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Which country in the 80’s &
90’s faced an economic failure
due to its over reliance on oil
and gas exports?
What is
Mexico?
What type of dictatorship did
the wealthy Brazilians support
in order to protect their property
from land reform in 1964?
What is a military dictatorship?
What are the 4 common
practices necessary for a
successful democratic
government?
What is free elections, citizen
participation, majority
rule/minority rights,
constitutional government
In 2000, What newly elected
President of Mexico ended the
run of PRI presidents?
Who is Vicente Fox?
What Mexican political party
dominated Mexican
government throughout the
20th century?
What is the Institutional
Revolutionary Party/PRI
What continent saw its newly
independent countries struggle
as a result of a lack of factories,
a few cash crops, and little
education?
What is Africa?
Which Nobel Peace Prize
winning black South African
Bishop led a nonviolent
campaign against apartheid?
Who is Desmond Tutu?
Which African nation gained
its independence from Great
Britain in 1960 and then had to
deal with civil war in the years
to come?
What is Nigeria?
What type of conflict developed
as result of Dutch colonial rule
in South Africa?
What is racial?
Newly independent Nigeria set
up what type of government
system that shares power
between states and a central
authority?
What is a federal system?
What was the name of the
Soviet ruling committee within
the Communist Party?
What is the Politburo?
Who was the young 54 year old
successor the Politburo chose to
bring mild reforms as the
General Secretary of the Soviet
Union?
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
In 1980 which Eastern
European country led by the
Solidarity Union challenged
communist rule and would
eventually join NATO in the
1990’s?
What is Poland?
What term describes an
economic restructuring of the
Soviet economy to permit more
local decision-making and
private ownership?
What is Perestroika?
What country’s Communist
government used violence to
suppress change but protestors
gained the support of the
military and would eventually
execute their ruthless leader
Nicolae Ceausecu?
What is Romania?
In a country with over 100
ethnic groups which was the
most powerful ethnic group in
the Soviet Union?
What is Russian?
Who became the first member
of Parliament to be the first
elected Russian President?
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
Boris Yeltsin met with the
leaders of the other former
Soviet republics to form what
loose federation?
Whatisisthe
theCommonwealth
Embargo Act? of
What
Independent States or CIS?
After the death of Josip Tito,
this country’s breakup turned
into a violent and prolonged
civil war?
What is Yugoslavia?
In 1994, What republic
declared its independence from
Russia and Yeltsin responded
by sending in 40,000 troops to
regain control of this rebellion?
What is Chechnya?
In 1949, what Chinese
Communist revolutionary
leader believed that peasant
equality, revolutionary spirit
and hard work were all that
was needed to improve the
economy?
Who is Mao Zedong?
In 1972, which U.S. President
made a state visit to China and
agreed to begin cultural
exchanges with a limited
amount of trade between the
two countries?
Who is Richard Nixon?
What thriving business center
ended 155 years of British
colonial rule when it was
handed over to China in 1997?
What is Hong Kong?
In 1989, more than 100,000
students occupied what large
public space in Beijing to
protest for more democratic
freedoms?
What is Tiananmen Square?
Deng Xiaoping embraced what
set of capitalist goals that
included making progress in
agriculture, industry, defense,
science, and technology?
What are the Four
Modernizations?
In 1987, What Soviet leader
signed the Intermediate-Range
Nuclear Forces Treaty with the
U.S.?
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
On November 9th, 1989, Egon
Krenz opened up what passage
way in hopes to maintain and
independent East Germany but
his calculation failed and
finally Germany would be
reunited with itself?
What is the Berlin Wall?
How many Soviet republics
(including the Soviet Union)
existed before the collapse of
the Soviet Union?
What is 15?
In the late 1980’s, which large
nation faced a political reform
movement, but its Communist
govt. clamped down on the
reformers and still maintains a
firm grip on power to this day?
What is China?
What open policy encouraged
Soviet citizens to improve their
society, opened churches, and
allowed for the reading of
previously banned books?
What is Glasnost?
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What is the name of San Diego’s
airport?
Final Question
What is lindbergh?