History of Western Society Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive overview of the development of Western society from ancient times to the present. Through the exploration of key historical periods, figures, cultural movements, and transformative events, students will gain an understanding of how Western civilization has been shaped by political, economic, social, and intellectual forces. Emphasis is placed on the evolution of institutions, the exchange of ideas, and interactions with other cultures, providing a foundation for interpreting the complexities of the modern Western world.
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Chapter 1: The Origins of Western Civilization in the Ancient
Near East,3000-1200 BCE
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Q1) Organization of work forces in Sumeria was the responsibility of A) priest-kings.
B) viziers.
C) civil administrators.
D) military commanders.
E) slave owners.
Answer: A
Q2) The first phase of civilization properly began with A) The Bronze Age.
B) written language.
C) the transition to homo sapiens.
D) organization into city-states.
E) the discovery of fire.
Answer: A
Q3) People of the Old Stone Age left no written records.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Q1) One of the unique products that the Phoenicians traded was
A) coffee from Africa.
B) lobsters from Crete.
C) hemp rope from Persia.
D) cotton from India.
E) purple dye from Tyre.
Answer: E
Q2) Perhaps one of the oldest compositions in Hebrew scripture is A) Psalms.
B) the Trials of Job.
C) the Song of Deborah.
D) the Ten Commandments.
E) the chapter on the Exodus by Moses.
Answer: C
Q3) Persian kings saw themselves as divine.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: The Rise of Greek Civilization,1100-387 BCE
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Q1) The primary requirement for being a Hellene was
A) being a polis citizen.
B) speaking Greek.
C) being a warrior.
D) voting in the assembly.
E) worshipping the Olympian gods.
Answer: B
Q2) Spartan women were
A) given more freedom than women in other poleis in Greece.
B) encouraged to maintain physical health and beauty.
C) able to inherit and own property.
D) allowed to engage in military activities.
E) All of these were true about Spartan women.
Answer: E
Q3) Gender segregation was normal within Greek society.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: From Polis To Cosmopolis: The Hellenistic
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Q1) Who was the historian who wrote most about Alexander's conquests?
A) Livy.
B) Herodotus
C) Plutarch
D) Pindar
E) Nearchus
Q2) In the Hellenistic world,what was the predominant form of government?
A) absolute monarchy
B) oligarchy
C) representative government
D) true democracy
E) empires
Q3) The standard language used for commerce and intellectual discussion in the Hellenistic era was
A) English
B) Aramaic.
C) Koine
D) Demotic.
E) Persian.
Q4) Explain the significance of the Maccabean revolt.
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Chapter 5: The Rise of Rome,753-27 BCE
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Q1) Why is the second of the Punic Wars considered an epic?
Q2) The two powers held by early Roman kings were
A) taxation and dispensing justice.
B) declaring war and dividing the spoils.
C) consulting the gods and leading the army.
D) issuing death sentences and taking a census.
E) None of these.
Q3) What crises faced by Rome led to the development of dictatorships?
Q4) In order to consolidate authority over the territories it had conquered,Rome used all of the following tactics except
A) construction of all-weather military roads.
B) establishment of military colonies at strategic points.
C) conscription of enemies into Roman legions.
D) imposing patron-client relationships with the conquered.
E) allotting land to poor plebeians in military colonies.
Q5) Celts were best known for their fighting style,which contrasted greatly with the Romans' fighting style.
A)True
B)False
Q6) How was religion dealt with in the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire?
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Q1) Why did Hadrian build a wall across Great Britain?
A) To put the army to work to strengthen Roman defenses.
B) As a monument to his reign.
C) To inscribe Roman law for public viewing.
D) To divert their attention from the economic and political crises.
E) An oracle had foretold his death if he did not.
Q2) Why did Christianity have trouble fitting in with the Roman Empire?
Q3) The crucial aspect of ensuring a successor without violating the pretense of being a republic was met by
A) holding an election in the senate and army.
B) automatically picking the most senior senator as the next princeps.
C) passing the title to the emperor's son in his will.
D) making sure a successor was chosen before the current emperor died.
E) None of these.
Q4) How could a person in the provinces be granted Roman citizenship?
A) learning to speak Latin.
B) rejecting Christianity
C) serving in the military for 25 years.
D) settling on latifundia along disputed borders to hold the land.
E) an annual lottery.
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Chapter 7: Late Antiquity,284-527
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Q1) Within Constantine's succession plans,women
A) were not permitted to rule under any circumstances.
