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

The political shift to the right in many European countries and the United States in the 1980's had, as one of its main causes,

Gorbachev's glasnost was a plan for armaments reduction.

The post-1980s global economy

How and why did Gorbachev's concepts of Perestroika and Glasnost end up weakening rather than strengthening the Soviet Union?

In the 1980s the general political direction of Europe and America shifted toward the ________

The Maastricht Treaty of 1992 was

Can the euro be regarded as the culmination of economic and political tendencies in Western Europe? Why or why not?

During the breakup of the Soviet Union, Eastern European countries gained their political and economic autonomy. The first country to do so, because it already had a strong anti-Communist trade union movement, was

The Soviet Union in the 1980s

Which one of these events happened in Europe during the late 1980s and 1990s?

According to the text, two countries rose considerably in stature, power and influence with the collapse of Communism: the United States and

Boris Yeltsin became so unpopular that he was defeated for reelection as president of Russia in 1996.

Gorbachev's perestroika meant an increased crackdown in intellectual dissent.

Problems faced by the world in the 1990s included all of the following except

Problems facing the Soviet Union in the 1980s included all of the following except

Replacing the United States in the 1980s as the world's topmost creditor nation was

The early 1990s were marked by

In the 1980s the general political tendency in both the Untied States and Europe was toward the political right.

East German discontent was in part caused by

Japan became the world's foremost creditor nation in the 1990s.