TBQ 2 Flashcards
What was the doctrine that eased Cold War tensions in the 1970s?
Détente
What ultimately sealed Jimmy Carter’s defeat in the 1980 presidential election?
His inability to gain the release of American hostages held in Iran
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.
d.
expansion of job programs to put people back to work.
Which American president called the Soviet Union an “evil empire?”?
Ronald Reagan
Which American president journeyed to the People’s Republic of China in 1972?
Richard Nixon
What was the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?
The improvement of communications between the U.S. and Soviet Union to prevent nuclear war
In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Nationalist government fled to
Taiwan
How did Truman and his Western European allies respond to Stalin’s blockade of Berlin in 1948?
Airlifting supplies into Berlin
What is an example of the relaxation of repressive Stalinism during Khrushchev’s regime?
The publication of Solzhenitsyn’s A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
What is NATO?
A military alliance
Hitler’s first act of aggression took place in 1936 when the Germans occupied what area?
Rhineland
What was the chief argument between Truman and Stalin at Potsdam in July of 1945?
Free elections in eastern Europe
Which ethnic group was relocated to internment camps for the duration of the war in the United States?
Japanese and Japanese Americans
The United States dropped atomic bombs on which two Japanese cities?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
What did Hitler’s “Final Solution” to the Jewish problem call for?
The extermination of all European Jews
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
A disillusionment with Western Civilization provoked by the horrors of the World War I
In 1926 Mussolini’s government
outlawed all anti-Fascist parties.
What was true of the Nazi policy toward women?
Nazi policy encouraged women to focus on having children and on domestic life.
At the core of Hitler’s ideas was
racism.
Much of Europe’s prosperity in the 1920s was built on ____.
loans from the United States
What did the United States Senate vote to do after World War I?
Reject the Versailles Treaty that Wilson had negotiated
Under Lenin’s direction, the Bolsheviks became a party devoted to
violent revolution.
What was a consequence of the Treaty of Versailles?
It forced Germany to acknowledge “war guilt” and to pay reparations for its alleged wartime aggression.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, socialist labor movements
had grown more powerful.
Who was V.I. Lenin?
A leader of the Bolsheviks who promised “peace and bread”