B) could rule if they were crowned as Augusta.
C) were not excluded from rule.
D) could rule only as regents for their sons.
E) were only to be consorts to their husbands.
Q2) In the Late Empire,where did most senators live?
A) Rome
B) Constantinople
C) Marseilles
D) provincial villas
E) large urban areas throughout the empire
Q3) Mithraism shared many similarities with Christianity except A) baptism.
B) the December 25 birthday of both religions' leaders.
C) a strong moral code.
D) the exclusion of women.
E) community meals.
Q4) What relationship did Mithraism have with Christianity?
Q5) How did paganism differ from Christianity in late antiquity?
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Q1) The primary language in Islamic intellectual pursuits was
A) Aramaic.
B) Spanish.
C) Latin.
D) Arabic.
E) Persian.
Q2) The Cyrillic alphabet is derived from Greek.
A)True
B)False
Q3) One major sign of Christianity's spread in Rus was
A) peasants wearing crosses instead of pendants to show social rank.
B) arrangements of individual family homes instead of single homesteads.
C) no further engagement in slave trading.
D) burying the dead instead of cremating them.
E) the Byzantine emperor issuing rules on church building.
Q4) What are the origins of the Shiite and Sunni sects?
Q5) The Seljuk Turks moved in to attack the Byzantines and as a result the Byzantine Empire lost its core territory.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: The Kingdoms of Western Europe,500-1000
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Q1) What led to the decline of cities in the seventh and eighth centuries?
A) fear of attack
B) less trade being conducted
C) no centralized government
D) lack of strong public authority
E) All of these.
Q2) Carolingian kings and emperors justified their rule by
A) ministering to a Christian society.
B) attacking Spain to expel the Muslims.
C) attempting to reunify the Eastern and Western churches.
D) launching a campaign to rebuild the entire Roman Empire.
E) claiming divine authority.
Q3) Which was not a source of revenue for monasteries around 1000?
A) animal husbandry
B) agriculture
C) milling
D) mining
E) long-distance trade
Q4) How was trade and commerce different in the Early Middle Ages than during the Roman Empire?
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Chapter 10: The High Middle Ages,1000-1300
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Q1) The scholar who angered the church through his attempts to reconcile logic and faith was
A) Absolom.
B) Abelard.
C) Anselm.
D) Augustine.
E) Aquinas.
Q2) Towns grew fastest in the cities of England.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Towns and trade grew fastest in which region of Europe?
A) England
B) Germany
C) Flanders
D) Spain
E) France
Q4) The Fourth Crusade in 1204 successfully conquered Jerusalem.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What was accomplished by the Crusades? Would you rate them as successful or not?
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Chapter 11: Reversals and Disasters,1300-1450
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Q1) Why did the participation of Joan of Arc on the French side of the Hundred Years' War surprise many people?
Q2) The new type of vessel that helped to facilitate trade in this period was the A) galley ship.
B) longship.
C) cog.
D) schooner.
E) galleon.
Q3) One of the significant weapons used at the Battle of Crécy by the British was the A) crossbow.
B) cannon.
C) longbow.
D) javelin.
E) trebuchet
Q4) How did the differences between the French and English armies compare during the Hundred Years' War?
Q5) What were the economic effects of the Black Death on western Europe at this time?
Q6) Compare the causes and effects of the peasant revolts of the fourteenth century.
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Chapter 12: The Renaissance in Italy and Northern
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Q1) The maritime republics of Venice and Genoa went to war with each other four times over
A) claims of territory for trade.
B) monopolies on certain luxury goods.
C) refusal to engage in price-setting accords.
D) trying to undercut one another in Constantinople.
E) being the chief purveyor of goods to the papacy.
Q2) Basil II of Russia achieved political stability after A) expelling the Mongols from Russia.
B) expelling the Tatars (Golden Horde).
C) quelling attacks from the Hanseatic League.
D) suppressing civil wars brought on by his family's challenge to his rule.
E) accepting Roman Catholicism instead of Eastern Orthodoxy.
Q3) What led to the dramatic rise of literacy,particularly in Italy,in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
Q4) How did Moscow rise to prominence in the Russian kingdom after the Mongol decline?
Q5) The power of combining Poland and Lithuania defeated the Teutonic Knights. A)True B)False
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Chapter 13: Europes Age of Expansion, 1450 1550
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Q1) Hernán Cortés led the conquest of the Inca Empire.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why did serfdom in Western Europe disappear after the fourteenth century?
A) Labor was scarce.
