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Chapter 27 quiz
The Cold War World
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Undergraduate 1
05/17/2011

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The Soviets argued that they had a legitimate claim to control Eastern Europe based on negotiations at:
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Teheran and Yalta
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After 1945, "people's republics" were created in Eastern Europe by the:
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Soviet Union
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By 1948, the Soviets had established governments loyal to Moscow in all but which of the following?
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Yugoslavia
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The Soviets reacted to NATO, the Marshall plan, and United States involvement in Europe with:
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All of the above
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Stalin died in:
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1953
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Khrushchev's "secret speech" of 1956:
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denounced the excesses of the Stalinist regime
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Between 1953 and 1956, uprisings against the Soviets took place in all but which of the following countries?
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Czechoslovakia
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The Marshall Plan:
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provided 13 billion dollars for the industrial development of Europe
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The Western European "economic miracle" rested upon:
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all of the above
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In 1966, Charles de Gaulle:
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withdrew French forces from NATO
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Which pairing is incorrect?
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Jean-Paul Sartre -- The Plague
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Khrushchev erected the Berlin Wall in August 1961:
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to prevent East Germans from escaping to western Europe
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As the president of Egypt, Gamal Abdel Nasser
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all of the above
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The 1954 Geneva Accords:
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divided Vietnam into North and South Vietnam
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The largest and most deprived group in Algerian society were:
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Muslim Arabs
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The Chinese Revolution of 1949 was led by:
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Mae Zedong
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The end of the Korean War in 1953:
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left Korea as it had been divided in 1945
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The Suez crisis of 1956 destroyed the claims to imperial power of:
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Britain
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The Berlin Blockade came to an end in May 1949:
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with the creation of West and East Germany
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By 1953, both the United States and Soviet Union:
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had developed the hydrogen bomb
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In The Origins of Totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt argued that:
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Nazism and Stalinism were both forms of totalitarian government
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Which of the following statements about the Common Market is incorrect?
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all member nations pledged themselves to liberal democracy
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The International Monetary Fund and World Bank were established in 1944 at a conference held in:
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Bretton Woods
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In 1948, which country of the Middle East declared its independence?
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Israel
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The French began peace talks with Britain, the United States, and Vietnam:
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after the fall of Dien Bien Phu in May 1954
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Aime Cesaire and Leopold Senghor were the most influential exponents of:
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Negritude or "black consciousness"
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