Exam 30: After the Fall: The Western World in a Global Age Since 1985

Because of the success of Russia's new free-market society, introduced after the collapse of the Soviet Union, by the early twenty-first century, less than five percent of the Russian people were still living in poverty.

Which of the following artists was a Neo-Expressionist?

All are correct about the war in Iraq that began in 2003 EXCEPT

Apple's iPad was introduced in

"al-Qaeda" means

In 1988, the first free parliamentary elections to occur in Eastern Europe for forty years took place in

What role has popular culture played in the Western world since 1985?

Challenges facing the European Union in the early twenty-first century include

All of the following are associated with the first presidency of Barack Obama EXCEPT

European debt crisis

The major issue that troubled Italian society in recent decades has been

The first independence movements among the Soviet republics during Gorbachev's rule occurred in the Baltic area of

How have terrorism and the war on terrorism suggested the advent of a "clash of civilizations"?

One of the underlying causes for the end of the Cold War was

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, elected pope in 2013, chose to take the name of which medieval saint?

In 2004, Yugoslavia officially ceased to exist when it was renamed Serbia and Montenegro.

The leader of Czechoslovakia in 1990 who replaced the Communist government was the former dissident writer and philosopher

Which of the following is NOT true of the video game industry?

What attitudes and actions have determined American foreign policy since 1985?

Under perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev