Which of these are considered the high point of détente?
A) the Helsinki Accords
B) the Bretton Woods Agreement
C) the creation of the Warsaw Pact
D) the building of the Berlin Wall
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Nikolae Ceausescu was the ruler of what country?
A) Romania
B) Czechoslovakia
C) Poland
D) Yugoslavia
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American and Soviet relations deteriorated during the presidency of Jimmy Carter because________.
A) Carter stressed the importance of human rights in shaping foreign policy
B) the United States continued to support Israel
C) the Soviet Union invaded Iraq
D) the Soviet Union refused to attend the 1980 Olympic games
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The New Conservatism British Prime Minister during the 1980s was ________.
A) Tony Blair
B) John Major
C) Margaret Thatcher
D) Harold Wilson
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The most recent indicators show that Europeans are _________ the European Union.
A) in favor of
B) unanimously in favor of
C) overwhelmingly opposed to
D) unsure about remaining in
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Basque separatists and the Irish Republican Army were alike in their ________.
A) methods
B) nationalist goals
C) political ideology
D) common enemy
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Bombings in Europe in Spain and London in 2004 and 2005 were linked to
A) Al Qaeda
B) Irish terrorists
C) Iraq
D) Palestine
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Which of these was the fastest growing religion in western Europe in the late 1900s?
A) Islam
B) Methodism
C) Mormonism
D) Buddhism
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What is the dominant pattern of postmodern religious life?
A) an increasing turn to Christianity as a unifying cultural bond
B) the replacement of Christianity with Islam across Europe
C) the weakening but persistence of Christian churches
D) the disappearance of many mainline Protestant faiths in Western Europe
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Adopting the euro met with _______ than the creation of the Common Market.
A) more opposition
B) less opposition
C) much greater enthusiasm
D) more indifference
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