5 Written Questions

1. Collective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s.
2. President of Iraq since 1979. Waged war on Iran in 1980-1988. In 1990 he ordered an invasion of Kuwait but was defeated by United States and its allies in the Gulf War (1991).
3. Members of a leftist coalition that overthrew the Nicaraguan dictatorship of Anastasia Somoza in 1979 and attempted to install a socialist economy. The United States financed armed opposition by the Contras. The Sandinistas lost national elections in 1990.
4. Policy of 'openness' that was the centerpiece of Mikhail Gorbachev's efforts to liberalize communism in the Soviet Union.
5. Rapidly growing, new industrial nations of the late twentieth century, including the Asian Tigers.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment, torture, and executions by the military.
   1. keiretsu
   2. proxy wars
   3. Dirty War
   4. Sandinistas
2. Eighteenth-century English intellectual who warned that population growth threatened future generations because, in his view, population growth would always outstrip increases in agricultural production.
   1. Thomas Malthus
   2. proxy wars
   3. Sandinistas
   4. Asian Tigers
3. A change in the rates of population growth. Before the transition, both birth and death rates are high, resulting in a slowly growing population; then the death rate drops but the birth rate remains high, causing a population explosion.
   1. Solidarity
   2. demographic transition
   3. perestroika
   4. Deng Xiaoping
4. Head of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991. His liberalization effort improved relations with the West, but he lost power after his reforms led to the collapse of Communist governments in eastern Europe.
   1. Thomas Malthus
   2. Mikhail Gorbachev
   3. Saddam Husain
   4. keiretsu
5. Socialist politician elected president of Chile in 1970 and overthrown by the military in 1973. He died during the military attack.
   1. Solidarity
   2. Salvador Allende
   3. Asian Tigers
   4. Saddam Husain

5 True/False Questions

1. keiretsu → War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment, torture, and executions by the military.

   True        False

2. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini → Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic republic.

   True        False

3. proxy wars → War waged by the Argentine military (1976-1982) against leftist groups. Characterized by the use of illegal imprisonment, torture, and executions by the military.

   True        False

4. Deng Xiaoping → Policy of 'openness' that was the centerpiece of Mikhail Gorbachev's efforts to liberalize communism in the Soviet Union.

   True        False

5. Solidarity → Polish trade union created in 1980 to protest working conditions and political repression. It began the nationalist opposition to communist rule that led in 1989 to the fall of communism in eastern Europe.

   True        False