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IBella Pacheco

Jul 31, 2024

Which West German chancellor thawed relations with the Soviet Union and East Germany in the 1970s?

A) Helmut Kohl
B) Ludwig Erhard
C) Erich Honecker
D) Willy Brandt
E) Gerhard Schröder

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Rhonda Walker

Jul 31, 2024

What was the name of the common currency introduced by the European Union in 2002?

A) euro
B) franc
C) mark
D) peseta
E) ruble

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Spencer Smith

Jul 31, 2024

What best describes pieds noirs?

A) counterculture writers and artists
B) French soldiers in South Africa
C) guerrilla warriors in Vietnam
D) militant Algerians who demanded the immediate deportation of French settlers
E) French citizens living in Algeria,Morocco,and Tunisia

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sophia lahham

Jul 31, 2024

Under Nikita Khrushchev,Soviet foreign policy in the Third World followed what aim?

A) acquiring raw materials to rebuild Soviet industry
B) finding markets in which to sell goods produced in the Soviet Union
C) finding military bases to deter the United States
D) acquiring immigrant labor to work in Soviet industry
E) detaching countries from the direct influence of the United States

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Kirsten Sibley

Jul 31, 2024

Which nation created the first non-communist government in Eastern Europe since 1948 with the election of Tadeusz Mazowiecki in 1989?

A) Poland
B) Hungary
C) East Germany
D) Romania
E) Czechoslovakia

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Lite Ace Patiluna

Jul 31, 2024

What major event happened at Chernobyl,Ukraine,in 1986?

A) the explosion of a nuclear reactor
B) arms-reduction talks between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan
C) the declaration of an independent Ukraine
D) the first public broadcast of American television in the Soviet Union
E) the signing of a treaty officially ending the Second World War

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Elvy A. Zingg

Jul 31, 2024

In 2014,Russia invaded and annexed the province of Crimea,which was part of which former Soviet state?

A) Belarus
B) Ukraine
C) Lithuania
D) Georgia
E) Kazakhstan

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Ashley Carrasquillo

Jul 31, 2024

The success of the Brexit campaign has increased worries that which part of Great Britain would vote to leave it?

A) Scotland
B) Wales
C) England
D) Northern Ireland
E) Gibraltar

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Jessie Charles

Jul 31, 2024

Which Algerian War veteran,accused of using torture in that conflict,became the leader of the far-right National Front in France?

A) Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
B) François Mitterand
C) Raymond Barre
D) Jean-Marie Le Pen
E) Lionel Jospin

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Cristian Trevizo

Jul 31, 2024

Opposition from which nation forced Britain to back down in the Suez Canal crisis in 1956,bringing an end to European domination of the Middle East?

A) Israel
B) China
C) France
D) the United States
E) West Germany

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Jacob Burch

Jul 31, 2024

On what issue did the heads of state in both the United States and the Soviet Union agree during the period of détente,1969-1979?

A) withdrawal from conflicts in the southern hemisphere
B) nuclear arms reduction
C) environmental regulation
D) famine relief in Third World nations
E) sharing medical research

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Jordyn Messling

Jul 31, 2024

What was an important reform made by Wladyslaw Gomulka in Poland,in contravention of Soviet policy?

A) a reduction in military spending to devote more resources to consumer goods
B) a denunciation of Joseph Stalin and his political philosophy
C) an end to the collectivization of agriculture,with land distributed to peasants
D) the introduction of markets in consumer goods to increase production
E) direct engagement with the United States instead of acting through the Warsaw Pact

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Aubrey Brinkley

Jul 31, 2024

Bosnian Serbs massacred 8,000 men and boys in the fields outside of which town?

A) Sarajevo
B) Bijeljina
C) Prijedor
D) Tuzla
E) Srebrenica

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Charlice Richard

Jul 31, 2024

What issue was central to the Helsinki Accords,signed in 1975?

A) nuclear weapons
B) German reunification
C) human rights
D) the Vietnam War
E) Finnish independence

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Daunette Bodie

Jul 31, 2024

In which nation did ETA,a violent separatist campaign,operate in the 1970s and 1980s?

A) Spain
B) Italy
C) West Germany
D) Ireland
E) Portugal

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Jaela Evans

Jul 31, 2024

What was the goal of the founders of the European Community in 1967?

A) to create a stronger military alliance against the Soviet Union
B) to create a common currency for all of Western Europe
C) to bring about European economic integration
D) to remove border controls on the European continent
E) to create closer ties with the United States

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quinton handy

Jul 29, 2024

The Mayflower Compact grew out of

A) a promise among the Pilgrims to support religious tolerance of anyone who settled in the area.
B) a comprehensive list of the rules of behavior the colonists should use when dealing with the Indian.s
C) a promise made by every adult on board the Mayflower to obey all the laws of the English government.
D) an agreement between free adult males to obey the laws of chosen officials.

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MelQuan Green

Jul 28, 2024

Compared to the Chesapeake colonies, New England had more economic equality because it had more

A) cash crops.
B) timber.
C) landowners.
D) slaves.
E) religious toleration.

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Mandeep Singh

Jul 28, 2024

President Roosevelt refused to negotiate with undemocratic Latin American leaders.

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Douglas Morum

Jul 28, 2024

In early seventeenth-century Massachusetts, freeman status was granted to adult males who

A) owned land, regardless of their church membership.
B) had served their term as indentured servants.
C) were freed slaves.
D) were landowning church members.
E) raised cash crops for the colony.

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