chapter 35

Question 1

Democracies hope for free ____ so that all people can participate in the political process.

Answer 1

Elections

Question 2

A Clear body of traditions and laws on which government is based requires a _____ for the government in a democracy.

Answer 2

Constitution

Question 3

The South American nation has struggled in obtaining democracy for their Portuguese speaking peoples.

Answer 3

Brazil

Question 4

Brazilian dictator in the 1930s.

Answer 4

Vargas

Question 5

This Brazilian city nearly bankrupted the country in the early 1960s.

Answer 5

Brasilia

Question 6

In the early 1980s, Brazil experienced a severe _____, a slow down of the economy.

Answer 6

Recession

Question 7

Initials to the leading Mexican political party during the 2nd half of the 1900s.

Answer 7

PRI

Question 8

The Mexican economy of the 1950s-1990s revolved around the price of ____.

Answer 8

Oil

Question 9

The treaty between the US, Mexico, and Canada removed trade barriers between the countries.

Answer 9

NAFTA

Question 10

First independent leader of the Mexican government in 2000.

Answer 10

Fox

Question 11

Leader of Argentina in the late 1940s-1950s.

Answer 11

Peron

Question 12

There was a British-Argentine war in the ______ Islands in the 1980s.

Answer 12

Falkland

Question 13

The ____ chose not to continue to fund the Argentine government in 2001 which led to the country’s bankruptcy.

Answer 13

IMF

Question 14

Former British colony in central Africa with a very diverse population.

Answer 14

Nigeria

Question 15

Losing side in the Nigerian Civil War in the late 1960s.

Answer 15

Igbo

Question 16

This commodity provided a lot of money to the Nigerian improvement goals, though it was fought over by the rebels.

Answer 16

Oil

Question 17

Obansanjo was the most recently elected president of this African country in 1999-2003.

Answer 17

Nigeria

Question 18

Nigeria’s economy could only recover with _____ relief which George W. Bush supported in 2001.

Answer 18

Debt

Question 19

The unique South African policy of ______ required complete separation of the races.

Answer 19

Apartheid

Question 20

South African ANC leader jailed and held for two decades, later to become president of South Africa.

Answer 20

Mandela

Question 21

South African Catholic Bishop who asked for countries not to invest in South Africa as long as Apartheid continued.

Answer 21

Tutu

Question 22

____ was South African president that instituted the first free elections where all races could vote in 1994.

Answer 22

De klerk

Question 23

This was a lethal epidemic affecting millions of Africans by the 2010s.

Answer 23

AIDS

Question 24

This was the ruling committee of the Soviet communist party.

Answer 24

Politburo

Question 25

Soviet idea of an open society where ideas flowed freely.

Answer 25

Glasnost

Question 26

Perestroika was an ______ restructuring of the soviet economy beginning in the 1980s.

Answer 26

Economic

Question 27

Soviet-American Atomic Treaty of 1987.

Answer 27

INF

Question 28

Last leader of the Soviet Union.

Answer 28

Gorbachev

Question 29

First leader of an independent Russian Federation.

Answer 29

Yeltsin

Question 30

Reforming the Russian economy required _____ therapy to shift to a free-market system.

Answer 30

Shock

Question 31

Muslim _____ rebelled against Russian control in 1991 leading to a savage war in the south.

Answer 31

Chechnya

Question 32

Current (2024) ruler of Russia.

Answer 32

Putin

Question 33

First eastern European country to break with the Soviets in 1980.

Answer 33

Poland

Question 34

This political party was led by Lech Walesa who won control of Polish government in 1989.

Answer 34

Solidarity

Question 35

By 2000, much of former Russian Influenced nations of Eastern Europe had joined ______.

Answer 35

NATO

Question 36

Honecker was the last communist leader of this country.

Answer 36

East Germany

Question 37

On October, 1990, this former split country reunified.

Answer 37

Germany

Question 38

Capital city of the new Czechoslovakia.

Answer 38

Prague

Question 39

Dictator Ceausescu tried to retain control in this country until captured and executed in December 1989.

Answer 39

Romania

Question 40

This southern European country split up into smaller states in the 1990s.

Answer 40

Yugoslavia

Question 41

NATO military forces bombed Serbian and Yugoslav forces in this state until withdrawal in 1999.

Answer 41

Kosovo

Question 42

Zhou Enlai played an important role in this country in the 1970s.

Answer 42

China

Question 43

This sport led to cooperation between Americans and Chinese in over 25 years.

Answer 43

Ping pong

Question 44

Deng Xiaoping lead to the Four Modernizations program in this country.

Answer 44

China

Question 45

Democracy protests in _____ Square led to mass violence in China.

Answer 45

Tiananmen

Question 46

The _____ of Democracy was erected in China by students protesting for democratic changes.

Answer 46

Goddess

Question 47

This former British colony was transferred to communist Chinese control in 1997.

Answer 47

Hong kong

Question 48

The 2008 summer Olympics were held in _____.

Answer 48

Beijing