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

Question 1

Talk about:
Boris Yeltsin

Answer 1

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Question 2

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

Answer 2

Answers may vary.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

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Question 4

Talk about:
Vladimir Putin

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

Talk about:
perestroika and glasnost

Question 8

Talk about:
Lech Wa ³ê sa and Solidarity

Question 9

Talk about:
Czech Republic and Slovakia

Question 10

Talk about:
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Question 11

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

Question 12

Talk about:
Václav Hável

Question 13

Is capitalism the dominant force on the planet today?

Question 14

Talk about:
Chechnya

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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 19

Talk about:
Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 20

Talk about:
Commonwealth of Independent States

Question 21

Talk about:
Bill Clinton

Question 22

Talk about:
Silvio Berlusconi

Question 23

Talk about:
Tony Blair and Gordon Brown

Question 24

Talk about:
Hurricane Katrina

Question 25

Talk about:
Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien, and Stephen Harper

Question 26

Talk about:
Maastricht Treaty

Question 27

Talk about:
fall of the Berlin Wall

Question 28

Talk about:
American financial collapse of 2008

Question 29

Talk about:
Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schroeder, and Angela Merkel

Question 30

Talk about:
the European Community/EC

Question 31

Talk about:
Barak Obama

Question 32

Talk about:
Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy

Question 33

Talk about:
Department of Homeland Security

Question 34

Talk about:
the euro

Question 35

Talk about:
Yugoslavia

Question 36

Talk about:
Slobodan Miloševi æ and "ethnic cleansing"

Question 37

Talk about:
Bosnia

Question 38

Talk about:
the European Union/EU

Question 39

Talk about:
George W. Bush

Question 40

Talk about:
Kosovo

Question 41

Talk about:
the Taliban and war in Afghanistan

Question 42

Talk about:
Ronald Reagan and the Cold War

Question 43

Talk about:
Pan American flight 103

Question 44

Talk about:
grunge, hip-hop, gangsta rap

Question 45

Talk about:
legalization of contraception and abortion

Question 46

Talk about:
Shi'ites, Sunnis, and Kurds

Question 47

Talk about:
Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction

Question 48

Talk about:
Christian and Islamic fundamentalism

Question 49

Talk about:
Iraq War

Question 50

Talk about:
Neo-Expressionism, Anselm Kiefer's Departure from Egypt, and Jean-Michel Basquiat's Self Portrait

Question 51

Talk about:
Pope John Paul II

Question 52

Talk about:
Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front and Jorg Haider's Freedom Party

Question 53

Talk about:
Baader-Meinhof gang/Red Army Faction, the Red Brigades, and the IRA

Question 54

Talk about:
Pope Francis

Question 55

Talk about:
George H. W. Bush and the "new world order"

Question 56

Talk about:
September 11, 2001, the World Trade Center, and the Pentagon

Question 57

Talk about:
"guest workers"

Question 58

Talk about:
Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda

Question 59

Talk about:
Persian Gulf War

Question 60

Talk about:
Christian right

Question 61

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 62

Talk about:
global warming/greenhouse effect

Question 63

The collapse of the Soviet Union took place in

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

Question 64

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 65

Talk about:
World Bank, multinational/transnational corporations, GATT, and the WTO

Question 66

Talk about:
Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter films

Question 67

Talk about:
video games, Play-Station 3, and Xbox 360

Question 68

Talk about:
NGOs

Question 69

Talk about:
multiculturalism

Question 70

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 71

Talk about:
Union of Concerned Scientists

Question 72

Talk about:
e-mail, cell phones, the iPod, the iPhone, and the iPad

Question 73

Talk about:
Microsoft and Bill Gates

Question 74

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 75

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 76

Talk about:
European debt crisis

Question 77

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 78

Talk about:
developed and developing nations

Question 79

Talk about:
"Information"/"Digital Age"

Question 80

Talk about:
globalization and global economy