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A set of multiple-choice questions and answers covering key events and developments in 20th-century history. It focuses on significant historical figures, political changes, and social transformations in europe, the united states, and latin america. The questions are designed to test understanding of major historical events and their impact on the world.
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d. Richard Nixon ended the war in Vietnam. - ANSWER All of the following occurredbetween 1945 and 1960 except
a. Konrad Adenauer becomes Chancellor in West Germany. b. Charles De Gaulle was elected president of France. c. the development of a welfare state in Britain was facilitated by the election of theLabour Party.
d. Richard Nixon ended the war in Vietnam. e. Dwight D. Eisenhower served two terms as president of the United States. d. established the welfare state in Britain. - ANSWER The new prime minister of GreatBritain immediately after World War II, Clement Attlee,
a. included two Communist members in his cabinet. b. was a leftist revolutionary, whom the king removed two months after he took office. c. favored abolition of all private banks in the country. d. established the welfare state in Britain.
e. blocked parliamentary consideration of a National Health Insurance Act. b. It restricted union power. - ANSWER What did Thatcherism do? a. It increased the benefits of the welfare state.b. It restricted union power. c. It increased the power of the labor unions. d. It banned the playing of rock music in Britain.e. It ended capitalism in Britain.
e. the Serbian policy of "ethnic cleansing" - ANSWER What did the disintegration ofpost-World War II Yugoslavia result in?
a. the dictatorship of Marshal Titob. a union of Slovenia and Croatia c. the peaceful merger of Serbia and Croatia d. the triumph of Bosnia over Serbiae. the Serbian policy of "ethnic cleansing"
a. an economic union. - ANSWER The European Community was primarily a. an economic union.b. a political union. c. a military alliance. d. restricted to the nations of southern and eastern Europe.e. a passing phenomena, which disappeared after the ending of the Cold War.
job or retirement. e. an increased feeling of nationalism among the American people. a. strong support for labor unions and war on poverty programs. - ANSWER The ReaganRevolution included all of the following except
a. strong support for labor unions and war on poverty programs. b. a decrease in spending on social welfare programs. c. tax reduction. d. an increase in military expenditures. e. a resultant growth in federal budget deficits. d. an increase in the number of democratic regimes in the 1980s and 1990s. - ANSWERMajor developments in Latin America since 1955 have included
a. large increases in the incomes of peasants and industrial workers. b. sharp reductions in foreign debt in the 1970s, as governments worked to reduceoutsiders' control of their economies.
c. an end to the cultivation of coca and marijuana in the region by 1990. d. an increase in the number of democratic regimes in the 1980s and 1990s.
e. the outbreak of serious interracial conflict, often sparking large urban riots andfrightening outbreaks of savage "ethnic cleansing."
b. The Bay of Pigs disaster, an attempt by the Kennedy administration to overthrow theCuban government, resulted in a Soviet decision (later abandoned) to place missiles in Cuba. - ANSWER Which of the following statements accurately describes developmentsrelating to Cuba in the late 1950s and early 1960s?
a. President Johnson authorized the CIA to train Cuban exiles to invade the island. b. The Bay of Pigs disaster, an attempt by the Kennedy administration to overthrow theCuban government, resulted in a Soviet decision (later abandoned) to place missiles in Cuba. c. Fidel Castro was overthrown by Fulgencio Batista. d. Ché Guevara successfully established a communist government in Bolivia. e. Fidel Castro withdrew Cuba from the United Nations. b. achieved notable success in public health and education. - ANSWER The CubanRevolution led by Fidel Castro
a. provided help only for the large ranchers and owners of sugar plantations. b. achieved notable success in public health and education. c. increased Cuba's reliance on sugar production.
e. there was a growth of tourism and mass leisure. b. grade inflation. - ANSWER Demonstrations occurred on university campuses duringthe 1960s for all of the following reasons except a. protests against the Vietnam War. b. grade inflation. c. seemingly irrelevant educational requirements. d. desire for greater involvement in the running of the university. e. The spread of radicalism from the Civil Rights Movement, new cultural trends, and the women's liberation movement on to the campus a. experienced a dramatic change in status. - ANSWER In the twentieth century,Western women have
a. experienced a dramatic change in status. b. been unaffected by modern developments in contraception and abortion techniques. c. found little support for birth control and abortion. d. found fewer professional opportunities available to them than before 1910.
e. abandoned professional careers for the profession of homemaker. c. Became highly commercialized during the second half of the twentieth century. -ANSWER Popular culture
a. is, to a significant degree, created in secret government-run factories whoseintention is to distract people from the prevailing democracy deficit. b. has proven unexpectedly resistant to exploitation by commercial interests. c. Became highly commercialized during the second half of the twentieth century. d. is mainly Asian in emphasis. e. has had little influence on most of the world's peoples. False - ANSWER Charles de Gaulle returned to power in France as a result of the crisisin Vietnam.
False - ANSWER The first female leaders of powerful Western European states(Margaret Thatcher and Angela Merkel) were/are members of parties that had long championed women's rights. True - ANSWER British Prime Minister Tony Blair's popularity declined because of hissupport of the war in Iraq.
False - ANSWER The disintegration of Czechoslovakia led to ethnic cleansing in Bosniaand Kosovo.