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Which of the following three nations were admitted to full membership in the European union effective January 1, 1995

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Austria, Sweden, Finland

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The primary basis for the rebellion in Chechnya is

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nationalism

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As of the beginning of the 21st century, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was made up of which regions on the map

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J, K, and M

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How long did the European Union give its member nations to prepare for the adoption of the euro as a Europe-wide currency that would replace national currencies

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Three years

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The Channel Tunnel that opened in May 1994 was significant because it

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enables trains and automobiles to travel between Britain and France

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The Serbs in Bosnia and Herzegovina rebelled against the Muslim-dominated government in mid-1992. Later in the year, what other ethnic group began fighting to dismember Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Croatians

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Which of the following best described the relationship between the European Union and the former communist nations of Eastern Europe in 2002? The European Union had

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accepted the applications of four of them for full membership

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The euro, announced by the European Union, is

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the single currency for most European Union members

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Russian voters ratified a new constitution in December 1993. The provisions of the new constitution

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increased the powers of the president (more this one) or made the presidency a figurehead position by giving most power to a prime minister

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Which three former communist nations in Eastern Europe were admitted to NATO in 1999

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A, B, E

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After NATO intervention forced the armed forces of Yugoslavia to withdraw from Kosovo in 1999, what became the official, internationally recognized political status of Kosovo

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It was an autonomous part of Yugoslavia

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Which of the following statements correctly describes Europe's position in early 2003 regarding an attack on Iraq for violating United Nations resolutions on disarmament? Most nations

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supported the United State's position

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The parliamentary elections in Russia in December 1995 gave the largest number of seats in the state duma to

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the communists

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Many European nations condemned Austria and imposed temporary sanctions in 2000 because

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a rightwing party whose leader expressed neo-Nazi ideas became part of the ruling coalition

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The increase in demonstrations in the early 1990's by right-wing groups in Europe indicate

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a revival of anti-Semitism and resentment toward immigrants and refugees

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Before the Dayton Accord (which ended the Bosian war) the largest contingent of United States armed forces serving as peacekeepers in the republics of former Yugoslavia was in

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Macedonia

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In 1999, disputes within which largely Albanian region of Serbia became the pretext for NATO's first war in its 50- year history

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Kosovo

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The "Partnership for Peace" in Europe refers to

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an association of NATO and other European nations

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The Maastricht Treaty that went into effect in November 1993 for the then 12 members of the European Union (formerly the European Community)

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promoted the creation of a common currency and central bank for the European Union nations

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In March 2000, who was elected as Russia's second president since the fall of the Soviet Union

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Putin

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Which two nations were formed by a division of a single former nation in 1993 in what was called the "velvet revolution" because it was peaceful and unopposed

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B and C

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Which nation of the former Soviet Union has established the closet relations with Russia

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Nation 4

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The Eastern European nation that separated peacefully into two nations in 1993 was

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Czechoslovakia

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The letter B on the map, marking a region that was in dispute between Russia and Ukraine, is a peninsula called

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crimea

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Politics in Italy took a dramatic turn in spring of 1994 when national elections resulted in a parliamentary majority for

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a coalition of conservatives and neo-fascist

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In 1997 which country disclosed that it had close financial ties with Nazi Germany during the Second World War

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Switzerland

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Boris Yeltsin was re-elected as president of Russia in 1996 despite all of the following, EXCEPT

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the opposition of leaders of Western democracies

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By 2002, only two of the original six republics remained within the federal republic of Yugoslavia. They were

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Serbia and Montenegro

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Voter approval of a peace plan between representatives of the British government and leaders of Sinn Fein have raised hopes that the decades-long conflict may be resolved in

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region 2

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The president of France elected in 1995 to a seven- year term was

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Jacques Chirac

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The secretary-general elected to a five-year term in 1997 was

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kofi annan

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In 1994, the two adversaries in the Bosian War who made peace with each other and formed a federation were the

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Croats and Muslims

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The secretary-general of the United Nations who began his five-year term of Office in January 1997 was the first secretary-general

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Sub- Saharan Africa

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The former Soviet Union is threatened by further unrest and division by

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different ethnic groups within the republics seeking independence

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One of the few nations in western Europe that has NOT joined the European Union is

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nation 3

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Since its formation in 1949, NATO military intervention FIRST occurred in

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Yugoslavia 1999

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Soon after the breakup of the Soviet Union, President Yeltsin of Russia sought assistance from the United States and Western Europe to

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restore the former Soviet Union

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How many members of the United Nations were there at the end of 2007

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192

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The conviction in 2003 by a German court of a Moroccan man as a terrorist was notable because he was

