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23 Cards in this Set
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In what two locations has the UN organized an international army to stop aggression? (p. 635)
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What treaty was a pledge to create the European Union?
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The Roman Catholic Church began to encourage its members to join the ecumenical movement with the (p. 638)
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This institution was created in 1945 to establish exchange rates and as a world savings account from which countries could borrow to help stabilize the world economy. (p. 639) |
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South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore have become more prosperous by copying the success of which country?(p. 644)
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The transition from communism to capitalism and democracy in Russia was led by (p. 644) |
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What country suffered under Nazi Germany and Soviet communism, won its independence, and established a democratic government and capitalistic economy in the 1990s? (p.645) |
What is the poorest country in Europe? (p. 645) |
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Who was the ruler of Serbia that was taken to The Hague and tried for war crimes in 2001? (p. 646) |
Bangladesh was once part of which Asian country? (p. 649) |
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What is the most populous Muslim country in the world? (650) |
What country's rule did the Vietnamese defeat to become a communist state? (p. 650) |
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Which African dictator expelled all Asians from Uganda? (p. 651) |
Who was the first black president of South Africa? (p. 652) |
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What is the greatest threat Africans face today? (p. 653)
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What country is the best example of a successful democracy in Latin America? (p. 653)
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What Latin American country was defeated by Great Britain in the Falklands War? (p. 653)
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What is the only Communist country in Latin America? (p. 654) |
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What is the largest country in Latin America? (p. 654) |
What is the oldest democracy in the Middle East? (p. 655) |
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The nation of Israel was created by the United Nations in (p. 656) |
Fact: The Suez Canal was NOT captured by Israel in the Six-Day War.
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What agreement was the basis for an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty signed in 1979? (p. 657) |
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What country do many Muslims view as a Western "colony" in the Middle East? (p.662) |
Who was Afghanistan's first president? (p.664) |
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Who was the leader of al-Qaeda? (p.661)
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Who was the former leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization? (p. 657) |
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What leader of Iraq was responsible for the invasion of Kuwait and the Gulf War? (p. 660)
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Who was the leader of the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979? (p. 658) |
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What Israeli leader who participated in peace talks at Camp David in 1978? (p. 657)
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Who was elected the president of Mexico in 2000? (p. 654-655) |
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What Egyptian leader who participated in the peace talks at Camp David in 1978? (p. 657)
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Who was the centrist president of France in the late 1990s and early 21st century? (p. 643) |
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Who followed Boris Yeltsin as president of Russia in 1999? (p. 645)
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Who was the conservative chancellor of Germany? (p. 642) |
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What British Prime Minister joined in the Gulf War with the United States? (p. 641) |
Whose election represented the first time that the Institutional Revolutionary Party had been defeated in a national election? (p. 654-655) |
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What treaty called for the creation of the European Union and was signed initially by 12 members of the Common Market? (p. 636) |
What is the goal of the ecumenical movement? (p. 638) |
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What has replaced communism as the major international threat? (p. 659) |
List 2 problems facing the nations that evolved from European empires after WWII. (p. 648) |
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What is the systematic extermination of a race or ethnic or religious group? (p. 651) |
What was the rigid system of racial separation which failed because it was based on white supremacy often enforced by police and military brutality? (p. 652) |
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In what two main subjects does the Taliban instruct its students? (659) |
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