The United States in the Post-Cold War World

Question 1

Demonstration in Beijing, China with tens of thousands of student demonstrators

Workers, teachers, officials joined and reached 1 million

Chinese troops crushed the protest in June 1989

Answer 1

Tiananmen Square

Question 2

Name of statue erected in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators

Answer 2

“The Goddess of Democracy and Freedom”

Question 3

Breached on November 9, 1989 as regional communist powers began to give up power

Reunified Germany

Answer 3

Berlin Wall

Question 4

Mobilized crowds in Russia to restore Gorbachev to power after Soviet military leaders attempted a coup to take over

Gorbachev then resigned from the Communist Party

Answer 4

Boris Yeltsin

Question 5

Head of African National Congress and an opponent of apartheid

Released from prison in 1989 and four years later became president of South Africa

Answer 5

Nelson Mandela

Question 6

Vision of world free of major conflict with the world powers working together

Answer 6

“New World Order”

Question 7

Former U.S. ally who became involved in international drug trade

Ousted by U.S. troops and extradited to Florida

Answer 7

General Noriega

Question 8

U.S. defense of Saudia Arabia and liberation of Kuwait in 1990-1991

Answer 8

Gulf War

or

Persian Gulf War

Question 9

Bush (41) rushed troops to Saudi Arabia to defend against an invasion by Iraq

Answer 9

Operation Desert Shield

Question 10

Bush (41) built forty nation coalition to restore Kuwait

Secured the support of the United Nations

Quickly drove Iraq from Kuwait – 10,000s of Iraqis died and 184 Americans died

Hussein remained in power

Answer 10

Operation Desert Storm

Question 11

Predicted a world of unexpected conflicts

U.S. should not commit troops without clear objectives

U.S. should have clear timetable for withdrawal

Answer 11

Powell Doctrine

from Secretary of State Powell

Question 12

Stated that the U.S. had the power to reshape the world

Demise of the Soviet Union gave U.S. opportunity

U.S. should prevent hostile states from becoming regional powers

U.S. should use force if needed to maintain strategic dominance

Answer 12

Secretary of Defense Cheney

Question 13

Ratified by the Senate in 1994

Created a free trade zone with U.S., Canada and Mexico

Critics claimed that many jobs have been lost because of it

Answer 13

North American Free Trade Agreement

NAFTA

Question 14

Agreement negotiated in 1993

Israel would recognize the Palestinian Liberation Organization

Palestine Authority was corrupt and unable to stop violence

Israel kep building Jewish settlements in the West Bank

Answer 14

Oslo Accords

Question 15

Result of Yugoslavia dissolving into six provinces and five new states

Serbs in Bosnia launched a war against Muslims and Croats and used “ethnic cleansing” to remove ethnic groups

Nato was indecisive and then launched air strikes against Serbs

Yugoslavian troops started ethnic cleansing against Albanians

Answer 15

Balkan Crisis