Modern World Test Review 23 24

Select the item that is NOT true about the European Union.

• All member nations have a market economies

• All member nations are democracies

• All member nations are communist

• Most members use the same currency (Euro)

• There is is free trade and travel between the member nations

A major member of the E.U. just left the European Union. What is that country?

• Ukraine

• France

• Germany

• United Kingdom

Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) are challenging the US and the EU. How are they posing a threat as a group?

• Socially

• Politically

• Economically

Select the item that is NOT true about India and Pakistan.

• They became independent nations in 1947

• They get along well as neighboring countries in Asia

• There have been extreme tensions between them since their Partition.

• They both have nuclear weapons and could use them on each other.

Yugoslavia broke into multiple countries after the Soviet Union fell (and no longer forced the ethnic groups to stay together).

• True

• False

One of the countries that emerged as Yugoslavia broke apart started a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" against another group in their country. The country was:

• Germany

• Ukraine

• South Africa

• Serbia

"Ethnic Cleansing" means the same thing as:

• Extermination

• Taking a vaccine to prevent an illness

• Avoiding things that are dirty

What gender did Serbian Nationalists target for placement in concentration camps and extermination? This was called GENDERCIDE.

• Girls and women

• Boys and men

What is the name of the president that ordered poison gas attacks on people that disagreed with him in the northern part of his country. These attacks will be one of the reasons that the US believed he had weapons of mass destruction.

• Adolf Hitler

• Omar al Bashir

• Saddam Hussein

The group that is targeted for genocide in northern Iraq is:

• The Armenians

• The Jews

• The Kurds