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Week Thirteen Quiz

 

1.
Question 1
According to the presentation, the “Great Disruption” of 1968 is best explained by which of the following?

1 point

  • Hypothesis #1: China and the rest
  • Hypothesis #2: Living on the quiet volcano
  • Hypothesis #3: Students
  • Hypothesis #4: American turmoil + Vietnam as a catalyst
  • None of the above provides a full explanation of the events of 1968. Some combination of the above, along with perhaps new analysis, is necessary to get a fuller explanation of the “Great Disruption.”

2.
Question 2
According to the presentation, which of the following resulted from the turmoil of 1968 in the United States?

1 point

  • The United States government decided to end its involvement in the Vietnam War in 1968.
  • The United States government sharply reduced spending on programs to alleviate poverty and on government aid to students.
  • President Lyndon Johnson won reelection in 1968 on the strength of his promise to end American involvement in Vietnam by 1969.
  • The fear and unrest of 1968 helped to bring about the election of Richard Nixon, a candidate who promised law and order.

3.
Question 3
According to the presentation, which of the following best defines the “Brezhnev Doctrine”?

1 point

  • The Brezhnev Doctrine called for stronger ties between China and the USSR, as leaders of the worldwide communist revolution.
  • The Brezhnev Doctrine stated that the USSR would not intervene in the internal affairs of Soviet bloc countries.
  • The Brezhnev Doctrine asserted that Soviet bloc countries would not be allowed to leave the Soviet bloc or shift toward political or economic liberalization opposed by the Soviet Union.
  • The Brezhnev Doctrine allowed for political and economic self-determination by the constituent states of the Soviet bloc.

4.
Question 4
According to the presentation, the “opening” between the United States and China in the early 1970s was the result of which of the following?

1 point

  • Richard Nixon persuaded Mao Zedong to establish better diplomatic terms by threatening American reprisal if Mao refused.
  • After years of worsening relations with the USSR, Mao began to view the United States as a less dangerous enemy than the USSR and moved toward better relations with the Americans.
  • The overthrow of Mao Zedong’s leadership in China in 1971 brought a more pragmatic Chinese government to power, which hoped to achieve relaxed tensions with the United States in order to focus on domestic economic growth.
  • After the excesses of the Cultural Revolution, Mao Zedong wanted the help of the United States in establishing a managed capitalist economy in China.

5.
Question 5
According to the presentation, which of the following contributed to the “great inflation” of the 1970s?

1 point

  • Significant governmental spending to combat unemployment and increase social welfare, with the expectation that higher inflation was the necessary companion to lower rates of unemployment
  • Spikes in oil prices that sent consumer prices skyrocketing in oil importing countries
  • The end of the gold-dollar standard of the Bretton Woods system and the development of an unpredictable exchange rate regime
  • Continued high levels of defense spending in places like the United States, while simultaneously attempting to spend more money to alleviate broad social problems
  • All of the above

6.
Question 6
According to the presentation, the high oil prices of the 1970s tended to benefit the USSR. While the United States was mainly an importer of oil and suffered from inflationary shocks, the USSR produced a great deal of oil and was able to use increased oil revenues to subsidize Warsaw Pact countries and import goods for domestic consumption.

1 point

  • False
  • True

7.
Question 7
According to the presentation, U.S. President Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy approach was notable for its unusual emphasis on which of the following?

1 point

  • Economic cooperation between the superpowers
  • Détente
  • Human rights
  • Realpolitik
  • Containment

8.
Question 8
According to the presentation, the late 1970s saw a resurgence in the West of which political family?

1 point

  • Communism
  • Liberalism
  • National conservatism
  • Fascism
  • Democratic socialism

9.
Question 9
According to Milton Friedman, who were the real conservatives in the United States during the 1970s?

1 point

  • New Deal “liberals,” because they were trying to conserve the big-government status quo
  • Republicans, because they were the party of business
  • Republicans, because they were the party of traditional limited government
  • Democrats, because they were the party of segregation

10.
Question 10
According to the presentation, why was the Soviet installation of SS-20 intermediate-range missiles targeting Western Europe problematic for West European leaders in the 1980s? Choose all that apply.

