TBQ 2

Question 1

What was the doctrine that eased Cold War tensions in the 1970s?

Answer 1

Détente

Question 2

What ultimately sealed Jimmy Carter’s defeat in the 1980 presidential election?

Answer 2

His inability to gain the release of American hostages held in Iran

Question 3

The “Reagan Revolution” included all of these new policies EXCEPT
cut-backs in spending on school lunch programs.

b.
hefty increases in the military budget.

c.
escalating levels of government spending.

d.
expansion of job programs to put people back to work.

e.
reductions in food stamps.

Answer 3

d.
expansion of job programs to put people back to work.

Question 4

Which American president called the Soviet Union an “evil empire?”?

Answer 4

Ronald Reagan

Question 5

Which American president journeyed to the People’s Republic of China in 1972?

Answer 5

Richard Nixon

Question 6

What was the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?

Answer 6

The improvement of communications between the U.S. and Soviet Union to prevent nuclear war

Question 7

In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalist government fled to

Answer 7

Taiwan

Question 8

How did Truman and his Western European allies respond to Stalin’s blockade of Berlin in 1948?

Answer 8

Airlifting supplies into Berlin

Question 9

What is an example of the relaxation of repressive Stalinism during Khrushchev’s regime?

Answer 9

The publication of Solzhenitsyn’s A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Question 10

What is NATO?

Answer 10

A military alliance

Question 11

Hitler’s first act of aggression took place in 1936 when the Germans occupied what area?

Answer 11

Rhineland

Question 12

What was the chief argument between Truman and Stalin at Potsdam in July of 1945?

Answer 12

Free elections in eastern Europe

Question 13

Which ethnic group was relocated to internment camps for the duration of the war in the United States?

Answer 13

Japanese and Japanese Americans

Question 14

The United States dropped atomic bombs on which two Japanese cities?

Answer 14

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Question 15

What did Hitler’s “Final Solution” to the Jewish problem call for?

Answer 15

The extermination of all European Jews

Question 16

What did the artistic and intellectual trends of the inter-war years reflect?

A realistic forms of art, as with the Dadaists

b.
A disillusionment with Western Civilization provoked by the horrors of the World War I

c.
An acceptance of modern art forms, especially in Germany and Russia

d.
A rejection of the avant-garde

e.
A rediscovery of Romantic Realism as the major art movement in the West

Answer 16

A disillusionment with Western Civilization provoked by the horrors of the World War I

Question 17

In 1926 Mussolini’s government

Answer 17

outlawed all anti-Fascist parties.

Question 18

What was true of the Nazi policy toward women?

Answer 18

Nazi policy encouraged women to focus on having children and on domestic life.

Question 19

At the core of Hitler’s ideas was

Answer 19

racism.

Question 20

Much of Europe’s prosperity in the 1920s was built on ____.

Answer 20

loans from the United States

Question 21

What did the United States Senate vote to do after World War I?

Answer 21

Reject the Versailles Treaty that Wilson had negotiated

Question 22

Under Lenin’s direction, the Bolsheviks became a party devoted to

Answer 22

violent revolution.

Question 23

What was a consequence of the Treaty of Versailles?

Answer 23

It forced Germany to acknowledge “war guilt” and to pay reparations for its alleged wartime aggression.

Question 24

At the beginning of the twentieth century, socialist labor movements

Answer 24

had grown more powerful.

Question 25

Who was V.I. Lenin?

Answer 25

A leader of the Bolsheviks who promised “peace and bread”