Chapter 28: The Contemporary Western World

George Bush

________, Reagans vice president, succeeded him as president.

Total federal spending

________ rose from $ 631 billion in 1981 to over a trillion dollars by 1987.

East Germanys

During ________ first free elections in March 1990, the Christian Democrats won almost 50 percent of the vote.

Budget deficit

A(n) ________ exists when the government spends more than it collects in revenues.

Canada

During a major economic recession in ________ in the early 1960s, the Liberals came into power.

Détente

________ received a major setback in 1979, when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan.

Thatcher

________ dominated British politics in the 1980s.

Russia

In July 2001, Putin launched reforms aimed at boosting growth and budget revenues and keeping ________ on a strong economic track.

Gorbachev

________ resigned on December 25, 1991, and turned over his responsibilities as commander in chief to Boris Yeltsin, the new president of Russia.

West Germany

In 1969, the Social Democrats, a moderate Socialist party, replaced the Christian Democrats as the leading party in ________.

terrorists

Some ________ are militant nationalists who wish to create separatist states.

Postmodernism

________ is marked by a revival of traditional elements and techniques, including not only traditional painting styles but also traditional crafts.

Erich Honecker

In 1971, ________ became head of the Communist Party in East Germany.

Boris Yeltsin

________ was committed to introducing a free market economy as quickly as possible, but the transition was not easy.

Nicolae Ceaus ̧escu

In 1965, the Communist leader ________ and his wife, Elena, set up a rigid and dictatorial regime in Romania.

Brezhnev

________ emerged as the dominant leader in the 1970s.

European Community

The EEC or ________ (EC) was chiefly an economic union.

John Paul II

________, who had been the archbishop of Cracow in Poland before he became pope in 1978, was the first non- Italian pope since the sixteenth century.

inexpensive form of entertainment

Televised sports were a(n) ________ from consumers point of view.

Reagan Revolution

The ________, as it has been called, sent U.S. policy in new directions.