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1.) WHAT WAS THE IRON CURTAIN?
a.) The separation of North Korea from South Korea.
b.) The difference between free market systems and planned economies.
c.) The splitting of Germany into East Germany and West Germany.
d.) The division between democratic and communist countries.
2.)Prague Spring, which took place in Czechoslovakia, refers to
a.) a time of political liberalization in 1968
b.) a rebirth of communism in 1966
c.) an economic boom in 1970
d.) a united workers’ movement in 1969
3.)In 1985, former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev instituted a glasnost policy. What was its objective?
a.) To reform the Soviet judicial, executive, and legislative branches of government.
b.) To bring transparency and openness to Soviet press, government, and business.
c.) To promote Soviet solidarity and strengthen Communism throughout Europe.
d.) To contain Soviet dissent through the use of censored press and secret government operations.
4.) In 1985, former Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev instituted a policy called perestroika. What was its aim?
a.)To liberate the Soviet press
b.)To centralize Soviet politics.
c.)To quell Soviet social unrest.
d.)To restructure the Soviet economy.
5.) Which organization connects European economies together?
a.) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization
b.) The United Nations
c.) The European Union
d.) The Warsaw Pact
6.) The term ethnic cleansing–the eradication of an ethnic group through forced relocation, concentration camps, and/or murder–has its origins with which conflict(s)?
a.) The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s
b.) The Salvadoran Civil War in the 1980s
c.) World War II in the 1940s
d.) The Berlin Wall Crisis in the 1960s
7.) Which event or situation directly led to the fall of Communist governments in Eastern Europe?
a.) The Cuban Missile Crisis
b.) The Polish Solidarity Movement
c.) The fall of the Berlin Wall
d.)The Balkan Wars
8.) The fall of the Berlin Wall, which reunited Communist East and capitalist West Germany, took place in November of _____.
a.) 1995
b.) 1989
c.) 1984
d.) 1998
9.) The major terrorist threat to North America and Europe which prompted the War on Terror comes from _____.
a.) Latin American guerrillas
b.) warring druglords
c.) militant Islamists
d.) fanatical Zionists
10. The currently independent states of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, and Serbia and Montenegro were once part of which country?
a.) Bulgaria
b.) Slovakia
c.) Romania
d.) Yugoslavia
11. Which of the following have the two biggest economies in the world?
a.) The European Union and the United States
b.) Japan and the European Union
c.) Germany and the United States
d.) The United Kingdom and Japan
12. Some people in Eastern Europe today long for the return of Communist governments because _____.
a.) of superior Communist technology
b.) of cutbacks in social programs
c.) they had a wealthier economy under Communism
d.) of their new aggressive foreign policies
13. The War on Terror was a response to what event?
a.) The Istanbul double bombing
b.) The NATO invasion of Afghanistan
c.) The Madrid train bombings
d.) The September 11th attacks

People think that Collective bargaining is just the right to put a group together & bargain as a group, not true. Collective Bargaining means workers have to join a Union if they want to work. In the Public sector it gives Unions a monopoly & control of all government paid jobs.
I don’t think forcing a company to hire through a Union, taking their right to choose who will work for them, taking the right to terminate unproductive employees, taking the right to pay more productive employees more is even anything that could possibly be legal using any intelligent thought process. It’s ownership rights of the company given to Unions who don’t have any investment in the company, no ownership at all. It’s insane.
But when it comes to public tax paid jobs it’s even more insane and wrought with inevitable corruption.
Unions have the power, the workers don’t and the elected officials don’t. Unions have completely denied votes by members on merit pay, wouldn’t even allow members they are SUPPOSED to represent to vote on a proposal! Tell me that’s WORKERS RIGHTS? That’s Union Control, PERIOD. That’s not even the worst of it. Unions force government workers to pay around $1000 a month each, which means for every 1000 workers they get a million dollars and there are hundreds of thousands of workers. They take this money and use it to help politicians, usually Democrats get elected. Those politicians then turn around and make deals giving much higher than market wages, and worse than that give up the ability to fire bad workers, especially ugly in teachers case this sticks kids with teachers without incentive to do a good job. They can’t get paid more for doing a good job and in 2 years they gain tenure & can’t be fired for cause at all. THAT is the BIG problem with our public school system. That is what Union control over government jobs creates. Generates huge amounts of money they bribe politicians with. The tax payers loose, the kids loose, the workers use their right to choose representation or not to be represented. Those Unions don’t even allow teachers secret ballots.
Result?
Government Corruption, officials bribed by Unions & their guys gain huge support from workers, most of whom don’t want their money spent that way.
Control of Government jobs by corrupt Unions, they bribe officials & get about what they want costing the tax payers and corrupting the system as well as taking representation away from voters
lower quality output; especially insidious in teachers who don’t do a good job teaching kids
higher costs; including over payment & extravagant benefits like Cadillac health plans & extravagant retirement benefits that go on until the worker dies costing millions.
These costs is exactly what is bankrupting many states. They shouldn’t have been allowed because it’s obvious they were not sustainable, but the bribery greased the wheels for these insane benefits that the economy simply can’t support even in the best of times.
It’s obvious to me and to anyone with a functioning brain I’d say, that giving Unions the government support to remove ownership rights of a company and give them to a Union with no ownership in the company at all, isn’t anything that should have ever been even considered. It’s a taking of ownership which is obviously not fair, no different than just stealing part of the land your home sits on without paying for it. BUT that pales in comparison to the wrong that’s created by legally binding governments to give their power over government jobs over to Unions. It’s just amazingly corrupt.
When people understand even part of this information the poling is for what governor Walker is doing by nearly 2 to 1. And it should be for his actions by a much wider margin.

