests in France attracted workers as well as students, as both were demanding
a greater voice in official decision making, whether on campus or in the factory.
The West German foreign minister Willy Brandt’s anti–cold war policy of opening up trade with Communist East Germany in the late 1960s was known as what?
Ostpolitik
What does the acronym NOW stand for?
The National Organization for Women, founded in 1966 in the United States
The 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey not only reflected the enormous popular interest in space but also showed that science fiction was increasingly
addressing issues about life and humanity that were formerly the domain of church leaders.
Which of the following was one of the most famous postwar practitioners of pop art?
Andy Warhol
Historians have observed that, whereas early modern families focused their efforts on independent subsistence production and the teaching of craft skills to younger generations, postindustrial families
served a predominantly psychological purpose, with parents providing emotional support to children who gained their intellectual skills in school.
What Polish labor movement led by Lech Walesa and Anna Walentynowicz, workers at the shipyards of Gdańsk, Poland, helped bring down Soviet communism?
Solidarity
As neoliberalism took hold in the 1980s and 1990s and European governments began cutting the welfare state, which country maintained a full array of social programs?
Sweden
The combination of economic conditions—rising prices, rising interest rates, and high unemployment—that hit the oil-dependent Western nations as a result of the OPEC oil embargo became known as what?
Stagflation
