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