Unit 11 Contemporary History Test

By Amy Gilstrap

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Summerville High School Modern World History 

In 1994 South Africans elected Nelson Mandela president, after he and the previous president helped pass laws to end apartheid. This election was the first of its kind in South African history and resembled US elections which are guided by the Constitution and include which of the following?

Equal media coverage for all candidates

Term limits for all elected officials

Universal suffrage for men and women of all races

Mandatory registration for everyone over eighteen

MWH.5.CE

Which of the following was the purpose of the founding of the European Union (EU) in 1993?

Preventing the poor from causing a revolution

Becoming an economic power to compete with the United States

Fight the growing global network of terrorism

 Guaranteeing the freedom of movement of people, goods, services and capital

MWH.5.P

What was Ronald Regan’s economic plan in the 1980s with regards to taxes and military spending?

Ronald Reagan devoted his economic plan to balancing the budget by decreasing taxes and military spending

Ronald Reagan’s policy favored cutting military spending to provide tax breaks to the middle class

Ronald Reagan focused on increasing taxes in order to increase military spending during the Cold War

Ronald Reagan implemented supply side economics to decrease taxes while increasing military spending

MWH.5.P

Why did African states face so many problems following their successful independence movements?

The United Nations consistently waged war against rulers who they considered warlike

World War II prevented many countries from giving them aid

Many countries continued to ship slaves across the Atlantic Ocean

Political and ethnic rivalries within the countries emerged after independence

MWH.5.CC

The country of Ukraine has experienced a declining Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the previous two years. At the same time, inflation has caused prices to be 200 times what they were two years ago. Based on this information, what can you conclude about Ukraine’s economy?

The economy is flourishing

There is not enough information to make a determination

The economy is experiencing severe struggles

The economy is as good as it has ever been

MWH.5.CC

Using the prompt below, which statement is not true regarding the United States intervention in Kosovo in 1999? 

“My fellow Americans, today our Armed Forces joined our NATO allies in airstrikes against Serbian forces responsible for the brutality in Kosovo. We have acted with resolve for several reasons...
First, let me explain what it is we are responding to. Kosovo is a province of Serbia, in the middle of southeastern Europe, about 160 miles east of Italy. Its people are mostly ethnic Albanian and mostly Muslim. In 1989 Serbia’s leader, Slobodan Milosevic, the same leader who started the wars in Bosnia and Croatia and moved against Slovenia in the last decade, stripped Kosovo of the constitutional autonomy its people enjoyed, thus denying them their right to speak their language, run their schools, shape their daily lives. For years, Kosovars struggled peacefully to get their rights back. When President Milosevic sent his troops and police to crush them, the struggle grew violent.”
--excerpt from Statement on Kosovo (March 24, 1999), President Bill Clinton

The war was primarily fought because of ethnic genocide

The intervention was conducted by NATO and not the United States

This was not the first time the United States had intervened during Milosevic's regime

Muslims in Kosovo were persecuting Christians, which is why the United States intervened