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CLEP Western Civilization II: 1945 Present
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Answer 21 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The Serbs killed thousands of people and forced the Muslims out. Slobodan Milosevic was the Serbs leader.
Yugoslavia
Simone de Beauvoir
ethnic cleansing
Dayton Accord
2. Nuclear accident and worried people about global warming.
Osama bin Laden
1986
Suez Canal
Simone de Beauvoir
3. Started the enviromental movement with her book Silent Spring.
Second Vatican Council
existentialism
Saddam Hussein
Rachel Carson
4. 1991. said there should be a common money in Europe. in 2001 a lot of western Europe had done this. It was called the euro.
1971
Treaty of Maastricht
Saddam Hussein
existentialism
5. The person makes life meaningful in their own way even though life is strange. Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre
2003
Boris Yeltsin
Second Vatican Council
existentialism
6. 2004 U.S. and France went there to help get order.
Dayton Accord
Hati
Treaty of Maastricht
Treaty of Rome
7. 18 year old were given the right to vote.
Suez Canal
Al Qaeda
ethnic cleansing
1971
8. Spuspicion of truth.
New Left
Osama bin Laden
Treaty of Maastricht
postmodernism
9. A civil war started there when the anti-Nazi Marshal Tito died and in 1990 when Slovenia and Croatia said they were no free from Yugoslavia.
Rachel Carson
Algeria
Yugoslavia
Dayton Accord
10. Got freedom from France in 1962
Rachel Carson
Treaty of Maastricht
Algeria
existentialism
11. 1957. nations in Europe did not tax eachother on goods from their states in the treaty.
Second Vatican Council
Boris Yeltsin
Treaty of Rome
Hati
12. Leader of Russia from 1991-2000
1971
Boris Yeltsin
existentialism
Rachel Carson
13. 1995. Bosia got independence.
postmodernism
Dayton Accord
Rachel Carson
Second Vatican Council
14. Change some beliefs of the Catholic Church. Such as reasons for having children.
Boris Yeltsin
Second Vatican Council
Suez Canal
Dayton Accord
15. Gamal Abdal Nasser said that Egypt owned it in 1956. This could harm America and France's oil supply.
Treaty of Maastricht
Osama bin Laden
Treaty of Rome
Suez Canal
16. The terrorists who attack the U.S. on September 11 - 2001.
2003
Suez Canal
Yugoslavia
Al Qaeda
17. Leader of Iraq. The U.S. thought that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. They were wrong.
postmodernism
Saddam Hussein
Yugoslavia
Rachel Carson
18. U.S. invaded Iraq
2003
ethnic cleansing
1971
1986
19. Wanted socialism to come into the democracy.
Simone de Beauvoir
1971
Rachel Carson
New Left
20. A rich radical who helped fund the Taliban. Muslims from around the world who gave Vladimir Putin a hard time during his presidency. They fought a war with Russia in Chechnya.
Osama bin Laden
Boris Yeltsin
1971
Suez Canal
21. Wrote: The Second Sex. Was a feminist.
Yugoslavia
Simone de Beauvoir
1971
Treaty of Maastricht