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In the area of social policy, the 1980s and 1990s in Western countries witnessed
A) an upsurge in spending on social welfare programs as a rrrrresult of increased tax receipts
generated by the high-tech boom
B) a decline in government support for the welfare state and a return of nineteenth-century
liberal values with their championship of competition, individualism, and life of privilege for the
well to do
C) a widespread return to family values and a concomitant decline in rate of divorce and single-
parent households
D) a rising concern with excessive population growth and a cancellation of programs that had
given financial aid to women having two or more children B
During this period, some observers had predicted "huge clashes" between all the following
EXCEPT
A) nonmilitaristic European nations allied with other peace-seeking states, confronting an
imperial United States
B) a newly united Germany and other weaker European states
C) between civilizations based on the incompatibility of Western and non-Western culture
D) between Islam and the West B
The principle difficulty of historians in assessing the events of this period is the
A) difficulty of evaluating Internet sources
B) problem of proliferation of languages and cultural perspectives
C) decline of history as a subject in western universities
D) lack of perspective that makes it difficult to evaluate the significance of events D
In 1990, when Serb Commie Slobodan Milosevic won the presidency of Serbia and began to
claim Serb ascendancy over the Yugoslav federation as a whole, several major eruptions of
violence occurred. Which of the following did NOT occur?
,A) All sides that undertook ethnic cleansing not only committed acts of genocide but also
destroyed the cultural heritage of their opponents
B) Civil war broke out in Bosnia-Herzegovina between the Muslim majority, who tried to create
a multicultural and multiethnic state, and a guerrilla army of Bosnia Serbs backed by Milosevic's
government
C) The United Nations stepped in to halt the genocide and destruction in the Balkans as soon as
the scale of violence was known
D) Bosnian Muslims were unable to defend themselves from massacre by Serbs because of UN
arms embargo C
In 1991, a group of antireform hard liners, from the Soviet vice president to the head of the
KGB, staged a coup in the Russian Republic in response to
A) The Russian Parliament's election of Boris Yeltsin as president
B) Mikhail Gorbachev's pronouncement that there was "no alternative to the transition to the
market" and his decision to further liberalize the economy
C) President Boris Yeltsin's call for dissolution of the Communist Party
D) Gorbachev's and Kohl's agreement that the USSR would withdraw its forces completely from
East German soil within the next four years A
The demise of the Soviet Union in the 1990s not only led to the establishment of new
democratic republics in formerly Soviet controlled territories but also led to
A) The end of NATO, since the threat from the Warsaw Pact nations had ended
B) increased democracy in other Communist states, most notably China
C) a dramatic improvement in living conditions for former Soviet citizens
D) an increase in ethnic conflicts in many of the newly independent states as different ethnic
groups struggled for land and power D
Which of the following was NOT a reason for the brain drain that occurred after the fall of the
Soviet empire?
A) Migrants left to escape banditry and violence inflected by organized crime
,B) Many migrants fled increasing anti-Semitism, as post-Communists politicians used anti-
Semitism to build a following in the same way that Hitler and others had done
C) Austria and Germany received the most migrants
D) The migrants were mainly composed of those who supported communism D
The war in Chechnya began when Chechnyans
A) bought large amounts of military equipment from the United States
B) declared independence from Russia
C) joined the European Community
D) invaded their neighbor, the Ukraine B
In 1994, by the terms of the Maastricht Treaty, the European community
A) became the European Union
B) created a common currency, the European Currency Unit (ECU or euro)
C) established formal trade ties with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
D) accepted for membership Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic A
The formation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a free-trade zone of the
United States, Canada, and Mexico was provoked by
A) the enormous success of the "tiger" economies of the Far East"
B) growing fragmentation following the collapse of the USSR
C) the economic success--of the potential competition from-- the European Union
D) wars and civil strife across the world C
One consequence of the tremendous worldwide migrations due to decolonization, war and
famine in the 1980s and 1990s was
A) The decline in national identities in favor of transnational ones that incorporated elements of
different cultures
, B) a rise in the standard of living in Western countries that accepted migrants because they
contributed substantially to the tax base that provided basic social services
C) the rejection of Western culture by many immigrants who believed that this had brought
about the problems that caused them to flee their homes
D) a rise in he use of computer-based distance education, because the host countries had
insufficient numbers of teachers to provide for the new migrant needs A
During this period, growing--but unsuccessful--demands for autonomy from larger nation-states
were made by various ethnic groups, including
A) Czechs and Slovaks
B) Basque nationalists in Spain
C) Croatians and Serbs wishing to secede from the Yugoslav state
D) Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians B
In the late twentieth century, fossil-fuel pollutants such as those from natural gas, coal, and oil,
mixed with atmospheric moisture, were blamed for causing
A) smog in urban areas
B) acid rain, which was responsible for killing vast areas of forests
C) a hole in the earth's ozone layer
D) clorofluorocarbons (CFCs) B
E.F. "Fritz" Schumacher, an escapee from Nazi Germany, published Small is Beautiful (1973),
A) a key text of the environmental movement, which spelled out how tech and industrialization
threatened life on earth
B) a critique of growing globalization
C) which advocated the creation of many smaller nation-states based on the ethnicity of their
populations
D) which advocated the immediate rescue of rivers, forests, and soil from the effects of the
pollution caused by industrial activity and chemical farming A
In the area of social policy, the 1980s and 1990s in Western countries witnessed
A) an upsurge in spending on social welfare programs as a rrrrresult of increased tax receipts
generated by the high-tech boom
B) a decline in government support for the welfare state and a return of nineteenth-century
liberal values with their championship of competition, individualism, and life of privilege for the
well to do
C) a widespread return to family values and a concomitant decline in rate of divorce and single-
parent households
D) a rising concern with excessive population growth and a cancellation of programs that had
given financial aid to women having two or more children B
During this period, some observers had predicted "huge clashes" between all the following
EXCEPT
A) nonmilitaristic European nations allied with other peace-seeking states, confronting an
imperial United States
B) a newly united Germany and other weaker European states
C) between civilizations based on the incompatibility of Western and non-Western culture
D) between Islam and the West B
The principle difficulty of historians in assessing the events of this period is the
A) difficulty of evaluating Internet sources
B) problem of proliferation of languages and cultural perspectives
C) decline of history as a subject in western universities
D) lack of perspective that makes it difficult to evaluate the significance of events D
In 1990, when Serb Commie Slobodan Milosevic won the presidency of Serbia and began to
claim Serb ascendancy over the Yugoslav federation as a whole, several major eruptions of
violence occurred. Which of the following did NOT occur?
