Exam 30: after the Fall: the Western World in a Global Age (Since 1985)

As general secretary of the Communist Party, Mikhail Gorbachev abolished Article 6 of the Soviet Constitution, which had guaranteed the "leading role" to the Communist Party.

A serious criticism of the digital revolution is

The politician who called terrorism "the enemy of our generation" was

IDENTIFICATIONS -Lech Walesa and Solidarity

IDENTIFICATIONS -Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda

The common currency that was initially adopted by eleven member states of the European Union is the

IDENTIFICATIONS -Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction

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

IDENTIFICATIONS -the Taliban and war in Afghanistan

IDENTIFICATIONS -Microsoft and Bill Gates

IDENTIFICATIONS -Boris Yeltsin

IDENTIFICATIONS -Hurricane Katrina

IDENTIFICATIONS -Christian right

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

IDENTIFICATIONS -Silvio Berlusconi

The British prime minister who gave support to the United States in the war on terror and in the Iraq War was

IDENTIFICATIONS -Kosovo

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

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?

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