Exam 29: Transitions to Democracy and the Collapse of Communism

What was one factor that allowed the Gaullist government and French companies to head off the 1968 strike movement,leaving students alone in their protests?

How did Margaret Thatcher reorient British economic policy upon becoming prime minister?

Bosnian Serbs massacred 8,000 men and boys in the fields outside of which town?

What country provided support for Francisco Franco's regime after the Second World War,resisting attempts to sanction Spain for its support of the Axis powers?

What Eastern bloc capital experienced a "Spring" in 1968 as its head of state attempted to institute "socialism with a human face"?

In which direction did European domestic politics shift during the 1970s?

How did Jacques Chirac begin his presidency?

What major event happened at Chernobyl,Ukraine,in 1986?

Why was the political transformation in 1989 in Romania more violent than in other Eastern European countries?

What ethnic minority did Nicolae Ceauşescu target to make nationalist appeals to Romanians,razing 1,500 villages in the process?

What issue was central to the Helsinki Accords,signed in 1975?

In what nation did a dictator's choice to attempt to hold its African colonies at all costs result in war with nationalist rebels in Angola and,later,Mozambique?

With what nation did the United Kingdom fight a short war in 1982 over the sparsely populated Falkland Islands?

What was the Polish organization of trade unions led by Lech Walesa named?

What was the name given to the decades of violence between the Irish Republican Army and Protestant paramilitary groups beginning in 1969?

Mikhail Gorbachev introduced a policy known as glasnost,which did what?

What Mediterranean island was the site of competing claims of ownership by Greece and Turkey during the last half of the twentieth century?

Ronald Reagan's plan for missile defense,dubbed what,became a sticking point in arms-reduction negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union?

Which European leader feared American domination of Europe and insisted that France maintain an independent nuclear capability?

Which nation created the first non-communist government in Eastern Europe since 1948 with the election of Tadeusz Mazowiecki in 1989?