21.4 test review

AIDS is a serious health concern in _______________ , an area where more than 1.5 million people were infected with HIV in 2009.

Africa

The Latin American country whose policies of increased trade and educational reforms helped to expand the middle class under presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff is

Brazil

How did budget deficits during the Reagan administration compare with those of the 1970s?

Budget deficits were triple those of the 1970s.

Vladimir Putin used military force to suppress a rebellion in the state of

Chechnya.

Religious tension between Christians in the south and Muslim immigrants in the north led to civil war that devastated the local economy and split the African nation of

Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast).

What prompted Deng Xiaoping's reaction to the protests in Tiananmen Square?

He believed they were demanding an end to Communist rule.

Over what province did a war erupt in 1998?

Kosovo

A popular revolution that eventually led to the end of Communism in Poland was led by a former electrician named

Lech Walesa.

NATO engaged in air strikes against Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi after he used force to deter protesters who rebelled against his authoritarian regime in

Libya.

Reforms in the Soviet Union began in 1989 under the Russian leader

Mikhail Gorbachev.

In Southeast Asia, the people in the isolated country of __________ live under brutal military rule.

Myanmar

President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, leader of an oppressive government, fled his country after a democratic uprising in

Tunisia

The Russian President who vowed to return Chechnya to Russian authority and succeeded in growing Russia's economy was

Vladimir Putin.

After the collapse of the Communist Party, the United States and NATO intervened in the internal conflicts in the provinces of

Yugoslavia.

By 1980 the Soviet Union was experiencing

a declining economy.

Reforms in the Soviet Union that began in 1989 eventually led to

a peaceful revolution in Germany.

One factor that contributed to the loss of popularity for Canadian President Brian Mulroney was

a perception of U.S. favoritism regarding NAFTA.

One effect of China's one-child policy might reasonably be

a smaller number of people in the future work force.

The Four Modernizations policy advocated by Deng Xiaoping focused on improvements in

agriculture, industry, technology, and defense.

Some people feel that "cultural imperialism" will

cause American values and culture to weaken the values and cultures of other nations.

One of the European Union's first goals was to

create a common currency.

In the last twenty years, Japan has experienced slow economic growth and a decline in prices known as

deflation.

Under Slobodan Milošević, Serbia adopted a policy in Bosnia of

ethnic cleansing.

In an effort to win the support of the middle class living in the cities, in the 1990s Chinese authorities

guaranteed access to more consumer goods.

The North American Free Trade Agreement sought to

improve trade relations between Canada, the United States, and the European Union.

Attacks on foreigners became common in Germany during the 1990s, partly because

increased unemployment made some Germans think that foreigners were taking away jobs.

The North American Free Trade Agreement sought to

make trade between Canada, the United States, and Mexico more profitable.

The Four Modernizations of Deng Xiaoping were new policies in industry, agriculture, technology, and

national defense

An increase in the average age of the population is a result of China's

one-child policy.

One of the effects of economic change in China that began in the 1990s is that farmers earn approximately

one-half the amount of city factory workers.

The United States was inclined to sign a weapons treaty in 1990 because it needed to

reduce military spending.

In Egypt during 2011, political protests for democracy

succeeded because the Egyptian army sided with the protestors.

The proportion of people over age 65 in Japan is

the highest of any industrialized country in the world.

What threatened the stability of the euro in 2010?

the public debts of Greece and Ireland

As a result of his handling of the problems in Kosovo, Milošević

was tried for war crimes.