AP®︎ European History: Topic 9.1 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 9.1 of AP European History – Contextualizing Cold War and Contemporary Europe.
Questions List
Topic 9.1
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: KC-4.2.IV.A
Which two nations emerged as global superpowers after WWII?
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Topic 9.1: Contextualizing Cold War and Contemporary Europe
Learning Objective: Unit 9: Learning Objective A
Explain the context in which the Cold War developed, spread, and ended in Europe.
Review: KC-4.1
Total war and political instability in the first half of the 20th century gave way to a polarized state order during the Cold War and eventually to efforts at transnational union.
Review: KC-4.1.IV
As World War II ended, a Cold War between the liberal democratic West and the communist East began, lasting nearly half a century.
Review: KC-4.2
The stresses of economic collapse and total war engendered internal conflicts within European states and created conflicting conceptions of the relationship between the individual and the state, as demonstrated in the ideological battle between and among democracy, communism, and fascism.
Review: KC-4.3
During the 20th century, diverse intellectual and cultural movements questioned the existence of objective knowledge, the ability of reason to arrive at truth, and the role of religion in determining moral standards.
Review: KC-4.3.I.ii
The experience of war intensified a sense of anxiety that permeated many facets of thought and culture, giving way by the century’s end to a plurality of intellectual frameworks.
Review: KC-4.4
Demographic changes, economic growth, total war, disruptions of traditional social patterns, and competing definitions of freedom and justice altered the experiences of everyday life.
Review: KC-4.4.III
New voices gained prominence in political, intellectual, and social discourse.