1 point

  • Widespread debate erupted over the wisdom of allowing an American counter-deployment of new U.S. missiles to Germany and other European states.
  • The Soviet deployment of these missiles weakened the credibility of the European threat of escalation to nuclear warfare if the Soviet Union and its allies launched a conventional war in Europe, since it was argued that the SS-20 missiles would give the USSR a powerful ability to dominate any nuclear war limited to Europe.
  • Part of the settlement of the Cuban Missile Crisis was that the United States promised never again to place long-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe.
  • The security of the United States might become “decoupled” from that of Western Europe, because the Soviet deployment spotlighted the credibility of the American threat that it would, to help defend Europe, escalate to a global nuclear war involving both the Soviet and American homelands.

11.
Question 11
According to the presentation, Chinese leaders finally decided to adopt a Soviet-style approach to economic and political organization after the death of Mao Zedong, as the chosen response to the revolutionary excesses of the Cultural Revolution.

1 point

  • True
  • False

12.
Question 12
According to the presentation, which Asian country had the highest GDP per capita in 1976?

1 point

  • South Korea
  • Taiwan
  • China
  • North Korea
  • Japan

13.
Question 13
According to the presentation, which of the following was a characteristic of the traditional gold exchange standard? Choose all that apply.

1 point

  • High capital mobility
  • Low capital mobility
  • Stable exchange rates
  • Unstable exchange rates
  • Monetary independence
  • Monetary interdependence

14.
Question 14
According to the presentation, which of the following was a characteristic of the Bretton Woods economic system? Choose all that apply.

1 point

  • High capital mobility
  • Low capital mobility
  • Stable exchange rates
  • Unstable exchange rates
  • Monetary independence
  • Monetary interdependence

15.
Question 15
According to the presentation, which of the following was a characteristic of the “World Money 3.0” system taking shape by the end of the 1970s and early 1980s? Choose all that apply.

1 point

  • High capital mobility
  • Low capital mobility
  • Managed exchange rates
  • Unstable exchange rates
  • Monetary independence
  • Monetary interdependence

16.
Question 16
According to the presentation, Soviet per capita GDP growth did which of the following between 1976 and 1986? Choose all that apply.

1 point

  • Increased relative to South Korea
  • Decreased relative to Japan
  • Decreased relative to Western Europe
  • Decreased relative to the United States
  • Increased relative to Japan

17.
Question 17
“Glasnost” is best defined by which of the following English-language words?

1 point

  • Openness
  • Retrenchment
  • Re-engagement
  • Revolution
  • Restructuring

18.
Question 18
According to the presentation, which of the following best describes the views of Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev during the middle and late 1980s?

1 point

  • Gorbachev sought reduced tensions with the West as a means of focusing on the political and economic openness and restructuring he was hoping to undertake domestically, an agenda that he shared with others in the Soviet government and military.
  • Gorbachev sought a renewed confrontation with the United States as a test of Soviet culture and military strength.
  • Gorbachev sought domestic reform in the Soviet Union, but he was unable to find any allies in the Soviet government or military and was forced by hardliners into a renewed confrontation with the United States.
  • Gorbachev’s stated goal upon taking office was the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the creation of a Russian Federation that would be politically and economically stronger without the burden of the satellite republics.

19.
Question 19
According to the presentation, the Two Plus Four Treaty and use of Article 23 in West Germany’s Basic Law resulted in a merger of East and West Germany and the creation of an entirely new kind of German republic, one with a new constitution, new governing structure, and new currency.

1 point

  • True
  • False

20.
Question 20
According to the presentation, which of these dates does the professor prefer for determining when the Cold War ended?

1 point

  • 1985-86, with the rise to power of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union
  • 1988-1989, with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet refusal to intervene militarily in Poland, Hungary, or Leipzig
  • 1990, with the unification of Germany and the signing of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), along with the continued self-determination of nations in Eastern Europe
  • 1991, with the breakup of the Soviet Union

 

 

 

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