,A) All sides that undertook ethnic cleansing not only committed acts of genocide but also
destroyed the cultural heritage of their opponents
B) Civil war broke out in Bosnia-Herzegovina between the Muslim majority, who tried to create
a multicultural and multiethnic state, and a guerrilla army of Bosnia Serbs backed by Milosevic's
government
C) The United Nations stepped in to halt the genocide and destruction in the Balkans as soon as
the scale of violence was known
D) Bosnian Muslims were unable to defend themselves from massacre by Serbs because of UN
arms embargo C
In 1991, a group of antireform hard liners, from the Soviet vice president to the head of the
KGB, staged a coup in the Russian Republic in response to
A) The Russian Parliament's election of Boris Yeltsin as president
B) Mikhail Gorbachev's pronouncement that there was "no alternative to the transition to the
market" and his decision to further liberalize the economy
C) President Boris Yeltsin's call for dissolution of the Communist Party
D) Gorbachev's and Kohl's agreement that the USSR would withdraw its forces completely from
East German soil within the next four years A
The demise of the Soviet Union in the 1990s not only led to the establishment of new
democratic republics in formerly Soviet controlled territories but also led to
A) The end of NATO, since the threat from the Warsaw Pact nations had ended
B) increased democracy in other Communist states, most notably China
C) a dramatic improvement in living conditions for former Soviet citizens
D) an increase in ethnic conflicts in many of the newly independent states as different ethnic
groups struggled for land and power D
Which of the following was NOT a reason for the brain drain that occurred after the fall of the
Soviet empire?
A) Migrants left to escape banditry and violence inflected by organized crime
,B) Many migrants fled increasing anti-Semitism, as post-Communists politicians used anti-
Semitism to build a following in the same way that Hitler and others had done
C) Austria and Germany received the most migrants
D) The migrants were mainly composed of those who supported communism D
The war in Chechnya began when Chechnyans
A) bought large amounts of military equipment from the United States
B) declared independence from Russia
C) joined the European Community
D) invaded their neighbor, the Ukraine B
In 1994, by the terms of the Maastricht Treaty, the European community
A) became the European Union
B) created a common currency, the European Currency Unit (ECU or euro)
C) established formal trade ties with the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
D) accepted for membership Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic A
The formation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a free-trade zone of the
United States, Canada, and Mexico was provoked by
A) the enormous success of the "tiger" economies of the Far East"
B) growing fragmentation following the collapse of the USSR
C) the economic success--of the potential competition from-- the European Union
D) wars and civil strife across the world C
One consequence of the tremendous worldwide migrations due to decolonization, war and
famine in the 1980s and 1990s was
A) The decline in national identities in favor of transnational ones that incorporated elements of
different cultures
, B) a rise in the standard of living in Western countries that accepted migrants because they
contributed substantially to the tax base that provided basic social services
C) the rejection of Western culture by many immigrants who believed that this had brought
about the problems that caused them to flee their homes
D) a rise in he use of computer-based distance education, because the host countries had
insufficient numbers of teachers to provide for the new migrant needs A
During this period, growing--but unsuccessful--demands for autonomy from larger nation-states
were made by various ethnic groups, including
A) Czechs and Slovaks
B) Basque nationalists in Spain
C) Croatians and Serbs wishing to secede from the Yugoslav state
D) Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians B
In the late twentieth century, fossil-fuel pollutants such as those from natural gas, coal, and oil,
mixed with atmospheric moisture, were blamed for causing
A) smog in urban areas
B) acid rain, which was responsible for killing vast areas of forests
C) a hole in the earth's ozone layer
D) clorofluorocarbons (CFCs) B
E.F. "Fritz" Schumacher, an escapee from Nazi Germany, published Small is Beautiful (1973),
A) a key text of the environmental movement, which spelled out how tech and industrialization
threatened life on earth
B) a critique of growing globalization
C) which advocated the creation of many smaller nation-states based on the ethnicity of their
populations
D) which advocated the immediate rescue of rivers, forests, and soil from the effects of the
pollution caused by industrial activity and chemical farming A
