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SeU.S. president Jimmy Carter faced a serious international crisis when 52 Americans were held hostage in:

• Serbia.

• Iran.

• Iraq

• Benghazi

Gorbachev's initial economic reforms:

• perestroika

• détente

• glastnost

• laissez faire

By 1980 the Soviet Union was ailing from all of the following causes EXCEPT:

• too many political reforms

• poor working conditions

• a declining economy

• rising infant mortality

The United States was inclined to sign a nuclear weapons treaty in 1990 because it needed:

• to reduce military spending.

• to expand conventional weapons systems.

• to invade Afghanistan.

• Russian support against Iraq.

President Carter protested the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by:

• canceling U.S. participation in the 1980 Olympic Games.

• calling for U.N. sanctions against the U.S.S.R.

• placing high tariffs on grain exports to Russia.

• cancelling the INF treaty.

Organizer of Solidarity in Poland:

• Lech Walesa

• Vaclav Havel

• Slobodan Milosevic

• Nicolae Ceausescu

Serbian leader removed from power and tried for war crimes at the International Court of Justice:

• Slobodan Milosevic

• Nicolae Ceausescu

• Lech Walesa

• Vaclav Havel

Over what Yugoslavian province did a war erupt in 1998?

• Kosovo

• Croatia

• Serbia

• Slovenia

The Yugoslav republics included significant numbers of:

• Serb minorities.

• League of Nations mandates

• Slovak majorities.

• Chechen rebels.

In 1989, East Germany ordered the destruction of this Cold War Symbol:

• Berlin Wall.

• Munich Mural Monument.

• missile silos of Minsk.

• the Stalin Obelisk.