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