Question 1

What are the challenges presented by international terrorism since 1970? In a discussion of three or four specific events or movements, what are some of the commonalities and some of the differences between them?

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Question 2

Which of the following is a correct statement about postwar Canadian political development?

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A) Lester Pearson advocated political union with the United States. 
B) The Liberal Party created Canada's welfare state. 
C) Brian Mulroney opposed a free trades agreement with the United States that was very well received by all Canadians. 
D) Quebec was granted independence in 2006, as a result of the national referendum. 
E) Vast oil reserves were discovered off the coast of British Columbia.

Question 3

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb

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Question 4

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
1972 Munich Olympic Games, the Irish Republican Army, Pan Am flight 103, Lockerbie, Scotland

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Question 5

The movement for civil rights in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s

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A) was strongly opposed by Malcolm X, a white political leader from Illinois. 
B) created a "white backlash" which aided a national trend toward greater political conservatism. 
C) received no governmental support until 1974. 
D) energized Indian and black minorities, who together composed 34 percent of the population. 
E) finally achieved the right to vote for all black American adults as a result of the Proclamation of 1953.

Question 6

Identify the following terms. 
existentialism, Postmodernism, and Poststructuralism or deconstruction

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existentialism, Postmodernism,...

Question 7

The Harvard-educated billionaire right-centrist elected as president in Chile following divisions in the Socialist party in 2010 was ​

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A) Carlos ​Slim 
B) Jorge paulo Lemann 
C) Michelle Bachelet 
D) Sebastian Piñera 
E) Salvador Allende

Question 8

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Slobodan Miloševicand "ethnic cleansing"

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Slobodan Miloševicand...

Question 9

Thatcherism

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A) increased the benefits of the welfare state. 
B) restricted union power. 
C) increased the power of the labor unions. 
D) resulted in high unemployment in southern England. 
E) ended capitalism in Britain.

Question 10

By the 1970s, Latin American governments attempted to maintain their failing economies by borrowing from abroad, particularly from banks in Europe and the United States.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
Vicente Fox

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Question 12

What is meant by the term "Americanization"? Do you think the growth of "American" pop culture is the most important change in Western society since the 1930s? How significant is its reach beyond Western society? In what ways is this a positive influence? What negative trends does it introduce?

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Question 13

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
"the consumer society"

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Question 14

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
"the pill"

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"the pill"...

Question 15

Why was US concern over Marxist and Communist revolutions more intensified in the Caribbean and Latin American states than in Africa as it decolonized?  Why did the US under Kennedy, Reagan and George H.W. Bush promote more direct intervention in areas like Cuba and Nicaragua than ​in places with brutal military regimes?

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Question 16

By the beginning of the twenty-first century, the two Eastern European states that were most successful in making the transition to democracy and free markets were Poland and the Czech Republic.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

The substitution of traditional imports by increasing domestic industrial production in Latin America began to fail in the 1960s because

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A) they often lacked sufficient labor to allow them to compete with foreign manufacturers. 
B) Japan refused to buy any goods from countries using import-substitution. 
C) domestic markets were too small and countries were unable to find enough foreign buyers. 
D) United States firms effectively stifled attempts to establish industry in Latin America. 
E) foreign capital costs and a welter of other, highly technical problems fatally weakened attempts to expand Latin American industry.

Question 18

Throughout Europe, during the decade between 1948 and 1957,

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A) enrollment in universities experienced a steady decline. 
B) prostitution became rampant. 
C) the number of cars tripled. 
D) there was a return to the traditional occupation of farming. 
E) economic growth stagnated.

Question 19

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
personal computer and the Internet

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personal computer...

Question 20

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 
September 11, 2001 and the World Trade Center, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda

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September 11,...

Exam 15: Europe and the Western Hemisphere Since 1945

What are the challenges presented by international terrorism since 1970? In a discussion of three or four specific events or movements, what are some of the commonalities and some of the differences between them?

Which of the following is a correct statement about postwar Canadian political development?

Instructions: Identify the following terms. J. Robert Oppenheimer and the atomic bomb

Instructions: Identify the following terms. 1972 Munich Olympic Games, the Irish Republican Army, Pan Am flight 103, Lockerbie, Scotland

The movement for civil rights in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s

Identify the following terms. existentialism, Postmodernism, and Poststructuralism or deconstruction

The Harvard-educated billionaire right-centrist elected as president in Chile following divisions in the Socialist party in 2010 was ​

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Slobodan Miloševicand "ethnic cleansing"

Thatcherism

By the 1970s, Latin American governments attempted to maintain their failing economies by borrowing from abroad, particularly from banks in Europe and the United States.

Instructions: Identify the following terms. Vicente Fox

What is meant by the term "Americanization"? Do you think the growth of "American" pop culture is the most important change in Western society since the 1930s? How significant is its reach beyond Western society? In what ways is this a positive influence? What negative trends does it introduce?

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "the consumer society"

Instructions: Identify the following terms. "the pill"

By the beginning of the twenty-first century, the two Eastern European states that were most successful in making the transition to democracy and free markets were Poland and the Czech Republic.

The substitution of traditional imports by increasing domestic industrial production in Latin America began to fail in the 1960s because

Throughout Europe, during the decade between 1948 and 1957,

Instructions: Identify the following terms. personal computer and the Internet

Instructions: Identify the following terms. September 11, 2001 and the World Trade Center, Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda

The Harvard-educated billionaire right-centrist elected as president in Chile following divisions in the Socialist party in 2010 was