Week 10

Question 1

Western Europeans complained bat the “Americanization” of Europe that popular culture represented. But that trend started to reverse w/ the _________ of the 1960’s.

Answer 1

• British invasion

Question 2

One invention that helped further the spread of popular music in the 1950’s and 1960’s was:

Answer 2

• transistor radios

Question 3

Political unrest in Eastern Europe was sparked by the rise of powerful Polish labor union, which organized strikes and threatened to bring down the communist gov.

Answer 3

• Solidarity

Question 4

To what does the term Velvet Divorce refer to?

Answer 4

• collapse of Czechoslovakia into the separate nations of the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Question 5

The availability of oral contraceptives greatly affected the birth rate in the West in the 1960’s. True or False?

Answer 5

• False

Question 6

By the 1960’s, one segment of the labor force that had expanded significantly in Western Europe was:

Answer 6

• government workers

Question 7

While many Western countries condemned the war in Vietnam, student protests remained an exclusively American method of challenging government decisions. True or False?

Answer 7

• False

Question 8

One of the contributing factors to the “sexual revolution” in the West in the 1960’s and 1970’s as the ready availability of:

Answer 8

• oral contraceptives

Question 9

In 1968 the SU and the Warsaw Pact violently crushed a democratic movement in Eastern Europe known as the:

Answer 9

• Prague Spring

Question 10

To what other yr, packed w/ dramatic events and uncertainty, has 1968 frequently been compared?

Answer 10

• 1848, with its wave of widespread, idealistic, but ultimately failed revolutions