Short Answer


Write the word or phrase that best completes each statement or answers the question.
1 Hopes that the Versailles settlement could be permanent ran so high that an American and a French leader coauthored a treaty outlawing war foreverhorizontalthe __________ Pact of 1928.
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2 Franklin Roosevelt's __________ enacted a number of social insurance measures and used government spending to stimulate the economy.
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3 In France liberal, socialist, and communist parties allied in a __________ in 1936.
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4 The advocates of __________ in Germany attacked the weakness of parliamentary democracy and the corruption and class conflict of Western capitalism.
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5 Hitler set about constructing a __________ statehorizontalthat is, a new kind of government that would exercise massive, direct control over virtually all the activities of its subjects.
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6 The final new ingredient of Europe's diplomatic framework, the __________ between the United States and the Soviet Union, had a durable influence on politics and society in the West.
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7 Several new political movements surfaced in postwar Europe, notably an important __________ current that was wedded to democratic institutions and moderate social reform.
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8 France, Britain, and the United States merged their zones of occupation into what became the __________.
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9 France, pressed by the war in __________, changed its constitution in 1958.
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10 The consolidation of democracy and the shift leftward of the political spectrum entailed a general movement toward a __________ state.
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11 A new breed of bureaucrat, often called a "__________" because of intense training in engineering or economics, came to the fore in the offices of government.
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12 In Britain, Conservative leader __________ began the longest-running prime ministership in history in 1979.
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13 In 1958, six West European nations set up the __________, or Common Market, to begin to create a single economic entity across national boundaries.
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14 A Common Market bureaucracy was established, ultimately in __________, to oversee operations.
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15 A new __________ began to take shape with the publication in 1949 of The Second Sex by the French intellectual Simone de Beauvoir.
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16 Work by the British economist __________ played a great role in the American New Deal and efforts by European planners to control economic cycles.
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17 The __________ movement headed by Pablo Picasso rendered familiar objects as geometrical shapes.
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