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Which of the following is a FALSE statement about the Soviet Union?

83. A. The unraveling of the Soviet Bloc began in Poland in June 1989.
B. By the fall of 1989, East and West Germans were tearing down the Berlin Wall.
C. Communist regimes were ousted in Hungary but not Czechoslovakia.
D. Yugoslavia threw off the yoke of communism only to dissolve quickly into a violent civil war.

84. Which of the following is a FALSE statement about the Soviet Union?
A. The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania declared independence.
B. Talks of similar sentiments were heard in Ukraine, the Caucasus, and the Central Asian states.
C. Here Gorbachev refused to maintain the territorial integrity of the Soviet Union, believing in the freedom of individual states.
D. In 1991, he proposed a Union Treaty, giving greater autonomy to the Soviet republics while keeping them under central control.

85. Which of the following is a FALSE statement about the Soviet Union?
A. That summer, a coup by conservative hardliners took place.
B. Gorbachev was placed under house arrest.
C. Boris Yeltsin, leader of the Soviet Republic, demanded the hardliners to be released.
D. In December 1991, Ukraine, Byelorussia, and Russia itself declared independence and the Soviet Union was dissolved; Gorbachev was a President without a country.

86. Which of the following is a FALSE statement about American reaction?
A. No serious discourse on any diplomatic levels in the USSR addressed the likelihood of a Soviet collapse.
B. No one really won the Cold War; the U.S. spent trillions of dollars arming themselves for a direct confrontation with the Soviet Union that fortunately never came.
C. Most Americans found it difficult to get used to the idea of no Cold War.
D. In many ways, facing one superpower was much more complicated than challenging the rogue states and renegade groups sponsoring global terrorism.

87. Which of the following is a FALSE statement about the last decade of the 20th century?
A. In the last decade of the 20th century, American diplomats spent the majority of their time battling the Soviet Union.
B. In the largest American military operation since the Vietnam War, the U.S. led a multinational force in the liberation of Kuwait.
C. The U.S. contributed blue-helmet peacekeeping troops to Bosnia to end ethnic cleansing and committed air support to Kosovar Albanians who faced the same fate.
D. American troops were used to provide food to starving civilians in war-torn Somalia, to restore a democratically elected President to Haiti, and bomb suspected terrorist bases in Sudan and Afghanistan.

88. Which of the following is a FALSE statement about the bitter partisanship?
A. Voters punished the Republicans by voting against George Bush in 1992.
B. After two years of Bill Clinton, voters punished him by turning the House and Senate over to the Republicans.
C. A bitter partisan struggle emerged over the personal sexual improprieties of Clinton in 1998, leading to an impeachment vote largely along party lines.
D. Disgusted with Clinton's behavior, voters rewarded Republicans by increasing their majority in Congress.

89. How did the 1990s mark a revolution in communications?
A. Individual use of the Internet mushroomed from a handful of scientists and professors at the beginning of the decade to becoming widespread by the year 2000.
B. Companies regeared their approaches for online commerce, and electronic mail was a common new form of communications.
C. Satellite dish networks challenged cable companies for business in telecommunications.
D. All of the above

90. Which of the following is a FALSE statement about events in Iraq?
A. Saddam Hussein, dictator of Iraq, ordered his army across the border into tiny Kuwait.
B. The Iraqi takeover posed an immediate threat to neighboring Saudi Arabia, another major exporter of oil.
C. In the last months of 1990, the U.S. participated in the defense of Saudi Arabia in a deployment known Operation Desert Shield.
D. Less than 200,000 troops were placed in Saudi Arabia in case of an Iraqi attack on the Saudis.

91. Which of the following is a FALSE statement about Desert Storm?
A. Looking westward for support for their dramatic internal changes, the USSR did not block the American plan.
B. A small minority of Americans and a minority of Congress supported the President's actions.
C. The U.S. issued an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein; leave Kuwait by January 15 or face a full attack.
D. January 15 came and went with no response from Iraq, so the next night bombing sorties pummeled Iraq's military targets.

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