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The Soviet Union's centrally planned economy lacked flexibility and could not meet consumer demands. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The Soviet elections held in spring 1989 were the first open ones in the country since 1917. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Many of the non-Russian nationalities in the Soviet Union were forced to join during the civil war between 1918 and 1921. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Gorbachev continued to enforce the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine which stated that the Soviet Union had the right to put down threats to socialism in other countries. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Although it was noncommunist, Solidarity was never outlawed in Poland. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Before the Soviet Union collapsed, Boris Yeltsin was elected president of the Russian Republic. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In many parts of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the pain and difficulty of the economic transition exceeded expectations. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In 1993, Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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During the civil war in Yugoslavia, the country continued to be led by Tito. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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NATO's bombing campaign of Serbia in 1999 was one of several military actions conducted by the alliance in the course of the past fifty years. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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The reunified German state became one of the leading economic powers in the world. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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No former eastern bloc countries were interested in joining their old Cold War "enemy," NATO. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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European unification has virtually unanimous support among Europeans. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Since the 1970s, China has not adopted any capitalistic economic reforms. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Illegal immigration to the West skyrocketed during the 1990s. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Access to computers and, thus, to the "information highway" is limited to those in the West. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Unemployment remained a problem in Europe in the 1990s. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Financial crises in one part of the world no longer had an effect in other regions. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In the future, Europe's population is expected to explode, while that of Asia and Africa should decline. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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Environmental pollution is only a problem in the West, since it is more industrialized. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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By the end of the 1990's, several factors, including an increase in immigration and the rise of global media, served to standardize world culture and world consumer tastes. This transformation has led some economists to speak of the world as a single "global village." _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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In eastern Europe, because of much stricter controls on the Communist-controlled economy, the expansion of industry has had a less detrimental impact than it had in Western Europe and North America. _____ |
| | A) | True |
| | B) | False |
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