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

Why should some parts of the world at the end of the twentieth century strongly reject so many aspects of Western culture?

The major new disease of the late 20th century is

A Communist country that made very successful economic changes without corresponding political changes was ________.

The new unit of currency for most of Western Europe is called the ________.

Do some of the events at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first centuries indicate that religion may be replacing nationalism as the most important historical force of the time? Why or why not?

Gorbachev's policy of glasnost (openness) meant

India and Poland were among the few countries still ruled according to the Soviet model by the late 1990s.

The country where al-Qaeda had its headquarters and training camps was

To an extent, the ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia were religious conflicts.

The bloodiest ethnic conflicts after the end of communism occurred in

Analyze the effects of the collapse of Communism outside Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Gorbachev's reform program in the Soviet Union led to

The text declares that there are reasons for both optimism and pessimism about the future. Choose and develop two major reasons for both the optimistic and the pessimistic views and determine which of these visions is more likely to be accurate.

Which of the following eastern European ethnic groups was not involved in the bloody civil wars in Yugoslavia?

Gorbachev's idea of openness, of curtailing censorship in the Soviet Union, permitting free discussion of ideas was called ________.

A label given to artistic and intellectual movements in the 1990s is ________.

The rise of Islamic so-called "fundamentalist" movement is an indication

Part of the Soviet economic problem in the 1980s was that central planning was unable to produce enough consumer goods or goods that met consumer demands.

A major problem in the Middle East has been the long-standing conflict between Israel and the________.

Describe the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Was this the result of the acts of Gorbachev or the result of long-term trends in the history of Communism?