History 102 Whitaker ch.28 – Flashcards
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________________ used nationalism and sovereignty to capitalize on the fears and frustrations of the time that Serbs were feeling at the time.
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Slobodan Milosevic
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Arguably the most repressive dictatorship in Eastern Europe was that of Nicolae Ceausescu in:
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Romania.
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By the middle of the 1960s, although new industries in Europe continued to prosper,
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basic industries such as steel, coal, and railways were running up debt and deficits
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During the 1960s, although most African American leaders were working within the civil rights movement, some sought complete independence from white society. One such leader was:
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Malcolm X.
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For Europeans the civil rights movement was discomforting because:
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it reminded them of their own colonial injustices
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In 1963, Betty Friedan challenged many of the myths about women's roles, especially that of the supposedly happy housewife, in __________.
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The Feminine Mystique
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In 1968, the Soviet Union sent in troops and proclaimed the Brezhnev Doctrine to suppress the Prague spring, led by Alexander Dubček and other Czechoslovakian reformers who sought:
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to democratize the Czechoslovakian Communist party
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In 1973, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC):
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imposed an oil embargo against Western powers
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In November 1989, the embodiment of the Cold War, the _________, was torn down by ordinary citizens.
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Berlin Wall
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In the 1960s, US music charts began to be dominated by music from outside America with the
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"British invasion."
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Resentment by West Germans toward East Germans continued into the 1990s after the Berlin Wall came down because of a "wall in the mind," as it was called by
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Günter Grass.
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The "velvet revolution" in Czechoslovakia, in the end resulted in the Slovakian independence and the resignation of president:
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Václav Havel.
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The economies of the Soviet bloc also suffered during the 1970s as a result of inefficient per capita production and:
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high military expenditures
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The last general secretary of the Communist party of the Soviet Union, _________, resigned from office in January 1991.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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The new culture of mass consumption in Western Europe was marked by
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the institution of credit payments for purchases
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The Russian term perestroika refers to a
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program of economic restructuring in the Soviet Union
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The term ethnic cleansing was coined in reference to
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deliberate campaigns of terror conducted by Serbian irregular troops in Bosnia to force the flight of much larger populations of Muslims and Croatians.
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To what does the term velvet divorce refer?
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the collapse of Czechoslovakia into the separate nations of the Czech Republic and Slovakia
