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