Deck 18: After the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

Question 1

With the world increasingly inter-connected via transportation and communication networks, does the name "Western Civilization" still make sense?

Answer 1

not answered

Question 2

"The Iraq war was the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time." Discuss with specifics the pros and cons the quotation.

Answer 2

not answered

Question 3

In what ways were the movements of existentialism and the revival of religion responses to the "despair generated by the apparent collapse of civilized values in the twentieth century"?

Answer 3

not answered

Question 4

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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Question 5

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 6

Is capitalism the dominant force on the planet today?

Question 7

Compare and contrast the experiences of Russia with those of its Eastern European neighbors since the end of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Question 8

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

Question 9

"Globalization is going to be the salvation of civilization." Discuss, pro and con.

Question 10

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Chechnya

Question 11

Did Mikhail Gorbachev cause the Soviet Union to collapse?

Question 12

What forces have conspired to cause the return of racism, war crimes, and genocide in the Balkans? How did the reformations or reformulations of society, politics, and culture in the region after World War II lay the ground work for current upheavals there?

Question 13

How and why did the Cold War end? Did anyone "win" this conflict? Who? Why?

Question 14

Is the world facing a "clash of civilizations" in the near future? Why and or why not?

Question 15

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Commonwealth of Independent States

Question 16

What role has popular culture played in the Western world since World War II?

Question 17

Discuss, with specific examples, what has been gained and what has been lost as a result of the digital revolution.

Question 18

What are the basic problems and antagonisms between Serbia and the other countries that once made up Yugoslavia-Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Slovenia? What forces in the post-Cold War world enabled this dangerous and bloody conflict to escalate so terribly?

Question 19

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perestroika and glasnost

Question 20

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Boris Yeltsin

Question 21

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the euro

Question 22

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Silvio Berlusconi

Question 23

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Kosovo

Question 24

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Czech Republic and Slovakia

Question 25

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fall of the Berlin Wall

Question 26

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Yugoslavia

Question 27

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Bill Clinton

Question 28

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Vaclav Havel

Question 29

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Vladimir Putin

Question 30

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Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy

Question 31

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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown

Question 32

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Bosnia

Question 33

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Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schroeder, and Angela Merkel

Question 34

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the European Union/EU

Question 35

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Slobodan Milosevic and "ethnic cleansing"

Question 36

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Lech Walesa and Solidarity

Question 37

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the European Community/EC

Question 38

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Maastricht Treaty

Question 39

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George W.Bush

Question 40

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Office of Homeland Security

Question 41

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Christian right

Question 42

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Brian Mulroney, Jean Chretien, and Stephen Harper

Question 43

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Iraq war

Question 44

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Pope John Paul II

Question 45

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George H.W.Bush and the "New World Order"

Question 46

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

Question 47

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Anselm Kiefer's Departure from Egypt and Jean-Michel Basquiat's Self Portrait

Question 48

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Pan American flight 103

Question 49

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Christian and Islamic fundamentalism

Question 50

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Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction

Question 51

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the Taliban and war in Afghanistan

Question 52

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"guest workers"

Question 53

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Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds

Question 54

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Baader-Meinhof gang/Red Army Faction, the Red Brigades, the IRA

Question 55

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grunge, hip-hop, gangsta rap

Question 56

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the Gulf War/Persian Gulf War

Question 57

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Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda

Question 58

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September 11, 2001, and the World Trade Center

Question 59

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Ronald Reagan and the Cold War

Question 60

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Hurricane Katrina

Question 61

The Russian president after Boris Yeltsin was

A) Mikhail Gorbachev.
B) Vladimir Putin.
C) Nikita Khrushchev.
D) Dmitry Medvedev.
E) Gary Kasparov.

Question 62

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 do nothing substantial.

Question 63

The leader of Czechoslovakia in 1990 who replaced the Communist government was the former dissident writer and philosopher

A) Kádár.
B) Husák.
C) Dubcek.
D) Havel.
E) Dubrovnik.

Question 64

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globalization

Question 65

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 66

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 67

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e-mail, cell phones, and the iPod

Question 68

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Union of Concerned Scientists

Question 69

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NGOs

Question 70

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World Bank, multinational/transnational corporations, GATT, and the WTO

Question 71

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 72

The Solidarity movement in Poland

A) was temporarily crushed by General Lech Walesa in 1981.
B) failed to gain massive support due to stiff opposition from the conservative Polish Catholic church.
C) was formed by Wladyslaw Gomulka in 1956.
D) lacked solidarity and quickly disintegrated and disappeared in 1980.
E) ended the Communist monopoly of power in 1988-1989.

Question 73

Vladimir Putin was succeeded as president of Russia by

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

Question 74

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Lord of the Rings and the Harry Potter films

Question 75

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global warming/greenhouse effect

Question 76

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multiculturalism

Question 77

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

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

Question 78

The ruling policies of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union

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 79

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Microsoft and Bill Gates

Question 80

In 1988, the first free parliamentary elections to occur in Eastern Europe for forty years took place in

A) Hungary.
B) Austria.
C) Poland.
D) Estonia.
E) Lithuania.