Deck 30: After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

Question 1

define the following term:
Lech Wa ³ê sa and Solidarity

Answer 1

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Question 2

Discuss, with specific examples, what has been gained and what has been lost as a result of the emergence of the Digital Age.

Answer 2

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Question 3

define the following term:
Commonwealth of Independent States

Answer 3

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Question 4

What role has popular culture played in the Western world since 1985?

Question 5

Is capitalism the dominant force on the planet today?

Question 6

What attitudes and actions have determined American foreign policy since 1985?

Question 7

define the following term:
Boris Yeltsin

Question 8

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

Question 9

define the following term:
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Question 10

define the following term:
Vladimir Putin

Question 11

define the following term:
Chechnya

Question 12

Which people and events brought the Cold War to an end? Is it accurate to declare "winners" and "losers"? Why or why not?

Question 13

define the following term:
Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 14

How have terrorism and the war on terrorism suggested the advent of a "clash of civilizations"?

Question 15

How have the experiences of Russia differed from that of its Eastern European neighbors since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991? Why?

Question 16

define the following term:
Václav Hável

Question 17

define the following term:
perestroika and glasnost

Question 18

What is globalization, and what are its potential impacts on the concept of Western civilization?

Question 19

How do the problems and antagonisms among the other countries of the former Yugoslavia exemplify the continuing force of nationalism in contemporary Europe?

Question 20

define the following term:
Czech Republic and Slovakia

Question 21

define the following term:
Bosnia

Question 22

define the following term:
Maastricht Treaty

Question 23

define the following term:
Kosovo

Question 24

define the following term:
fall of the Berlin Wall

Question 25

define the following term:
Silvio Berlusconi

Question 26

define the following term:
Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien, and Stephen Harper

Question 27

define the following term:
Yugoslavia

Question 28

define the following term:
Bill Clinton

Question 29

define the following term:
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown

Question 30

define the following term:
George W. Bush

Question 31

define the following term:
the European Community/EC

Question 32

define the following term:
Hurricane Katrina

Question 33

define the following term:
Barak Obama

Question 34

define the following term:
Slobodan Miloševi æ and "ethnic cleansing"

Question 35

define the following term:
the European Union/EU

Question 36

define the following term:
the euro

Question 37

define the following term:
Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schroeder, and Angela Merkel

Question 38

define the following term:
Department of Homeland Security

Question 39

define the following term:
American financial collapse of 2008

Question 40

define the following term:
Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy

Question 41

define the following term:
Pope John Paul II

Question 42

define the following term:
Pan American flight 103

Question 43

define the following term:
Pope Francis

Question 44

define the following term:
grunge, hip-hop, gangsta rap

Question 45

define the following term:
Iraq War

Question 46

define the following term:
September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon

Question 47

define the following term:
Christian and Islamic fundamentalism

Question 48

define the following term:
Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front and Jorg Haider's Freedom Party

Question 49

define the following term:
Christian right

Question 50

define the following term:
Persian Gulf War

Question 51

define the following term:
Baader-Meinhof gang/Red Army Faction, the Red Brigades, and the IRA

Question 52

define the following term:
Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda

Question 53

define the following term:
Ronald Reagan and the Cold War

Question 54

define the following term:
Neo-Expressionism, Anselm Kiefer's Departure from Egypt, and Jean-Michel Basquiat's Self Portrait

Question 55

define the following term:
"guest workers"

Question 56

define the following term:
Shi'ites, Sunnis, and Kurds

Question 57

define the following term:
Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction

Question 58

define the following term:
the Taliban and war in Afghanistan

Question 59

define the following term:
legalization of contraception and abortion

Question 60

define the following term:
George H. W. Bush and the "new world order"

Question 61

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

A)Afghanistan.
B)Azerbaijan.
C)Lithuania.
D)Georgia.
E)Chechnya.

Question 62

The collapse of the Soviet Union took place in

A)1989.
B)1991.
C)1993.
D)1994.
E)1995.

Question 63

define the following term:
globalization and global economy

Question 64

Under perestroika , Mikhail Gorbachev

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 make cosmetic reforms without altering state policies.

Question 65

define the following term:
video games, Play-Station 3, and Xbox 360

Question 66

define the following term:
Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter films

Question 67

define the following term:
developed and developing nations

Question 68

define the following term:
global warming/greenhouse effect

Question 69

define the following term:
"Information"/"Digital Age"

Question 70

define the following term:
Union of Concerned Scientists

Question 71

By the 1980s Soviet problems included all of the following except

A)a collapse of the space exploration program.
B)a decline in the standard of living.
C)rigid, centralized planning.
D)the failure to keep pace with the West in the production of high technology.
E)the inability of the Communist Party and state agencies to solve problems quickly.

Question 72

Dmitry Medvedev was succeeded as president of Russia in 2012 by

A)Boris Yeltsin.
B)Nikolai Patrushev.
C)Vladimir Putin.
D)Nikolay Kovalyov.
E)Viktor Zubkov.

Question 73

define the following term:
NGOs

Question 74

define the following term:
e-mail, cell phones, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad

Question 75

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

A)a renewed Communist Party majority which took over the government.
B)organized crime.
C)an uprising in largely Muslim Chechnya.
D)economic hardships.
E)a president who was often ill.

Question 76

define the following term:
multiculturalism

Question 77

define the following term:
Microsoft and Bill Gates

Question 78

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

A)power was centralized in the federal government.
B)Russia ended its war in Chechnya.
C)as many as 40 percent of the population lived in poverty.
D)the economy grew significantly and the government had a budget surplus.
E)the economy significantly depended upon exports of oil and natural gas.

Question 79

define the following term:
World Bank, multinational/transnational corporations, GATT, and the WTO

Question 80

define the following term:
European debt crisis