18. The chinese communist movement in the 1960s and 1970s with the aim of crushing "the four olds" was known as
a. "the great leap forward"
b. "socialism in one country"
c. "all power to the people"
d. "the Great proletarian cultural revolution"
e. "the may fourth movement"

19. The american president who referred to the soviet union as the "evil empire" was
a. Richard Nixon
b. Jimmy Carter
c. ronald reagan
d. george bush
e. bill clinton

20. The major figure responsible for america's atomic bomb during WWII was
a. Albert Einstein
b. J. RObert Oppenheimer
c. Alan Turing
d. Karl Barth
e. Jacques Derrida

21. The ruling policies of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union
a. included the forcible exportation of russian communism to central and south america
b. evoked a "new thinking" about world affais and the balance of power leading to new arms limitation treatied and greater autonomy for Communist regimes in eastern europe
c. increased political repression in russia and in eastuern europe
d. grew out of russian misperceptions of united states strengths and failed to appreciate that american military spending and tax reductions under ronald reagan had greatly increased american budget deficits
e. led to a reform of soviet communism and the permanent strengthening of the soviet regime

22. after the breakup of the soviet union, the leader of russia became
a. boris yeltsin
b. andrei sakharov
c, leaonid brezhnev
d. josif venediktov
e. vladimir putin

23. boris yeltsin was succeeded as president of russia by
a. lech walesa
b. mikhail gorbachev
c. vladimir putin
d. yuri andropov
e. andrei sakharov

24. the leader of czechoslovakia in 1990 who replaced the communist government was the former dissident writer and philosopher
a. kadar
b. husak
c. dubcek
d. havel
e. dubrovnik

25. Probably the most symbolic events ending the cold war was
a. the death of mao
b. the helsinki accords
c. russia's defeat in the afghan war
d. the fall of the berlin wall
e. the election of boris yeltsin as president of the soviet union

26. the tactic of "ethnic cleansing" murdering or forcibly removing ethnic minorities from their lands in the former Yugoslavia, is a savage strategy of modern political terror practiced most brutally by
a. serbs
b. croatians
c. bosnians
d. herzgovenians
e. slovenes

27. the reunification of germany was accomplished under the leadership of
a. willy brandt
b. conrad adenauer
c. helmut schmidt
d. gunter grass
e. helmut kohl

28. By 1995, a major issue in french society was
a. whether to support america's "war on terror"
b. to rejoin NATO, which france had left in the 1960s
c. to leave the common market in protest to high subsidies to agriculture
d. resentment against immigrants
e. massive inflation

29. challenges facing the economic union in the early twetny-first century include
a. the lack of a common currency
b. the lack of military force
c. many europeans remain committed to a national identify and do not see themselves as "Europeans"
d. lack of economic assistance to Europe's farming community
e. the falure to create a truly single internal market

30. An example of nationist terrorism is the
a. baader-meinhof gang in germany
b. IRA in northern Ireland
c. New Order in Italy
d. Charles Martel Club in France
e. Al-Qaeda in the Middle East

TRUE OR FALSE:
31. Western Europe was the first are of disagreement between the US and the Soviet union after the end of WWII.
32. The US, Great Britain, and France initiated the Berlin Blokade to prevent Soviet troops from overrunning West Berlin.
33. The Cold War spread from Europe with the establisment of a communist regime in china in 1949.
34. In 1961, the West constructed the Berlin Wall to prevent East German communists from emegrating to western Europe
35. One of the most significant events of the Khrushchev regime was Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956.
36. France's Fourth Republic collapsed and Chales de Gaulle came to power in 1958 because of disastrous French defeats in Vietnam.
37. The Brezhnev Doctrinie claimed that the soviet union had the right to intervene if socialism was theatened in another socialist state.
38. The European city most famously associated with sexual permissiveness including prostitution and pornography was Paris.
39. After the construction of the Berliin Wall, East Germany developed th strongest economy amonth the Soviet union's eastern european satellites.
40. The French Socialist president who pursued a policy of nationalization of banks and industry in the 1980s was Francois Mitterrand.
41. Unlike Americas Ronald Reagan, Britain's Margaret Thatcher had little interest in foreign policy or international affairs.