Week 9

Question 1

2 of the most influential international agencies, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, were designed to support a stable economic landscape and were established at a 1944 conference in:

Answer 1

• Bretton Woods

Question 2

In the late 1940’s and with the acquiescience of Britain, the Afrikaner gov. of South Africa instituted its racial policy known as:

Answer 2

• apartheid

Question 3

Communism spread throughout Eastern Europe in the aftermath of WWII bc of Soviet occupation, but communism took control of _________ in the late 1940’s revolution.

Answer 3

• China

Question 4

Although all of Western Europe experienced economic recovery in the post-WWII yrs, one country in particular, _______, had a spectacular recovery and experienced remarkable growth rates.

Answer 4

• West Germany

Question 5

The US didn’t offer the SU an opportunity to participate in the Marshall Plan. True or False?

Answer 5

• False

Question 6

The leasing feminist theorist of the mid-twentieth century, Simone de Beaver, wrote in The Second Sex that:

Answer 6

• “One is not born a woman, one becomes one”

Question 7

To what does the term “Iron Curtain” refer?

Answer 7

• nickname given by Winston Churchill to the line separating Soviet-dominated Europe from capitalist Europe

Question 8

In a 1947 speech to Congress, Pres. Harry S Truman set out his policy of support for the resistance of “free peoples” to communism by trying politics to economics; it would be a choice btw “2 ways of life”

Answer 8

• Truman Doctrine

Question 9

In 1955 the SU and its allies in Eastern Europe responded to the formation of NATO w/ the:

Answer 9

• Warsaw Pact

Question 10

British system of social welfare was grounded in the economic theories of:

Answer 10

• John Maynard Keynes