Social Studies Test

In the 1950s and 1960s, citizens of the Soviet Union did not have

Songs, films, and posters praising the Soviet Union are examples o

In the 1970s, the United States and the Soviet Union enjoyed a period of improved relations called

From 1988 to 1991, ____________________________________ allowed the countries of Eastern Europe to break away from the Soviet Union.

When small political parties in a democratic country join forces, they form a(n) _____________________________________________________________________.

In the former Yugoslavia, Bosnian Serbs used _________________________________ to reduce the populations of minority ethnic groups.

Today, most of the countries in Western Europe are members of the ______________________________________________________________________.

The most widely used currency in Western Europe today is the ___________________.

__________________ is the capital of the United Kingdom.

In 1998, Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland signed the _____________________________________________________________________.

Under a system of ____________________________, the government of France took control of many of its industries after World War II.

______________________________ was a union leader in Gdansk who later became president of Poland.

The Swedish parliament is called the ________________________________________.

During World War II in France, members of the _____________________________ spied on German communications and assassinated military leaders.

For many years after World War II, the _____________________ prevented East Germans from moving to West Germany.