Leaders and Policies in North America and surprises
100
He became the Soviet Union’s first president in march 1990, and he was also its last.
Mikhail Gorbachev
100
Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia were examples of:
Soviet Union Satellite States.
100
En los años 60 y 70 del siglo XX en México actuaron grupos guerrilleros que surgieron en distintos puntos del país. El Estado mexicano decidió enfrentarlos con violencia, que rebasaba incluso los marcos legales instituidos en nuestro país. A esta manera terrorífica de enfrentar a los guerrilleros se le conoce como:
La Guerra Sucia
100
In 1994, the European Community became the European Union, which established the ______ as a common currency.
Euro
100
The growing unpopularity of the Bush-advocated war on Iraq, along with severe new economic problems, resulted in the election of the first U.S. African American president: ___________, in 2008.
Barack Obama
200
A radical reform, which meant "restructuring".
Perestroika
200
Nicolae Ceauşescu ruled ___________ with an iron grip. He used secret police to stop anyone who was against him.
Romania
200
En los años 60 y 70 del siglo XX en México actuaron grupos guerrilleros que surgieron en distintos puntos del país.
¿Cuál fue el nombre del atentado ocurrido en La Plaza de las 3 Culturas?
La Matanza de Tlatelolco o El Movimiento Estudiantil de 1968.
200
In Canada, the government's approval of the NAFTA led to Brian Mulroney's loss of the office of prime minister to Jean Chrétien. Canadians remained divided over the issue of independence for Quebec.
What does NAFTA stand for?
North American Free Trade Agreement
300
Both Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan wanted to slow down the arms race. They wanted to reduce their military budgets to solve domestic problems. This is what they did.
The Intermediate-Range INF treaty.
300
Countries of the Baltic States that got independence from the Soviet Union:
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia
300
Presidente en curso, quien inauguró días después de los atentados estudiantiles, los Juegos Olímpicos de México 1968.
Gustavo Díaz Ordaz
300
In ______ (year), the Berlin Wall was torn down, and __________ was reunited the following year.
1989, Germany
300
What is Maluma's real first name?
Juan Luis
400
What happened on December 25th 1991?
The Soviet Union ended.
400
__________ had a __________ government, but it
was never a Soviet satellite state.
Yugoslavia, Communist
400
¿En qué año y qué presidente estaba en curso cuando sucedió El Halconazo?
1971 y era Luis Echeverría
400
In 2010, in Great Britain after Margaret Thatcher. The ____________ returned to power. With _________ and Gordon Brown.
Conservatives, Tony Blair
400
Many French voters wanted to limit any new immigration. Problems grew especially between the _________ community and the rest of the French population. These tensions helped Nicolas Sarkozy become France’s new president in may 2007.
Muslim
500
What happened on October 3rd 1990?
Germany was reunified.
500
Six republics formed Yugoslavia in 1918. All were independent nations again, and ________ was a newly created nation.
Name all the independent nations and mention the newly created nation.
1. Bosnia and Herzegovina
2. Macedonia
3. Montenegro
4. Croatia
5. Slovenia
6. Serbia
7. Kosovo
500
Menciona cuando menos 2 partidos de izquierda en México.
PRD
PT
Partido Comunista de México
500
In Great Britain, the Labour Party won a huge victory in 1997, and tony Blair became prime minister. He lost popularity because of this reason:
He supported the U.S. war in Iraq when most Britons were against it.
500
__________ was Reagan’s vice president, he became the next president. He was unable to deal with the federal deficit and an economic downturn. This allowed Democrat ___________ to be elected president in 1992.