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CLEP Western Civilization II: 1945 Present
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Answer 21 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Wanted socialism to come into the democracy.
New Left
Saddam Hussein
Boris Yeltsin
Treaty of Rome
2. 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.
Yugoslavia
Hati
1986
Osama bin Laden
3. The terrorists who attack the U.S. on September 11 - 2001.
Rachel Carson
Al Qaeda
existentialism
Dayton Accord
4. Leader of Iraq. The U.S. thought that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. They were wrong.
1986
Saddam Hussein
Simone de Beauvoir
ethnic cleansing
5. Spuspicion of truth.
Second Vatican Council
Algeria
postmodernism
Boris Yeltsin
6. Leader of Russia from 1991-2000
Treaty of Rome
1971
Boris Yeltsin
Hati
7. The Serbs killed thousands of people and forced the Muslims out. Slobodan Milosevic was the Serbs leader.
Yugoslavia
2003
ethnic cleansing
Dayton Accord
8. 1957. nations in Europe did not tax eachother on goods from their states in the treaty.
2003
Boris Yeltsin
existentialism
Treaty of Rome
9. 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.
Treaty of Maastricht
1971
1986
New Left
10. U.S. invaded Iraq
2003
1971
Yugoslavia
existentialism
11. Change some beliefs of the Catholic Church. Such as reasons for having children.
1986
Rachel Carson
Boris Yeltsin
Second Vatican Council
12. Nuclear accident and worried people about global warming.
Dayton Accord
Yugoslavia
1986
Saddam Hussein
13. Got freedom from France in 1962
Algeria
Treaty of Rome
Suez Canal
Hati
14. The person makes life meaningful in their own way even though life is strange. Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre
Rachel Carson
existentialism
Yugoslavia
Treaty of Rome
15. 1995. Bosia got independence.
1971
Osama bin Laden
Hati
Dayton Accord
16. 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.
ethnic cleansing
Osama bin Laden
1986
existentialism
17. Gamal Abdal Nasser said that Egypt owned it in 1956. This could harm America and France's oil supply.
Algeria
Al Qaeda
Suez Canal
ethnic cleansing
18. 18 year old were given the right to vote.
Boris Yeltsin
1986
Dayton Accord
1971
19. 2004 U.S. and France went there to help get order.
Boris Yeltsin
Hati
Algeria
Al Qaeda
20. Started the enviromental movement with her book Silent Spring.
Rachel Carson
Yugoslavia
postmodernism
Treaty of Rome
21. Wrote: The Second Sex. Was a feminist.
Yugoslavia
Simone de Beauvoir
existentialism
2003