B) New laws converted serfs to peasants.
C) The Church declared serfdom a sin.
D) There was a large rise in slavery to replace serfdom.
E) Agriculture was no longer the primary economic model in western Europe.
Q3) Henry VII (Tudor)attempted to ally with Spain through which method?
A) Issuing a decree against Protestantism in support of the Church.
B) Expelling Jews from England after 1492.
C) Supporting the war effort against France.
D) Negotiating a marriage between his daughter to the Scots king.
E) Agreeing to import goods only from Spanish trade contracts.
Q4) Guild work was open to both men and women.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How did European exploration lead to imperialism?
Q6) How did shared technology and ideas advance world exploration?
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Q1) The four major points that separated Martin Luther from the Catholic Church included his opinions on all of these except
A) salvation through faith alone.
B) the priesthood of all believers.
C) the necessity of sacraments.
D) the role of the pope.
E) the authority of the Bible.
Q2) All of the following were seen as results of the Reformation movements except
A) increased literacy.
B) better living conditions for women.
C) social networks for the poor provided by municipal governments.
D) increased anti-Semitism.
E) changing standards of family living.
Q3) Most Calvinists in France were from which of the following backgrounds?
A) poor peasants.
B) wealthy tradesmen.
C) urban middle class.
D) nobility.
E) underground Lutherans.
Q4) How did the Reformation in England differ from that of continental Europe?
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Chapter 15: A Century of Crisis,1550-1650
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Q1) England's first joint-stock company formed a colony in
A) Virginia.
B) Barbados.
C) Calcutta.
D) Goa.
E) Haiti.
Q2) What religion were the Polish Cossacks trying to protect?
A) Catholicism
B) Judaism
C) Protestantism
D) Russian Orthodoxy
E) Ukrainian Uniate
Q3) The majority of witchcraft trials were held in
A) the Holy Roman Empire.
B) England.
C) France.
D) Spain.
E) Russia.
Q4) How did the nature of war change over the course of the seventeenth century?
Q5) How did the division of the Habsburg Empire change the Holy Roman Empire?
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Chapter 16: State-Building and the European State
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Q1) Louis XIV of France was in favor of a policy of religious toleration to end internal dissent in France.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In his attempt to control the nobility,Peter the Great
A) disbanded the Imperial Diet.
B) outlawed serfdom.
C) implemented a Table of Ranks.
D) required his nobility to obtain a university education.
E) created a new nobility of the sword.
Q3) Why did Louis XIV start a war with the Netherlands in 1672?
A) He wanted to conquer the territory.
B) He wanted to enforce Catholicism.
C) The Dutch threatened his colonial holdings in North America.
D) He objected to their domination of trade and shipping in Europe.
E) He was allied with Spain through marriage to his wife, which was at war with the Dutch Republic.
Q4) The Treaty of Carlowitz united Hungary with the Habsburg territory.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 17: The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment,1550-1790
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Q1) Most of the early scientists in the Scientific Revolution refused any royal patronage for fear of losing their autonomy in discoveries.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Why was New Science considered revolutionary and how did it constitute a new shift in intellectual thinking?
Q3) Denis Diderot believed that all human knowledge could be compiled and catalogued into an encyclopedia.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The scientist who conducted his own dissection of corpses during anatomy lectures was
A) Andreas Vesalius.
B) Galen.
C) William Harvey.
D) Ptolemy.
E) Leonardo Da Vinci.
Q5) How did Montesquieu suggest that the ideal form of government could be achieved?
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Chapter 18: Trade and Empire,1700-1800
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Q1) Josiah Wedgewood was instrumental in the mass production of A) porcelain goods.
B) clothing.
C) shoes.
D) farming implements.
E) furniture.
Q2) What were the reasons for the growth of privacy in the eighteenth century?
A) A growing sense of individualism as a result of Enlightenment thoughts
B) Religion's emphasis on greater modesty
C) Emulating the examples of wealthy people who could afford their own private spaces
D) Decreased emphasis on communal activities such as eating or sharing quarters
E) All of these
Q3) What was the most significant change in eighteenth-century warfare that lessened the devastation on Europe?
Q4) What advancements or accomplishments fueled the agricultural changes in the eighteenth century? Why were they considered so revolutionary?
Q5) What social and economic conditions propelled and increased the use of slavery in the Americas in the eighteenth century?
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Chapter 19: Revolutionary France and Napoleonic
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Q1) The attempt to take Russia in 1812 cost Napoleon 85% of his troops.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Trace the evolution of the National Assembly's issuance of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.Why was this document originally perceived as insufficient?
