<p>STUDY GUIDE: UNIT 10—CONTEMPORARY WORLD HISTORY AFTER THE FALL: THE WESTERN WORLD IN A GLOBAL AGE (SINCE 1985)</p><p>1. Who follows Gorbachev? 1. ______</p><p>2. ______</p><p>3. ______</p><p>4. ______(same as #2)</p><p>2. Define perestroika ______</p><p>3. After the fall of the Soviet Union, what nation struggled with all of the following:  organized crime.  an uprising in largely Muslim Chechnya.  economic hardships.  a president who was often ill. 4. The first independence movements among the Soviet republics during ______’s rule occurred in the Baltic area of Lithuania.</p><p>5. The brutal dictatorial Communist government of Nicolae Ceausecu came to an end 1989. Where did Ceausecu rule? ______</p><p>6. The politician who kept the fractious state of Yugoslavia together for decades after World War II was______. He died in 1980.</p><p>7. Following the fall of the USSR, demands for ethnic separatism in what region______was divided into warring factions. (region outlined in green on the white board!)</p><p>8. The tactic of "______-______," murdering or forcibly removing ethnic minorities from their lands in the former Yugoslavia, is a savage strategy of modern political terror prac- ticed most brutally by Serbia.</p><p>9. You should also know the The Yugoslavian president ousted from power in 2000 and who was subsequently put on trial for war crimes against humanity ______</p><p>10. The major issue that troubled Italian society in recent decades has been widespread govern- ment ______</p><p>11. The common currency that was initially adopted by eleven member states of the European Union is ______12. Because many Europeans remain committed to a national identify and do not see themselves as "Europeans" many Challenges faced which international organization? ______</p><p>13. The first opportunity for testing the new relationship between the United States and the So- viet Union in the post-Cold War era was which middle eastern conflict? ______</p><p>14. "al-Qaeda" means ______</p><p>15. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the United States initially waged war in which nation? ______</p><p>16. Christian fundamentalism generally opposes what issues? 1. ______</p><p>2. ______</p><p>3. ______</p><p>17. Name a Neo-Expressionist artist: ______</p><p>18. Apple's iPod was introduced in what year: </p><p>19. An example of multiculturalism in literature would be “Interpreter of Maladies” by which au- thor? ______</p><p>20. French President Sarkozy said “We cannot accept to have in our country women…who are prisoners” and used this thinking to create laws against what type of workers from the Mid- dle East? (they are temporary residents that work and return home) ______</p><p>21. What led NATO to attack Sarajevo? ______</p><p>22. What religion were most Bosnians? (this was on the white board!) ______</p><p>23. What religion were most Serbians? (this was also on the white board!) ______</p><p>24. Aside from brokering peace afterwards, how did the United States get involved in the Bosni- an War? ______</p>