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

In the 2008, Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential election on a platform of change "we can believe in" and ending the war in Iraq.

Under perestroika , Mikhail Gorbachev

Challenges facing the European Union in the early twenty-first century include

Talk about: -legalization of contraception and abortion

Talk about: -Chechnya

Talk about: -NGOs

Talk about: -Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda

The country that exemplified the European debt crisis with a national debt in 2010 larger than its national economy was Greece.

Talk about: -Pope Francis

Talk about: -Pan American flight 103

The collapse of the Soviet Union took place in

All of the following are examples of the women's movement EXCEPT

Talk about: -Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron

Talk about: -Persian Gulf War

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

The austerity measures put into place in the wake of the global financial crisis resulted in all of the following EXCEPT

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the United States initially waged war in

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

Which of the following is NOT true of the video game industry?

Talk about: -globalization and global economy