chapter 30 history

"al-Qaeda" means?

"the base."

The collapse of the Soviet Union took place in?

1991.

Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in?

1993.

The new republic of Kosovo was established in?

2008.

Apple's iPad was introduced in?

2010.

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the United States initially waged war in?

Afghanistan.

British Prime Minister David Cameron is a member of the?

Conservative Party.

The newest member of the EU, having joined in 2013, is?

Croatia.

The leader of Czechoslovakia in 1990 who replaced the Communist government was the former dissident writer and philosopher?

Havel.

The reunification of Germany was accomplished under the leadership of?

Helmut Kohl.

An example of nationalist terrorism is the?

IRA in Northern Ireland.

Which of the following artists was a Neo-Expressionist?

Jean-Michael Basquiat

The first independence movements among the Soviet republics during Gorbachev's rule occurred in the Baltic area of?

Lithuania.

The first opportunity for testing the new relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union in the post-Cold War era was the?

Persian Gulf War.

In 1988, the first free parliamentary elections to occur in Eastern Europe for forty years took place in?

Poland.

The brutal dictatorial Communist government of Nicolae Ceausescu came to an end 1989 in?

Romania.

Under Vladimir Putin's presidency, all of the following occurred EXCEPT?

Russia ended its war in Chechnya.

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, elected pope in 2013, chose to take the name of which medieval saint?

Saint Francis

Which of the following is NOT true of the video game industry?

Video games have rejected realism, using abstract images to convey action.

Dmitry Medvedev was succeeded as president of Russia in 2012 by?

Vladimir Putin.

Under perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev?

intended to restructure the economic and political systems.

Bosnians, Croatians, and Serbs met in Dayton, Ohio, in 1995 and?

negotiated an end to the war in Bosnia.

Massive rioting in the suburbs of Paris in 2005 was caused by?

resentment of some young Muslims about unemployment and living conditions.

Challenges facing the European Union in the early twenty-first century include?

that many Europeans remain committed to a national identity and do not see themselves as "Europeans."

The party that won nearly 50 percent of the vote in East Germany's 1990 election was?

the Christian Democrats.

All of the following are correct about the Bill Clinton presidency EXCEPT?

the adoption of a costly national health system.

It could be claimed that all of the following contributed to Islamic terrorist activity against the West EXCEPT?

the defeat of Muslim Pakistan by India in Kashmir.

A continuing problem roiling Canadian politics for the past several decades has been?

the demand by many French-speaking Canadians that the province of Quebec become independent of the rest of Canada.

George H.W. Bush was defeated for reelection in 1992 for all of the following EXCEPT?

the inability to win the Gulf War.

All of the following are examples of the women's movement EXCEPT?

the lack of success in repealing laws against birth control and abortion in Europe.

As general secretary of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev abolished Article 6 of the Soviet Constitution, which had guaranteed the "leading role" to the Communist Party.

true

In 2004, Yugoslavia officially ceased to exist when it was renamed Serbia and Montenegro.

true

In 2013 Pope Francis became the first pope from Latin America.

true

In the 2008, Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential election on a platform of change "we can believe in" and ending the war in Iraq.

true

The country that exemplified the European debt crisis with a national debt in 2010 larger than its national economy was Greece.

true

All of the following are true of Pope John Paul II EXCEPT?

holding liberal views on birth control and women in the priesthood.

The common currency that was initially adopted by eleven member states of the European Union is the?

euro.

Because of the success of Russia's new free-market society, introduced after the collapse of the Soviet Union, by the early twenty-first century, less than five percent of the Russian people were still living in poverty.

false

The Lisbon Treaty, ratified in 2009 by the EU, dramatically reduced the power of the European Parliament.

false

The United States is home to 6 percent of the planet's people but consumes 50 percent of its resources.

false

The justifications that George W. Bush used for invading Iraq in 2003 were agreed upon by most members of the United Nations.

false

The reunification of Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall led to the immediate emergence of considerable prosperity in the former Eastern Germany.

false

One of the underlying causes for the end of the Cold War was?

financial difficulties for both the superpowers and the unbearable expenses of the arms race.

All of the following led to decline in George W. Bush's popularity by his second term as president EXCEPT?

his strong support for environmental programs that were opposed by major business interests.

By the 1980s Soviet problems included all of the following EXCEPT?

a collapse of the space exploration program.

A transnational corporation is defined as?

a company that has divisions in more than two countries.

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia struggled with all of the following EXCEPT:

a renewed Communist Party majority which took over the government.

The austerity measures put into place in the wake of the global financial crisis resulted in all of the following EXCEPT?

a speedy economic recovery for Europe and the United States.

The collapse of the U.S. housing market in 2007-2008 led to?

a worldwide recession.

Yugoslavia was divided into warring factions because of?

demands for ethnic separatism.