Modern Era

The Russian leader who was in office at the downfall of the Soviet Union

• Gorbachev

• Breshnev

• Kruschev

• Stalin

Glasnost is best characterized as

• a form of re-Stalinization

• a restructuring of the economy

• a form of central planning

• more political and individual freedom

During the Cold War, which event happened last?

• Launching of SPUTNIK
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Berlin Airlift
• Destruction of Berlin Wall

After World War II, many Germans left East Germany to live in the more productive, democratic West Germany. How did the government of East Berlin try to contain defections from East to West Berlin?

• Improve conditions in East Berlin
• Allowed people to work in the West
• Allow them to leave as they please
• Build a wall to keep people from moving to west Berlin

What was Nixon's policy to ease tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union?

• containment

• Strength through Peace

• détente

• entente

The process of interconnecting the world's economies, cultures, and political power.

• globalization
• isolationism
• localization
• internationalization

This "iron lady" was the first female prime minister of Great Britain.

• Margaret Thacher

• Golda Meir

• Nevilla Chamberlain

First female prime minister of Israel

• Margaret Thacher

• Indira Ghandi

• Golda Meir

First Female prime minister of India

• Golda Meir

• Indira Ghandi

• Marharet Thacher

Organization of Arab countries that determines sale prices and quotas on oil production.

• WTO

• OPEC

• NATO

• UN