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AP Euro Chapter 30

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The ruling policies of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union
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
Mikhail Gorbachev's radical reforms included all of the following except
the termination of the office of president in the Soviet Union
After the break up of the Soviet Union, the leader of Russia became
Boris Yeltsin
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia suffered with all of the following except
a renewed Communist Party majority which took over the government
Under Vladimir Putin's presidency, all of the following have occurred except
Russia ended its involvement in Chechnya
The first and most successful independence movements among the Soviet republic under Gorbachev's rule occurred in the Baltic area of
Lithuania
Boris Yeltsin was succeeded as president of Russia by
Vladimir Putin
The Solidarity movement in Poland
ended the Communist monopoly of power in 1988-1989
In 1988, the first parliamentary elections to occur in Eastern Europe for forty years took place in
Poland
The leader of Czechoslovakia in 1990 who replaced the Communist government was the former dissident writer and philosopher
Havel
The brutal dictatorial Communist government of Nicolae Ceausescu came to an end in 1989 in
Romania
An Eastern European republic that, fueled by ethnic rivalries, came into existence in 1993 with the breakup of a previously existing state is
Slovakia
Probably the most symbolic event ending the Cold War was
the fall of the Berlin Wall
The politician who kept the fractious state of Yugoslavia together for decades after World War II was
Marshall Tito
Yugoslavia was divided into warring factions because of
demands for ethnic separatism
The Dayton Accords of November 1995
brought an end to the war in Bosnia with a peace plan acceptable to Bosnian Muslims, Croatians, and Serbs
The tactic of "ethnic cleansing," murdering or forcibly removing ethnic minorities from the lands in the former Yugoslavia, is a savage strategy of modern political terror practiced most brutally by
Serbs
The Yugoslavian president ousted for power in 2000 and who was subsequently put on trial for war crimes against humanity was
Slobodan Milosevic
The reunification of Germany was accomplished under the leadership of
Helmut Kohl
The issue that fatally weakened Margaret Thatcher's government and which eventually brought the Labour Party to power was
the proposal for flat-rate poll tax
The individual who succeeded Tony Blair as the British prime minister in 2007 was
Gordon Brown
The British prime minister who gave support to the United States in the war on terror and the Iraq War was
Tony Blair
By 1995, a major issue in French society was
resentment against immigrants
The new French president elected in 2007 was
Nicolas Sarkozy
The major issue that troubled Italian society in recent decades has been
political corruption
The common currency that was initially adopted by eleven members of the European Union is the
euro
Challenges facing the Economic Union in the early twenty first century include
many Europeans remain committed to a national identity and do not see themselves as "Europeans"
By 2004, the population of the European Union was
455 million
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 correct about the Bill Clinton presidency except
the adoption of a costly national health system
All of the following led to the decline in George H.W. Bush's popularity by his second term as president except
the war in Iraq
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 from the rest of Canada
One of the underlying causes for the end of the Cold War was
financial difficulties for both the superpowers and the unbearable expenses for the arms race
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
An example of nationalist terrorism is the
IRA in Northern Ireland
The politician who called terrorism "the enemy of our generation" was
Vladimir Putin
An example of state-sponsored terrorism was the
bombing of Pan American flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988
In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the United States initially waged war in
Afghanistan
All are correct about the war in Iraq that began in 2003 except
the Iraqi army continued to put up fierce resistance to the coalition forces until 2006
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 dramatic social development affecting the status and expectations of women in Western Europe since the 1960s has been
a persistent birth rate decline across Europe with Spain becoming the lowest in the world
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 most European countries
Protestant fundamentalism generally includes all of the following except
support for secular humanism
Pope Paul II was, advocated or practiced all of the following except
had liberal views on birth control and women in the priesthood
Which of the following artists was a Neo-Expressionist?
Jean-Michael Basquiat
Which of the following was not an example of "grunge" music?
Snoop Doggy Dog
An example of multiculturalism in literature would be
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies
A serious criticism of digital revolution is
it has replaced cultural uniqueness and bodily presence
Which of the following is not directly tied to governments and former political involvement?
NGOs
All of the following are social challenges to globalization except
a reduction in civil wars
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