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CLEP Western Civilization II: 1945 Present

Subjects : clep, history
Instructions:
  • Answer 21 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Leader of Russia from 1991-2000






2. Wanted socialism to come into the democracy.






3. The Serbs killed thousands of people and forced the Muslims out. Slobodan Milosevic was the Serbs leader.






4. Started the enviromental movement with her book Silent Spring.






5. 2004 U.S. and France went there to help get order.






6. 1957. nations in Europe did not tax eachother on goods from their states in the treaty.






7. 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.






8. 18 year old were given the right to vote.






9. Nuclear accident and worried people about global warming.






10. The terrorists who attack the U.S. on September 11 - 2001.






11. Gamal Abdal Nasser said that Egypt owned it in 1956. This could harm America and France's oil supply.






12. Got freedom from France in 1962






13. U.S. invaded Iraq






14. Spuspicion of truth.






15. Wrote: The Second Sex. Was a feminist.






16. Leader of Iraq. The U.S. thought that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. They were wrong.






17. Change some beliefs of the Catholic Church. Such as reasons for having children.






18. 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.






19. The person makes life meaningful in their own way even though life is strange. Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre






20. 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.






21. 1995. Bosia got independence.