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| 9469580624 | Which nation had the largest defense expenditure in 1987? | USA | 0 | |
| 9469580625 | Nikita Khruschev: | publicly denounced Stalin | 1 | |
| 9469580626 | Dwight Eisenhower felt that the military-industrial complex was America's best guarantee of freedom. | False | 2 | |
| 9469580627 | The Korean War provided an economic boost for Japan. | True | 3 | |
| 9469580628 | Between 1945 and 1948, the Soviet-controlled communist governments were established in all but which one of the following? | West Germany | 4 | |
| 9469580629 | Which country did China describe as a "paper tiger"? | the United States | 5 | |
| 9469580630 | The Korean War drove a wedge between the United States and many of its European allies because: | the American drive into North Korea was costly, belligerent, and provoked the Chinese | 6 | |
| 9469580631 | Which country witnessed the greatest decrease in their expenditures from 1987 to 1997? | USSR | 7 | |
| 9481528336 | Upon gaining independence, Congo/Zaire had a large and well-educated elite ready to guide the new nation. | False | 8 | |
| 9481528337 | Soon after the United States left Vietnam, the communists were defeated. | False | 9 | |
| 9481528338 | The Algerian Revolution: | nearly caused a civil war in France | 10 | |
| 9481528339 | Gamal Abdel Nasser: | nationalized the Suez Canal | 11 | |
| 9481528340 | This event brought the USSR and the United States the closest to nuclear war: | the placement of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba | 12 | |
| 9481528341 | The United States threatened to cut off Marshall Plan aid to which of the following to force them to withdraw from Indonesia? | The Dutch | 13 | |
| 9481528342 | Initially, the United States got involved in Vietnam to support: | the South Vietnamese | 14 | |
| 9481528343 | Decolonization was in part a consequence of the world wars and the global depression. | True | 15 | |
| 9481528344 | Which of the following actions was NOT taken by Fidel Castro after he took power? | redistributed land to individual peasant families | 16 | |
| 9481528345 | Colonel Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala: | wanted to force United Fruit Company to sell land to the government for the declared value on tax statements | 17 | |
| 9481528346 | Of the following, which was NOT one of the third-world leaders to organize the Bandung Conference? | Zhou Enlai | 18 | |
| 9481528347 | Rigoberta Menchu: | won the nobel peace prize | 19 | |
| 9481528348 | In Central America, the US and the USSR supported opposing parties in guerrilla wars in all of the following countries, except: | Colombia | 20 | |
| 9481528349 | Portugal's African colonies were given their independence primarily because: | The Portuguese dictator had been overthrownby democratic forces | 21 | |
| 9481528350 | Which of the following African countries had the highest per-capita gross national product in 1994? | South Africa | 22 | |
| 9481528351 | Nonaligned nations generally shared all of these goals EXCEPT: | Devaluation of traditonal civilizations | 23 | |
| 9481528352 | Chile's Salvador Allende: | Was killed in a coup | 24 | |
| 9481528353 | Of the following countries, which won independence first? | Togo | 25 | |
| 9493131645 | Human population: | Is currently over 6 billion | 26 | |
| 9493131646 | To the best of medical experts' knowledge, this disease has been totally eradicated: | Smallpox | 27 | |
| 9493131647 | DDT: | Is toxic to animals | 28 | |
| 9493131648 | Which of the following United Nations agencies oversees international trade? | WTO | 29 | |
| 9493131649 | Japan's postwar constitution: | outlawed nuclear weapons on Japanese soil | 30 | |
| 9493131650 | By 1980, Japan's per-capita income: | was approaching that of the US | 31 | |
| 9493131651 | In 1991, the USSR: | dissolved, and was replaced by the Commonwealth of Independent States | 32 | |
| 9493131652 | UN peacekeeping missions: | maintained peace between willing antagonists | 33 | |
| 9493131653 | Mikhail Gorbachev | was more successful at glasnost then at perestroika | 34 |