Bob Channin, the NEA’s top lawyer said in his retirement speech:
“Despite what some among us would like to believe it is not because of our creative ideas. It is not because of the merit of our positions. It is not because we care about children and it is not because we have a vision of a great public school for every child. NEA and its affiliates are effective advocates because we have power.”
“And we have power because there are more than 3.2 million people who are willing to pay us hundreds of millions of dollars in dues each year, because they believe that we are the unions that can most effectively represent them, the unions that can protect their rights and advance their interests as education employees.”
“This is not to say that the concern of NEA and its affiliates with closing achievement gaps, reducing dropout rates, improving teacher quality and the like are unimportant or inappropriate. To the contrary. These are the goals that guide the work we do. But they need not and must not be achieved at the expense of due process, employee rights and collective bargaining. That simply is too high a price to pay.”

The NEP “plan” that Lenin adopted early on to allow some private enterprise and growth in the farming sector and other small buisnesses? Lenin did claim that this was a step backwards socioeconomically to adopt these somewhat capitalistic ideals but would eventually allow the Soviet Union to adopt socialism later and much smoother given the success the NEP plan was having in avoiding complete economic collapse and the success it had producing crops. Lenin was accused by the bolsheviks of betraying the Marxist ideals but if I recall Marx did expalin how it was neccessary to adopt capitalism after being under a Monarchy. If so why did Lenin rush to overthrow the provisional government that took power after the Tsar was stripped of power? This appeared to resemble (to me at least) the bourgeosie revolution. It all kind of fell in place it seems, but was Lenin just too impatient or too power hungry?
My final question revolves around this, more people within the party seemed accepting to Stalin taking power because of this NEP plan. Stalin really made no secret of his intentions of extreme centralization and 5 year plans that would all but destroy any form of free market that exsisted within the soviet union. My final questions are what if Stalin had kept the NEP plan intact? How much of an impact would this have had in the shaping of the soviet union? Would they have been able to adopt true socilaism within, oh, lets say 10-15 years?

Realists argue that sometimes the United States must use force simply to show that it is militarily strong.
True
False
One of the goals of U.S. foreign policy is to promote world peace.
True
False
The President must always get Congressional approval when taking military action.
True
False
The Central Intelligence Agency gathers information about other countries through secret operations and reading foreign newspapers.
True
False
Idealists are against any involvement in the affairs of other countries.
True
False
The U.S. got involved in which of the following conflicts in order to stop the spread of Communism?
Korean War
Cold War
Vietnam War
all of the above
The event that caused the United States to change its isolationist policy was
the Vietnam War.
the Cold War.
the Spanish-American War.
World War I.
What was the original focus of the NATO alliance?
protection of important seaports in Eastern European countries
defense against the Soviet Union
reduction of nuclear arms
all of the above
Which of the following is an argument made by supporters of U.S. foreign-aid programs?
The United States may one day need aid from these countries.
Foreign aid may help decrease trade deficits with other countries.
It will increase imports from other countries.
Countries receiving aid may provide good markets for U.S. exports.
An agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to limit the production of some nuclear weapons was called the
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement.
Nuclear Arms Proliferation Agreement.
Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
Nuclear Arms Reduction Treaty.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a gathering of young members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party this weekend that the “multikulti” concept – where people of different backgrounds would live together happily – does not work in Germany.
At “the beginning of the 1960s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country,” said Ms. Merkel at the event in Potsdam, near Berlin. “We kidded ourselves a while. We said: ‘They won’t stay, [after some time] they will be gone,’ but this isn’t reality. And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side by side and to enjoy each other … has failed, utterly failed.”
The crowd gathered in Potsdam greeted the above remark, delivered from the podium with fervor by Ms. Merkel, with a standing ovation. And her comments come just days after a study by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation think tank (which is affiliated with the center-left Social Democratic Party) found that more than 30 percent of people believed Germany was “overrun by foreigners” who had come to Germany chiefly for its social benefits.
The study also found that 13 percent of Germans would welcome a “Führer” – a German word for leader that is explicitly associated with Adolf Hitler – to run the country “with a firm hand.”
Source:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/1017/Germany-s-Angela-Merkel-Multiculturalism-has-utterly-failed
Thoughts???
And yes, this is a repost, but I believe we’re discussing a valid topic and would like to get as many responses as I can. That said, only reply if you feel comfortable doing so.