Cold War
Who was the cold between?
USA AND USSR
What four countries make up the United Kingdom (UK)
England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland
Why was the European Union formed? (similar to NAFTA)
Promote free trade
What year did Yugoslavia break apart? (Same year as the USSR?
1991
What sector level is Microsoft, Apple, and Sony
Quartnary
What was the USA trying to stop the spread of?
Communism
What former Russian President served three terms and was a brutal soviet spy.
What is the common currency within countries in the EU
Euro
What does ethnic cleansing mean?
getting rid of an ethnic group by killing them or forcing them to leave an area.
What does NAFTA stand for?
North American Free Trade agreement
What was the USA result of the space race with USSR.
US landed a man on the moon
What USSR leader established communist rule in 1925.
Josef Stalin
What currency does the UK have
Pound
What does balkanization mean?
Chaos, conflict, the breakdown of a society along ethnic and/or religious lines
What canadian Province predominantly speaks french and has a strong french influence?
Quebec
Who were the two alliances during the cold war
NATO vs Warsaw Pact
What USSR leader wanted to change the soviet union to a democracy through Glasnost and Perestroika, but ended up getting blamed for the fall of the soviet union. (He also was kidnapped)
Mikhail Gorbachev
Countries in the EU must have
Democracy, Market economy, Human Rights
What three groups was fighting in the Bosnian/Serbian war?
Bosnian, Serbs, Croats
The warming of ocean waters and movement of wind onto to the western side of South America is called
El nino
What was the closest we ever came to war?
Cuban Missile Crisis
A historic agreement was reached that allows the people of Northern Ireland to run their own government and for Protestants and Catholics to share power.
Good Friday Treaty
What are the three missions of the UK?
Free trade, EU citizenship, parliament & court system
Representatives from Serbs, Croats, Bosnians and diplomats from the UN meet to create the
Dayton Agreement
The ______ _______ resulted in new ideas, goods, animals, and cultural diffusion all around the world
Columbian exchange