Q3) In what sense did Napoleon's rise to power represent the best of the possibilities offered by the Revolution?
Q4) In order to compromise regarding citizenship,the Assembly classified whom as "active" citizens?
A) members of the sans culottes
B) men and women over the age of 25
C) all men over age 25
D) men who owned or controlled property
E) men who were employed
Q5) What effect did the unification of European alliances against Napoleon and France have in the wars between 1805-1814?
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Q6) What were the principal points dividing the Mountain and the Girondins in the radical phase of the Revolution?
Chapter 20: Restoration and Reform: Conservative and Liberal
Europe,1814-1847
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Q1) The primary motivation for Belgian independence was A) nationalism.
B) religious differences with the Netherlands.
C) restrictions on free-market trade.
D) seeking a constitution and parliament as a satellite nation under Prussian domain.
E) rejection of the Congress System.
Q2) The most extreme political conservative of the post-Napoleonic period was
A) Edmund Burke.
B) Adam Mickiewicz.
C) Joseph de Maistre.
D) Robert Castlereagh.
E) Jeremy Bentham.
Q3) The Corn Laws in Britain were intended to
A) reduce the price of grain for the poor.
B) limit the amount of grain purchased by any one merchant.
C) promote capitalist agriculture.
D) protect British farmers from foreign competition.
E) reduce the use of potatoes as a staple crop.
Q4) By nineteenth-century standards,why was the French Revolution seen as a failure?
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Chapter 21: Industrialization and Society,1800-1850
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Q1) To avoid the kind of working-class discontent seen in England,European nations took preventive action in all of the following ways except
A) imposition of child labor laws.
B) actively building and promoting railroads.
C) providing unemployment insurance for workers.
D) government-regulated working conditions.
E) protective tariffs to discourage importation of goods.
Q2) The most significant effect of industrialization throughout Europe was A) capitalism.
B) impoverishment of the working class.
C) improved communication.
D) urbanization.
E) the creation of the middle classes.
Q3) How did the emergence of class consciousness in the nineteenth century transform European society?
Q4) French industrialization was concentrated in the region of Marseille for access to sea transport.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: The Triumph of the Nation-State,1848-1900
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Q1) Russian was the primary language of instruction in Polish schools in the nineteenth century.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the late nineteenth century educational reforms,new institutions of higher learning placed emphasis on which of the following?
A) languages
B) national history
C) ethnology
D) science and mathematics
E) political science
Q3) The first European nation to recognize workers' demands for unemployment and retirement was
A) France.
B) Sweden.
C) Germany.
D) England.
E) Italy.
Q4) How did nationalism contribute to the growth of racism in the nineteenth century?
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Chapter 23: The Culture of Industrial Europe,1850-1914
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Q1) The artist who blurred the lines between art and advertising was
A) Honoré Daumier.
B) Edouard Manet.
C) Claude Monet.
D) Toulouse Lautrec.
E) Auguste Renoir.
Q2) Charles Darwin's main contribution to the scientific field was the idea of evolution.
A)True
B)False
Q3) How did psychology develop in the nineteenth century,and why did the questions of human mental functioning emerge as it did?
Q4) Which of the following factors accounted for the doubling of the European population in the nineteenth century?
A) Fewer epidemics
B) Improvements in the health sciences
C) Lack of widespread wars
D) Better nutrition
E) All of these
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Chapter 24: The Age of Imperialism,1870-1914
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Q1) For Germany,colonies in the Pacific and Africa did not make economic sense.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Compare European imperialism in French North Africa and the Belgian Congo.How were these colonies integrated as part of the home country's political,economic,and cultural life?
Q3) Why was the Dutch example in Indonesia different than imperialism practiced by the French or British in Asia?
Q4) As a result of the Sepoy Rebellion,the British
A) tightened their administration with English civil servants.
B) deployed British-only troops against the Muslim factions.
C) demobilized the Sepoy unit and gave them home rule.
D) allowed members of the Indian upper class to serve in civil service positions.
E) None of these.
Q5) Analyze the reasons and motivations for imperialism.What are the weaknesses and strengths of these ideas?
Q6) German colonies in Africa failed to bring either political or economic benefit. A)True B)False
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Chapter 25: War and Revolution,1900-1918
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Q1) Why was Italy looked at as a "junior" partner in the Triple Alliance? What did Italy bring to the partnership?
