Question 1

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

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A)   the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
B)   the rise of fundamentalist Islam with the coming to power of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran.
C)   the stationing of US forces in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War.
D)   the defeat of Muslim Pakistan by India in Kashmir.
E)   the Iraq war, which resulted in many civilian casualties and the torture of prisoners by American troops.

Question 2

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-Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda

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Osama bin Laden was the founder and lead...

Question 3

What major economic challenges have plagued the West during the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early twenty-first century?

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During the 1980s, the major economic cha...

Question 4

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

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A)   Czechoslovakia.
B)   Bulgaria.
C)   East Germany.
D)   Romania.
E)   Yugoslavia.

Question 5

Under perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev

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A)   intended to frighten the United States with more military spending.
B)   intended to create a more free and open political culture in the USSR.
C)   intended to turn all power over to the people.
D)   intended to restructure the economic and political systems.
E)   intended to do nothing substantial.

Question 6

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-Mikhail Gorbachev

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Question 7

Is capitalism the dominant force on the planet today?

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Capitalism is indeed one of the dominant...

Question 8

Vladimir Putin was succeeded as president of Russia by

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A)   Lech Walesa.
B)   Mikhail Gorbachev.
C)   Dmitry Medvedev.
D)   Yuri Andropov.
E)   Andrei Sakharov.

Question 9

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-the European Union/EU

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Question 10

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-Microsoft and Bill Gates

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Question 11

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.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 12

The ruling policies of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union

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A)   included the forcible exportation of Russian Communism to Central and South America.
B)   evoked a "New Thinking" about world affairs and the balance of power leading to new arms limitation treaties and greater autonomy for Communist regimes in Eastern Europe.
C)   increased political repression in Russia and in Eastern Europe.
D)   grew out of Russian misperceptions of United States strengths and failed to appreciate that American military spending and tax reductions under Ronald Reagan had greatly increased American budget deficits.
E)   led to a reform of Soviet Communism and the permanent strengthening of the Soviet regime.

Question 13

The Yugoslavian president ousted from power in 2000 and who was subsequently put on trial for war crimes against humanity was

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A)   Vojislav Kostunica.
B)   Nicolae Ceausescu.
C)   Wladyslaw Gomulka.
D)   Todor Zhivkov.
E)   Slobodan Milosevic.

Question 14

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-Bosnia

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Bosnia, officially known as Bosnia and H...

Question 15

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-Silvio Berlusconi

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Silvio Berlusconi is an Italian media ty...

Question 16

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

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A)   Iraq.
B)   the Persian Gulf.
C)   Iran.
D)   Pakistan.
E)   Afghanistan.

Question 17

An Eastern European republic that, fueled by ethnic rivalries, came into existence in 1993 with the breakup of a previously existing state is

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A)   Lithuania.
B)   Estonia.
C)   Albania.
D)   Lichtenstein.
E)   Slovakia.

Question 18

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-Iraq war

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The Iraq War, also known as the Second G...

Question 19

British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, said that "We are realizing how fragile are our frontiers...Today, conflicts rarely stay within national boundaries."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

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-NGOs

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IDENTIFICATIONS -the European Union/EU

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IDENTIFICATIONS -Microsoft and Bill Gates

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Under perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev

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