Chapter 30 Quiz

The End of the Cold War, Western Social Transformation, and the Developing World, 1963–1991
. _____are treaties aimed at discouraging countries from developing nuclear weapons.

. The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed the era of détente between the Soviet Union and the United States during which _____.

. The _____in the fall of 1973 abruptly ended the era of détente.

. The sweeping set of reforms introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1968, aimed at decentralization and a loosening of censorship restrictions, came to be known as the_____.

. The _____advanced the right of the Soviet Union to prevent any member of the Warsaw Pact from attempting to abandon the Soviet alliance.

. The_____(SDI), nicknamed "Star Wars", was an anti-ballistic missile defense system in outer space proposed by President Ronald Reagan in 1983.

. Perestroika ("restructuring") and_____("openness") were the two economic and political policies enacted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s in order to revitalize Communism.

. The fall of the infamous _____took place on the night of November 9, 1989, and marked the symbolic end of East Germany's Communist regime.

. The Soviet Union ended officially on Christmas Day 1991 and was replaced by the_____, with a now democratic Russia under Boris Yeltsin at its center.

. The massive mobilization of Americans during ________ accelerated civil rights efforts to combat segregation in the United States.

. The 1954 Supreme Board ruling on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, overturned the previous _____, which had upheld the notion that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional.

. Among the international conditions which also played a role in fueling the struggle to end desegregation in the United States were the postwar anticolonialist movement in Africa and _____.

. President _____secured the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

. Which group, formed in the 1960s, sought to end police harassment and advocate for better conditions for Native Americans?

. What event is often cited as the beginning of the modern gay rights movement?

. Baby boomers were born between

. With the founding of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1966, ______, a new term came to define the feminist movement in the late 1960s.

. The sharp rise in oil prices and the economic downturn it brought about would ultimately lead in the late 1970s to a phenomenon referred to as_____, a period of high inflation rate but with low economic growth rate.

. In 1966, Chairman Mao launched a violent critique of the direction of China's Communist Party, a phenomenon which became known as_____.

. The ascendancy of the pragmatic Deng Xiaoping to China's leadership brought about the 1978 announcement of_____, a set of policies which remain in place in China to this day.

. Communist China's new "open door" policies would allow the market forces of capitalism to create incentives for innovation and economic growth, and the nation's motto became _____.

. Among China's modernization policies in the late 1970s was the mandatory_____, which was aimed at alleviating population pressures that hindered Chinese development.

. In 2010, China surpassed _____as the second largest economy in the world, after the United States.

. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution expanded American involvement in what country?

. The Khmer Rouge was a _____which launched a national campaign of genocide against religious and political opponents in the 1970s.

. In 1964, Yasir Arafat founded_____, whose militant wing, Fatah, began a guerilla war against Israel and its backers.

. The _____was fought between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria in June 1967.

. In 1979, Egypt and Israel signed _____at Camp David, Maryland.

. The Lebanese Civil War was caused partially by the PLO's upsetting of the delicate balance among the different factions of the Lebanese state, which included:

. In 1979, Iranian shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown in favor of a

. The climax of South Africa´s rigid racial social structure came with the institution of legal racial segregation in the form of _____in 1948.

. Since the early 1960s, a guerrilla insurgency group called the Sandinistas had sought to overthrow the Somoza regime in ________.

. One of the most tragic episodes of the Cold War in Latin America was the____carried out in Argentina against suspected leftist by the military junta from 1976 to 1983.

. The kidnapped victims of the Argentine "Dirty War" came to be collectively known as the_____.

. Brazil's Cold War-era military dictatorship stayed in power primarily because of

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A map of north central Asia and eastern Europe shows the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The former republics of the Soviet Union gaining independence in 1991 were Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrghizstan, and Tajikistan. After December 1991, the Russian Federation included the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the present-day Russia. Chechnya in southwestern U S S R declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, and was at war with Russia between 1994 and 2000. East Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, and Lithuania were the former Warsaw Pact countries holding free elections between 1990 and 1992. Violent ethnic conflicts occurred around Chechnya, in Kyrghiztan, and in Tajikistan. An inset map shows the Russian Federation after 1991.


Which of the following Soviet republics gained their independence in 1991?

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Photo shows battle tanks on an empty road with a person standing before them.


Demonstrators at Tiananmen Square, like the man pictured above, sought what from the Chinese government?

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A photo shows military officers in various military vehicles and prisoners in a truck.


The Arab-Israeli War of June 1967, pictured above, was a resounding victory for what country?

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