Q2) Movement in the war on the Western front was halted largely because of trench warfare.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Triple Alliance was a coalition among which countries?
A) England, France, and Germany
B) England, Italy, and Russia
C) Russia, Germany, and Austria
D) Austria, Germany, and Italy
E) Austria, England, and France
Q4) What were the terms of the Treaty of Versailles that made it ineffective or incomplete in terms of neutralizing the events of the war?
Q5) How did technology change the way war was waged in World War I?
Q6) The primary event that sparked the beginning of World War I was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 26: A Decade of Revolutionary Experiments,1918-1929
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Q1) How did family life change under the Bolshevik regime?
A) There was freer access to divorce.
B) The family was promoted as the foundation of social stability.
C) Marriages shifted to civil services rather than religious services.
D) Child care institutions were created by the state for the benefit of working women.
E) All of these
Q2) What was the Soviet Union's perception of religion?
A) It opposed the Orthodox church for their possession of property and wealth.
B) They viewed religion as a distraction from current social problems.
C) Organized religion was seen as irrational and superstitious.
D) They objected to the Church's acceptance that social inequality was the way of life.
E) All of these.
Q3) Alexandra Kollontai's radicalism included her idea of eliminating the institution of marriage and traditional family structures.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How was popular entertainment seen as an expression of reaction to the war?
Q5) How did women benefit from the changes in Soviet society?
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Chapter 27: Democracy Under Siege,1929-1945
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Q1) Churchill,Stalin,and Roosevelt met during the war to discuss postwar goals.The most important of these was the conference at
A) Teheran.
B) Yalta.
C) Crete.
D) Kiev.
E) Beirut.
Q2) In Spain and Austria in the early 1930s,both governments replaced democratically elected leaders with what alternative?
A) Socialist leaders.
B) Conservative Catholic regimes.
C) Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
D) Fascist leaders.
E) Monarchist leaders.
Q3) Lodz,Poland had the largest Jewish population of any European city.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How did political responses vary to the Great Depression in Europe?
Q5) Explain the rise to power of Hitler and the Nazi Party.
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Chapter 28: Europe Divided,1945-1968
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Q1) What was remarkable about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
A) It established a code of allowable war tactics when UN intervention had failed.
B) It provided an internationally binding code of civil rights.
C) It allowed citizens to hold their governments accountable for human rights violations.
D) It established a court for the trials of Nazi war criminals.
E) It set fundamental guidelines for treatment of prisoners of war.
Q2) The first superpower confrontation over decolonized territory was in A) Cuba.
B) North Korea.
C) China.
D) Vietnam.
E) India.
Q3) Gamal Abdel Nasser oversaw what decolonization confrontation?
A) He formed the Palestine Liberation Organization.
B) He was the first president of Iran.
C) He nationalized the Suez Canal on behalf of Egypt.
D) He was a Berber leader in Algeria.
E) He formed OPEC.
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Q1) As part of Cold War suspicions,what was the American interpretation of the USSR invasion of Afghanistan?
A) Saw it as an attempt to expand Communist influence into central Asia.
B) Viewed American policies as weak in not declaring war.
C) Moved American missiles in western Europe to Defcon 1.
D) Read it as a challenge to the balance of power in the Persian Gulf.
E) Saw a massive conspiracy between Islamic fundamentalists allying with hardline communists.
Q2) What was the meaning of the term "Velvet Revolution"?
Q3) What was the difference between glasnost and perestroika as proposed by Gorbachev?
Q4) The Velvet Revolution brought down the communist Czechoslovakian government. A)True B)False
Q5) The effect of popular culture helped to transmit greater acceptance of A) homosexuality.
B) sexual freedom.
C) religious alternatives.
D) consumer lifestyles.
E) all of these.
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Q1) Václav Havel oversaw the peaceful dismantling of which former Communist territory?
A) Romania
B) Czechoslovakia
C) Vojvodina
D) Armenia
E) None of these.
Q2) Explain the origin of the policy of ethnic cleansing in the former Yugolav nations.
Q3) The Gulf War was started by the United States to
A) eliminate Saddam Hussein.
B) make Iraq pay because it was responsible for the 9/11 attacks on New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania.
C) force Iraq's removal from Kuwait.
D) gain revenge on Iraq for disobeying UN directives.
E) acquire new territory.
Q4) How have concerns about the environment been raised in globalized political entities and in international diplomatic debates?
Q5) Analyze the political trends in postcommunist eastern Europe.
Q6) Why is the admission of Turkey into the EU considered a problem?
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