Conflicts and Transformations

quiz

The Institutional Revolutionary Party monopolized politics for more than 70 years in which Latin American country?

Mexico

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has accomplished all of the following except

ensured that people around the world gained access to health care

What has been an effect of neoliberalism?

Expansion of multinational corporations

Evading a congressional ban, US president Reagan sent aid to which Nicaraguan faction?

the contras

which two central American nation endured violent civil wars in the 1980s

El Salvador and Guatemala

which two countries have been struggling for control of Kashmir since 1947

India and Pakistan

How did Mikhail Gorbachev reform the economy of the Soviet Union

by allowing the economy to follow market signals

what was the goal of the Palestine Liberation Organization

to reclaim land in Palestine

who maintains political control of Cyprus

it id divided into Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities

Which of the following led to peace effort at the 1993 Oslo Accords

the first Intifada

what made Boris Yeltsin’s economic reforms difficult for the Russian people?

the new market economy did not guarantee jobs, pensions, or health care

which eastern European nation achieved economic stability after wwii under Josip Broz before breaking into six republics amid ethnic conflict

yugoslovakia

this Iraq leader fought a war with Iran in the 1980s and then invaded Kuwait in 1990

Saddam Hussein

what did Deng Xiaoping do most successfully as China’s leader

stimulate economic growth

how did the Chinese government respond to the Tiananmen Square democracy protests

they opened fire on the demonstrators

what did Desmond tutu and Nelson Mandela achieve in their efforts to end South African apartheid

both won the nobel peace prize

which group enforced Sunni Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan, eliminating education for girls

the taliban

what was Israels motivation for the six day war

to prevent an Egyptian attack

what resulted from the Iranian Revolution of 1979

Iran adopted sharia law

what was the effect of the Good Friday Agreement

Northern Ireland remained part of the United Kingdom