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Post War Europe
Post War Europe and the Present III
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The first popularly-elected president of the Russian Federation | Boris Yeltsin |
| The first chancellor of a united Germany following the end of the Cold War. | Helmut Kohl |
| A 1990 event that saw the dissolution of the Communist government of East Germany and the joining of the former Communist state with the West. | German Reunification |
| President of Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War. Desposed followwing a US invasion of Iraq and executed in 2006. | Saddam Hussein |
| A war waged by a UN coalition against Iraq resulting from the latter's invasion of Kuwait. | First Gulf War |
| A widespread reform program in the Catholic Church that resulted in, among other things, masses in the vulgate | Vatican II |
| A branch of philosophy that argues that humanity cannot be fully explained by either moral or scientific thinking | Existentialism |
| French existentialist, author of "No Exit," and "Nausea" | Jean Paul Sartre |
| Another French existentialist, author of "The Stranger" and "The Myth of Sissyphus" | Albert Camus |
| Sartre's long-time partner and author of the influential feminist text, "The Second Sex" | Simone de Beauvoir |
| Author of "The Wasteland" and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" | T.S Eliot |
| British author of the allegorical "Animal Farm" and the terrible downer "1984" | George Orwell |
| British author of the dystopian "Brave New World" | Aldous Huxley |
| French author of "Remembrance of Things Past." Everyone claims they want to read it. No one gets past the first book. | Marcel Proust |
| Late 19th-century author considered a father of existentialism. Published such works as "The Trial" and "The Metamorphosis" | Franz Kafka |
| Irish author of "Ulysses" and "Finnegan's Wake." Everyone claims they want to read them. But they don't even try. | James Joyce |
| Artistic movement that sought to portrary the world from a subjective viewpoint and illustrate emotion rather than experience | Expressionism |
| Art movement beginning in the 20s. Influenced by Dada it painted a warped, twisted vision of reality | Surrealism |
| Protests in Paris in this year almost unseated De Gaulle's government and introduced new, radical ideas that overturned everything from religious mores to Western capitalism in French society. | 1968 |
| British Conservative prime minister during the 1980s, nicknamed "The Iron Lady" | Margaret Thatcher |
| A brief conflict beginning in 1982 between Britain and Argentina, prompted by Argentina's invasion of the titular islands | Falklands War |
| Irish revolutionary organization that sought to drive Britain from Northern Ireland and established a unified Ireland | IRA (Irish Republican Army) |
| The major province of Northern Ireland | Ulster |
| The nation bordering Northern Ireland to the South. | Republic of Ireland |
| French diplomat who helped convince the US to become involved in World War II and would lay the foundations for the European Union | Jean Monnet |
| Proposal leading to the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community and eventually the European Union | Schuman Plan |
| International organization that seeks to unify European nations and allows any European nation to join if they meet certain standards of democracy and human rights. | Council of Europe |
| Organization proposed by the Schuman Plan that pooled the titular two resources between France and Germany in an effort to avoid future wars. | European Coal and Steel Community |
| A 1957 treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community and the European Economic Community. | Treaty of Rome |
| Treaty that formally created the European Union and established the euro as currency | Maastricht Treaty |
| A 2009 treaty that made ammendments to the Treaty of Rome and the Maastricht Treaty, giving more power to the European Union | Treaty of Lisbon |
| An unified organization of 27 European states | European Union |
| Yeltsin's successor as President of Russia | Vladimir Putin |
| A region in the Caucasus Mountains that seeks independence from Russia | Chechnya |
| President of Serbia and Yugoslavia, charged with war crimes against Albanians | Slobodan Milosevic |
| The practice of driving an ethnic group from an area by violence or other means | Ethnic Cleansing |
| Agreement ending the war in Bosnia | Dayton Agreement |
| A conflict that occurred from 1998 and 1999 between Yugoslavia and rebels of this disputed territory | Kosovo Crisis |
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