ch. 34-36

Question 1

This Afghanistan group imposed Islamic Law throughout its country.

Answer 1

Taliban

Question 2

This revolution during the 1960s was and continuing resulted in more food worldwide.

Answer 2

green

Question 3

First leader of modern India after 1947.

Answer 3

Nehru

Question 4

The sport of _____ was celebrated in Communist China and ultimately would spark an easing and normalizing of relations with the United States

Answer 4

pingpong

Question 5

This was the key factor in the Chechnyian War in 19999.

Answer 5

terrorism

Question 6

Soviet term meaning openness that led to democratic reforms during the 1990s in the Soviet Union

Answer 6

glasnost

Question 7

This was a biological agent used to attack the United States by terrorists in September 2001.

Answer 7

Anthrax

Question 8

South African system of racial discrimination and segregation was called this.

Answer 8

Aparthied

Question 9

This global linking of computers in the 1990s led to an economic, scientific, and cultural revolution.

Answer 9

internet

Question 10

The ______ Union became a giant economic superpower during the 1980s and continues to today.

Answer 10

European

Question 11

The West Bank and Gaza form the two parts of these people.

Answer 11

Palestinians

Question 12

In 1990, Germany achieved this.

Answer 12

reunification

Question 13

Free ______ is one goal of democracy

Answer 13

elections

Question 14

This trade agreement is vital to the Mexican government and economy.

Answer 14

NAFTA

Question 15

This region of India is disputed between India and Pakistan

Answer 15

Kashmir

Question 16

Term used to describe the separation of Hindu Indians and Muslim Indians by the summer of 1947.

Answer 16

partition

Question 17

This type of government was widespread in African and Latin America during the 1900s.

Answer 17

Dictatorship

Question 18

This south Asian island country has a decades long war between Buddhist Singhalese and Hindu Tamils.

Answer 18

Sir Lanka

Question 19

Last leader of the Soviet Union

Answer 19

Gorbechev

Question 20

He was the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for many years in the 1980s-1990s

Answer 20

Arafat

Question 21

This is an international terrorist group.

Answer 21

Al Qaeda

Question 22

Banking center in Southeast Asia

Answer 22

Singapore

Question 23

What is the white gold of the Central Asian Soviet Republics?

Answer 23

cotton

Question 24

Indian leader who attempted to unify the Hindus and Muslims.

Answer 24

Gandhi

Question 25

A war in _____ between Argentina and Great Britain brought economic and political chaos to South America

Answer 25

Falklands

Question 26

During the civil war in Yugoslavia, _____ was the term that resulted in geocide against many Muslim Slavs

Answer 26

Ethnic Cleansing

Question 27

Philippine corrupt dictator during the 1970s.

Answer 27

Marcos

Question 28

This was an African idea that connected culture, heritage, and values of black Africans.

Answer 28

Negritude

Question 29

This is the multinational group that controls much of the petroleum and oil supplies

Answer 29

OPEC

Question 30

This was the Soviet space ship in the 1970s

Answer 30

Soyuz