HIEU390 Quiz 7.docx

Quiz: The Cold War Module 7: Week 7. Question 1 1.25 / 1.25 pts Who authored The Second Sex, a book that mobilized women's rights movements in both the United States and Europe? Hélène Cixous Diane Russell Simone de Beauvoir Judith Butler Wendy Brown Question 2 1.25 / 1.25 pts Which Eastern European nation broke with the Soviet Union in 1948 and built an economy in which the private sector coexisted with state planning? Yugoslavia East Germany Poland Romania Bulgaria

Question 3 1.25 / 1.25 pts What was a reform that Pope John XXIII's Vatican II council introduced into the Catholic Church? allowing the Mass to be said in local languages instead of Latin alone making changes in the Church's dogma about marriage recognizing the Church's failure when confronted with the Holocaust appointing more cardinals from European nations renewing the Counter Reformation Question 4 1.25 / 1.25 pts What nation developed the strongest economy in the Soviet Union's eastern bloc during the post-war period, despite many citizens fleeing for better opportunities? East Germany Romania Poland Yugoslavia Czechoslovakia Question 5 1.25 / 1.25 pts

The most dramatic post-war trial for war crimes took place in what German city in 1945? Berlin Bonn Nuremberg Munich Dresden Question 6 1.25 / 1.25 pts The United States joined the members of the Pact of Brussels to form what organization, in which members agreed to defend any signatory that was attacked? the United Nations the League of Nations the European Economic Community the Warsaw Pact NATO Question 7 1.25 / 1.25 pts Which American product or company became the most controversial object of concerns about post-war American influence in Europe?

McDonald's Starbucks Ford trucks Coca-Cola Budweiser Question 8 1.25 / 1.25 pts Upon what did Joseph Stalin insist before agreeing to the creation of the United Nations? control over the finances of the organization that the UN headquarters would be placed in Moscow statements that communism was an acceptable form of government an agreement to limit capitalism in Eastern Europe a permanent seat on the Security Council, guaranteeing veto power Question 9 1.25 / 1.25 pts Who authored The Plague, a novel that epitomized the new French thinking about personal responsibility and moral choice outside existing systems?

Albert Camus Meursault Frantz Fanon Maurice Merleau-Ponty Simone de Beauvoir Incorrect Question 10 0 / 1.25 pts Why was British economic recovery slower than that of France or West Germany? The cost of maintaining the British Empire weighed on the domestic economy. British welfare costs were higher than those of France. British citizens paid proportionally higher taxes than French or German citizens. The United Kingdom had a large trade surplus with the United States, which kept the value of the pound too high. The United Kingdom spent 25 percent of its national budget on the military. Question 11 1.25 / 1.25 pts What was established in 1958 with six member nations with the goal of eliminating trade barriers?

the European Economic Community the Maastricht Treaty Euratom Western Union the Schengen Convention Question 12 1.25 / 1.25 pts Under Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet foreign policy in the Third World followed what aim? acquiring raw materials to rebuild Soviet industry finding markets in which to sell goods produced in the Soviet Union finding military bases to deter the United States acquiring immigrant labor to work in Soviet industry detaching countries from the direct influence of the United States Incorrect Question 13 0 / 1.25 pts Why did members of the French right support Charles de Gaulle's demand for a new French constitution? They wanted to increase the power of the presidency.

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