1
An important agreement at _____________(2 words) in 1944 created international institutions like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank that would try to guide global economic development. (p.924)
2
The US entry into the "Korean War" in 1950 where 53,000 US soldiers were ultimately killed in the fighting was called a _________(2 words, p.927-8)
3
Russian dissident (look it up) who survived Stalin's forced labor camps and wrote a devastating account of them in his book "The Gulag Archipelago" published in 1973. (p.921)
4
In 1961, he warned the US of the dangers of the emerging "military-industrial complex" (meaning that the need for ever-increasing profits in businesses supplying military needs would keep creating the demand for their supply of services = a steady supply of international "conflicts" . He was the #1 leader of US forces in WW2 and one of the most popular & effective presidents ever. p.944)
5
India, Egypt, Indonesia, Ghana, and Yugoslavia formed an alternative to the Cold War polarity in their group of ___________Nations. (p.943
6
"One is not born a woman, one becomes one." (2 words, p.939)
7
During the Cold War Period (1946-1989) the conflicts in small places like Korea, Vietnam and elsewhere exploited as opportunities for the Super Powers (US & USSR) to challenge each other. These kinds of puppet wars where the Superpowers pulled all the strings are called ______. (p.918)
8
Right after WW2 in 1946, he coined the phrase "Iron Curtain" to describe the aggressive steps the Soviets were taking to control Eastern Europe. (p.914)
9
This gregarious (look it up) and gifted Russian premier brought a temporary "thaw" to Cold War relations after the death of Stalin. He gave a famous "secret speech" in 1956 acknowledging the suffering Stalin's reign had inflicted. (p.919)
10
The Treaty of Rome forming the ECC in 1957 was about European ________ integration. (p.924)
11
The German chancellor who worked diligently to overcome his country's centuries-old hostility toward France. (p.925)
12
In the writing of the existential philosopher, Sartre, the mass of people who evade the burden of thinking, feeling and deciding for themselves in order to create genuine meaning in their lives is called _____(2 words, p.939)
13
The US Secretary of State who got the US to provide hefty funding for the European Recovery Program following the devastation of WW2. (p.916)
14
By 1953, the newly developed and tested hydrogen bomb was this many times more explosive than the plutonium bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (p.917)
15
The French government's use of torture in their war to control this colony in the early 1960's divided France and brought down its then current government. (p.937)
16
He wrote plays in 1960's movement called "theater of the absurd" (like, "Waiting for Godot") in which characters talk in banal cliches, they are paralyzed by the absurdities of modern life, and nothing ever happens. (p.940)
17
Kurt Vonnegut's novel, "Slaughterhouse-Five" portrayed the devastating results of the US decision to drop thousands of "firebombs" on this non-strategic German city in 1945. (p.912)
18
Black poet from the French island of Martinique argued "negritude" or "black consciousness" (getting in touch with African cultural roots) was the only answer to racism. (p.938)
19
He was the US Secretary of State who in 1946 formulated the US policy of "containment" of Soviet expansion. (p.919)
20
This member of the "Frankfort School" of social philosophy argued that the "culture industry" (mass media/marketing/consumer capitalism) has numbed the masses and crippled democracy. (p.940)
21
Implementing Keynesian ideas, he coined the phrase "welfare state" in 1951 and helped Britain establish its current medical, educational and employment "entitlements" programs. (p.925)
22
In the book about the trial of the Nazi concentration camp leader, Eichmann in Jerusalem (1963) she argued it was evidence of the new "banality of evil. "(banal means that something has become ordinary,everyday, routine to the point of being a meaningless cliche. p.940)
23
He was an agent for the Gestapo in France responsible for personally torturing and killing French civilians in response to the resistance and for sending off on trains thousands of Jewish women and children to the death camps. Rather than let him be tried for war crimes by the French, the US recruited him as an agent in the war on communism. (p.942)
24
In his book "Wretched of the Earth" (1961), this black intellectual also from the French island of Martinique argued that "black consciousness" was not the answer to the problem of racism. He said that only radical social change due to the violent uprising of the poorest peasants was needed. (p.938)
25
"Talkin' World War 3 Blues" (1963)
26
After WW2, he led China in its communist revolution. (p.927)
27
Supporting the Allies during WW2 but rejected by them afterward, he led the communist guerrilla-fighting resistance movement against the French imperialists in Indochina (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos).
