World History 2024 Quiz 9.3 - Cold War Ends

In the late 1960’s, Alexander Dubcek attempted to reform _________ in a period known as the Prague Spring but was crushed by the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations.

• Czechoslovakia

• Hungary

• Poland

• Yugoslavia

The development and use of chemical agents or viruses as a weapon

• is known as biowarfare and bioterrorism.

• has not happened in the modern age.

• is widely accepted by all nations in the world.

• is not a problem today.

This word literally means openness in Russian like free speech

• Perestroika

• Detente

• Glasnost

• Pravda

The 1986 Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union led directly to

• fear of nuclear power use today.

• acid rain storms.

• decreased numbers of nuclear missiles.

• global warming to increase.

The book _______ started environmental awareness in 1962.

• Global Warning

• Bad Humans

• One Earth

• Silent Spring

The first global agreement on the environment signed by 150 nations in 1997 was the

• Ocean Act

• Geneva Accord

• Climate Agreement

• Kyoto Protocol

Large multinational corporations and the World Trade Federation (WTO) always put human safety and the environment above profit.

• True

• False

Global Warming was first talked about as

• the Greenhouse Effect.

• Thermal Acceleration

• Polar Decline.

• the Solar Effect.

After being divided for 45 years into a free West and Communist East, this country was unified again in 1990

• France

• Germany

• Poland

• Russia

What does detente mean?

• Making things worse

• Easing of tensions

• Building more nuclear missiles

• Restructuring