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