Social Studies 108 – Flashcards
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Latin America contains how many nations
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33 nations
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The continent of Africa contains how many nations
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54 nation
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Unrest in Latin America during the 1980s and 1990s was caused by what
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economic conditions and conflicts between various political groups
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Who opposed President Somoza in Nicaragua
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European Union
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In Nicaragua the group opposing the Communist Sandinsta government was who
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Contras
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The Canadian province of where has a predominantly French culture and defeated a referendum for separation from the rest of Canada in October 1995
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Quebec
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NAFTA is abbrivation for
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North American Free Trade Agreement
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What was discovered in teh Middle East that has imporved the lifestyles of many of its people
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oil
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Jesus Christ is Israel's
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Messiah
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The Soviet Union included 15 ___ and controlled 6 __ nations at its peak
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republics..satellite
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Communism failed as both and ___ and a ___ system
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economic..school
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Communism failed because
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the existence and power of God
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What was constructed to prevent East Germans from escaping to the West
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THe Berlin Wall
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After an accident at the nuclear power plant where a radioactive cloud spread contamination into most of Europe
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Chernobyl
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EU stands for what
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European Union
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In many nations of the world, God is using _____ to carry the Good News of Jesus Christ
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Biblical education
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The year 1989 was know as what
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The Year of revolution
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China took control of___ in 1997, and ___ took control of the Panama Canal in 1999
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Hong Kong... Panama
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What followed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990
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Persian Gulf War
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After the fall of Communism in easter Europe, Czechoslovakia split into____, Yugoslavia into____, and the Soviet Union into ____
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2 republics, 5 nations, 15 republics
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Of the rpublic formed from the Soviet Union, 12 formed the CIS or called_____
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Commonwealth of Independent States
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The modern nation of Israel has existed only since
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1948
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Most African nations were once
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European colonies
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Operation Euduring Freedom forced the ____ from pwer in Afganistan
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India
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Yasir Arafat
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PLO
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Stephen Harper
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Canada
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Barack Obama
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United States
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Binyamin Netanyahu
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Israel
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Gordon Brown
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Great Britain
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Jacob Zuma
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South Africa
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Hosni Mubarak
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Egypt
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Muammar al-Qaddafi
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North Korea
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Kim Jong II
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Libya
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Lech Kaczynski
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Russia
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Valdimir Putin
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Israel
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Last African nation to receive independence
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Eritrea
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Last Central American nation to receive independence
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Belize
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Wrong because all people are created in God's image
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apartheid
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Created the EU
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Taliban
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Rose to power in Afghanistan in the mid 1990s
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Maastricht Treaty
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largest nation with a Communist government
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China
