WH Ch 20 Review: Life During the Cold War

In a ___________________, the government provides all citizens with health care and supports the unemployed.

• republic

• welfare state

• conservative government

• liberal government

What helped to create the baby boom in the late 1940s and early 1950s?

• The government offered tax incentives to families who had children.

• Many women who left the workforce to provide jobs to soldiers returning from World War II became mothers.

• Women were eager to fulfill traditional roles.

• The economy went into a decline, and women had no other choice but to stay home and become mothers.

The term detente refers to

• U.S. foreign policies relating to Japan after World War II.

• improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

• the drafting of a new constitution in France under Charles de Gaulle.

• Canada’s program of industrialization directed by Pierre Trudeau.

After the second world war, many European countries recovered in part as a result of the strategies of

• Socialism

• Communism

• the Marshall Plan

• Thatcherism

After the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, _____________________ became leader of the Soviet Union.

• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

• Władysław Gomułka

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Nikita Khrushchev

How was the Soviet Union under Leonid Brezhnev similar to that under Joseph Stalin?

• Workers received little direct benefit from their work for the state.

• The Soviet military was in constant conflict with the Communist Party.

• Both leaders experienced a period of relaxed relations with the United States.

• Both leaders tried to replace communism with socialism.

De-Stalinization refers to the

• elimination of references to Stalin in Soviet history.

• elimination of Stalin's ruthless policies.

• removal of images of Stalin from public places.

• overthrow of Stalin and his followers by traitors inside the Communist Party.

How did Allied occupation following World War II affect Japanese society?

• It caused continual rebellions between Japanese citizens and Allied forces.

• It destroyed Japan's fishing industry.

• It led to the strengthening of Japan's emperor.

• It caused Japan to change its focus from war to social and economic growth.

Japan's rapid emergence as an economic giant after its defeat and destruction in World War II is known as

• an illusion created by propaganda

• the "Japanese miracle"

• it lead to the strengthening of Japan's emperor

• the "Land of the Rising Sun"

Due to Allied Occupation after World War II, Japan….

• Had a limited military and growing national debt.

• Had economic prosperity, limited powers to the emperor, and a constitution modeled after France.

• Had a new constitution modeled after the U.S. Constitution, limited military, and limited powers of the emperor.

• Had a new constitution giving full power to the emperor, expanded military, and education reform