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SOCIAL STUDIES (WH) SELF-PAC 108 ST

Total questions: 41

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1 - 12. Please refer to the Map. Pace 108 - page 61 12 Items at 1.5 points each - Total Points : 18 Points

(a)  

2.

Anti-Communists in Nicaragua formed a group of freedom fighters called the (a)   to oppose the Communist Sandinista government.

3.

What is the meaning of NAFTA?

(a)  

4.
Name the three countries involved in the NAFTA. (in any order)
a)
Mexico, Japan, Canada
b)
Mexico, the United States, Great Britain
c)
Mexico, the United States, Canada
5.

The (a)   followed Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990.

6.

The Canadian province of (a)   , which has a predominantly French culture, voted on and defeated a referendum for separation in October 1995.

7.

The (a)   was erected because so many people were escaping from East Germany through West Berlin.

8.

Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the ________ Republic and ______________.

(a)  

9.

Yugoslavia split into (a)   nations, but its breakup was not peaceful.

10.

Fighting in those nations was most severe in (a)   .

11.

At its peak the Soviet Union consisted of _________ republics and controlled ________ satellite nations.

(a)  

12.

Today 12 of the ___________ independent nations formed from the Soviet Union are members of the CIS, or _____________.

(a)  

13.

The year (a)   was the year of revolution in Communist nations.

14.

EU, or (a)   , nations are trying to unite their resources in a single economy.

15.
Yasir Arafat
a)
Israel
b)
South Africa
c)
Egypt
d)
PLO
16.
Stephen Harper
a)
Great Britain
b)
United States
c)
Canada
d)
Germany
17.
Barack Obama
a)
Great Britain
b)
Canada
c)
United States
d)
Africa
18.
Binyamin Netanyahu
a)
Egypt
b)
Palestine
c)
Israel
d)
Libya
19.
Gordon Brown
a)
United States
b)
Canada
c)
Great Britain
d)
Germany
20.
Jacob Zuma
a)
Libya
b)
Egypt
c)
South America
d)
South Africa
21.
Hosni Mubarak
a)
Libya
b)
South Africa
c)
Israel
d)
Egypt
22.
Muammar al-Qaddafi
a)
PLO
b)
Egypt
c)
Israel
d)
Libya
23.
Lech Kaczynski Poland
a)
Germany
b)
Yugoslavia
c)
Poland
d)
Russia
24.
Vladimir Putin
a)
Egypt
b)
Slovenia
c)
Serbia
d)
Russia
25.
formerly known as Burma
a)
Belize
b)
Rwanda
c)
Myanmar
d)
Eritrea
26.
largest nation with a Communist government
a)
Yugoslavia
b)
Czechoslovakia
c)
Germany
d)
China
27.
last African nation to achieve independence
a)
Ehtiopia
b)
Myanmar
c)
Eritrea
d)
Bangladesh
28.
last Central American nation to achieve independence
a)
Myanmar
b)
Belize
c)
Eritrea
d)
Yugoslavia
29.
wrong because all people are created in God's image
a)
Hinduism
b)
apartheid
c)
Buddhism
30.
reunited after the fall of Communism
a)
Korea
b)
China
c)
Germany
d)
Russia
31.
split after the fall of Communism Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
a)
Serbia, Bosnia/Herzegovina
b)
Czechoslovakia, Zambia
c)
Yugoslavia, Germany
d)
Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia
32.
year Hong Kong was returned to China 1997
a)
1996
b)
1997
c)
1998
d)
1999
33.
year Panama took control of the canal 1999
a)
1997
b)
1998
c)
1999
d)
1996
34.

The belief that man can rule himself without the help of (a)   is basic to Communism.

35.

Operation (a)   forced the Taliban from power in Afghanistan.

36.

Although Syria claims the Golan Heights, (a)   has occupied it since 1981.

37.

The modern nation of Israel has existed only since (a)   .

38.

Most African nations were (a)   colonies before obtaining independence.

39.

The Tutsi and Hutu tribes have created tensions and fighting in ___________ and ______________.

(a)  

40.

God is using (a)   to carry His Word to many nations of the world.

41.

51-66. Please refer to PACE 108 page 63. 16 Items at 1 point each - Total = 16 points Please refer to the Time Line.

(a)