1. The Warsaw Treaty Organization
a. was formed in response to NATO. *.
b. was under the leadership of Lech Walesa.
c. was designed to contain the spread of communism.
d. was a free trade organization designed to foster greater economic expansion in western Europe.
e. monitored the treaty that ended World War II.
2. The Bay of Pigs invasion
a. diminished U.S. prestige in Latin America.
b. was a failure.
c. strengthened Castro’s position in Cuba.
d. strengthened Castro’s commitment to communism.
e. all of the above. *
3. Betty Friedan, in her book The Feminine Mystique, wrote about
a. the spectacular advances that American women had made in the years after World War II.
b. how unhappy many American women were. *
c. the greater education and employment freedoms that Russian women had over U.S. women.
d. the subtle transformation of the rights of women in the Islamic world.
e. the controversial topic of female sexuality.
4. In 1946, six thousand people died in the Great Calcutta Killing in a confrontation between
a. Pakistanis and Bangladeshis.
b. United States and Russians
c. Hindus and Muslims. *
d. North Vietnamese and South Vietnamese.
e. communists and fascists.
5. The English and French were forced to withdraw from controlling the Suez Canal during the crisis in 1956 because
a. the Egyptians under Gamal Abdel Nasser drove them out.
b. the Soviets used the threat of nuclear war to force them out.
c. of the threat posed by a rebuilding Germany back home.
d. the United States condemned the attack and forced them to withdraw. *
e. the Anglo-French alliance fell apart due to an old dispute between the two traditional enemies.