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the first accessory to the September 11th terrorist attack

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What do nations 7, 8, 11, 12, and 13, all former members of the soviet union that became independent in 1991, have in common

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they all have populations that are mostly muslim

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The five shaded regions on the map were formerly part of the nation of

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yugoslavia

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The International war crimes tribunal meeting at The Hague indicted a number of persons as war criminals because of their actions during the

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fighting in bosnia and herzegovina

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Which came FIRST in the sequence of developments in the breakup of Yugoslavia

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Croatia and Slovenia declare independence

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By the time the euro was introduced, which European Union country failed to meet the requirements for participation in the monetary union

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greece

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The major economic problem facing the industrialized nations of western Europe in the first half of the 1990s was

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high unemployment

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In 2002 and 2003, which three European nations called for continued inspections by the United nations in Ira before considering the military attack being promoted by the United States

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France Germany and russia

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The general trend in 1996 in the former communist nations in Eastern Europe (that started to reverse in 2000) was for their government to

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reject leaders who were communists or former communists

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The only nation to be expelled from the United Nations was

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yugoslavia

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The fighting in Chechnya ended in 1996 with a cease-fire that was widely perceived as

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an embarrassing humiliation for russia

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In the summer of 1994, the government of what remained of Yugoslavia began blocking supplies from reaching the bosian serbs in bosnia and Herzegovina because

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U.N. economic sanctions against

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One of the outstanding issues that strained relations between Russia and Ukraine was resolved in 1995 when the leaders of the two nations agreed that

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they would divide the black sea fleet of the former soviet navy

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When Boris Yeltsin resigned in December 1999, he had been president of Russia for how many years

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eight years

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Boris Yeltsin prevailed in a confrontation with the Russian legislature in the fall of 1993 because

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the army obeyed his orders to seize the parliament building and arrest its leaders

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The people who suffered the most from the murder, rape, bombing, and forced relocation in the course of the course of the conflict in bosnia and Herzegovina (that began in 1992) are the

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muslims

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The indictment of Slobodan Milosevic by the International War crimes tribunal was notable because he was the

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first head of state to be

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The Maastricht Treaty to further integrate the economies of the members of the European Union (called the European community until 1994) had been stalled by the

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objections raised by nationalist groups to further economic integration

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IFOR, the Implementation Force sent to Bosnia to enforce the Dayton Accord, was a multinational military mission made up

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of soldiers from NATO nations and Russia

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In the late 1990's, NATO initiated its first military intervention in Europe by making heavy bombing attacks to stop genocidal ethnic cleansing by serbs in region

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M

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The letter A on the map identifies a region that is

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a separated western province

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which statement best reflects Russia's relationship with NATO

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Russia accepted a loose

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The Dayton accord for peace in Bosnia provided for all of the following EXCEPT

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the designation of Sarajevo as an international city under United Nations contol

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Which of the independent nations created in 1991 and 1992 from the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is CORRECTLY matched with its capital city

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Slovenia - Lubljana

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Many ethnic Russians who had lived for many years in the non-Russian nations of the former Soviet Union have left them to return to Russia because

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they experienced discrimination

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Individual countries, the united nations and other international organizations have NOT intervened in the long conflict in Chechnya because

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they regard the conflict as an internal

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By the end of 2001, many European nations responded to the threat of terrorism by all of the following means EXCEPT

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extraditing

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According to the agreement that ended the bosnia war, a Bosnian serb self-governing republic within the nation of bosnia was given control of what percentage of the land area of bosnia and herzegovina

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49%

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Turkey's application for membership in the European union "dragged on for years" for all of the following reasons ECEPT

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turkey's harboring of muslim terrorists

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Which of the following best describes the political status of the region Chechnya in the former Soviet Union

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Chechnya is a republic within the Russian Federation that is trying to secede

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The strongest all of the United States in supporting military attacks on Afghanistan in retaliation for the terrorist attacks on the world trade center and pentagon was

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Great britain

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Which of the following nations was NOT part of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia before it began to break up in 1991

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Nation N

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The last major armed conflict in Europe was

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Yugoslavia's military action against kosovo

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Massive demonstrations in Belgrade and other Serbian cities in late September and early October 2000 that led to the overthrow of President Slobodan Milosevic were sparked by

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attempts to rig presidential elections

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In 2002, the European union accepted the applications of 10 nations for membership. The accepted applicants included all of the following nations EXCEPT

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Turkey

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The mission of UNPROFOR (The United Nations Protective Force) when it was sent to Bosnia in 1992, was to

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monitor cease-fire agreements and escort relief convoys

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