AP European History Unit 9: Cold War and Contemporary Europe Practice Exam

1. The situation described by Churchill was most directly a result of which of the following developments?

2. The concerns expressed by Churchill in the excerpt most directly led to which of the following?

3. A historian would most likely use this speech as evidence for which of the following claims about the early Cold War?

4. The cartoon is best understood as a response to which of the following?

5. The policy depicted in the cartoon had which of the following long-term effects on Western Europe?

6. The Soviet actions alluded to in the cartoon are most consistent with their broader Cold War policy of

7. The ideas expressed in the passage emerged most directly from the context of which of the following?

8. De Beauvoir's arguments are most representative of the intellectual foundations of which of the following?

9. Which of the following developments in the late 20th century best represents a partial fulfillment of the goals advocated by de Beauvoir?

10. Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of glasnost and perestroika were intended to

11. Which of the following was a direct consequence of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991?

12. The process of decolonization in the decades following World War II was most directly undermined by

13. The economic model followed by countries in the Soviet bloc after World War II, such as Poland and East Germany, differed most significantly from the model in Western Europe in that it

14. The wars in the Balkans in the 1990s, which involved ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo, were a direct result of

15. The creation of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 and the European Economic Community in 1957 were primarily motivated by a desire to

16. The expansion of "cradle-to-grave" social welfare programs in many Western European nations after World War II was based on the idea that

17. The large-scale migration of workers from Southern Europe and former colonies to Western Europe in the 1950s and 1960s was primarily a result of

18. The rise of Green parties in Western and Central Europe in the late 20th century is best understood as a critique of

19. The Hungarian Revolt of 1956 and the Prague Spring of 1968 were similar in that both were

20. The emergence of postmodernism in the post-1945 period is best explained as a cultural response to