Exam 26: Into the Twenty-First Century: The Present in Perspective

Beginning in 1978, China, though officially still Communist, opened itself to foreign investment and implemented a market-oriented economy.

An example of a tendency in the Islamic world to reject Western cultural values, though not Western technology, was Iran under the Ayatollah Khomeini.

As the third millennium dawns, there are reasons for both optimistic and pessimistic outlooks. A pessimist might argue all of the following except that

The eastern European country that ended Communism with the "velvet revolution" was

During most of the 1990s there was important economic growth for many East Asian countries. According to the text, the country most transformed by this growth was

In what way are forces pulling the contemporary world together and in what way are forces pulling the contemporary world apart?

Going from prison to president of Czechoslovakia in seven months was Václav ________.

After the collapse of communism

The country that in the 1990s became the world's greatest creditor is _______.

Islamic fundamentalism was a voice for moderation in many Islamic states.

The most heavily-polluted cities in the world are found mostly in Europe.

A country where open rejection of Western culture and cultural values occurred in the 1980s was

A major area of conflict in the Middle East in recent years has been

With the collapse of Communism, only a few states remained in the Stalinist model. These included

Boris Yeltsin, after his election as president of the Russian Republic, became a political rival to Gorbachev.

Elected president of the Russian Republic was a rival of Gorbachev, ________.

Eastern European nationalism in the 1990s

Václav Havel

The first official use of NATO forces was in Bosnia.

The greatest mortality from AIDS has occurred in Africa.