Social Studies Checkups 1,2, and 3

Biblical Prophecies for the last days include:

In the last days perilous times shall come" and "There shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes, in diverse places.

_____ America includes Central and South America and Mexico.

Latin.

In April 1992 _________ captured the Falkland Islands from the _______.

Argentina and British.

________ conditions and conflicts between various _________ ______ caused unrest in Latin America during the 1980s and 1990s.________ conditions and conflicts between various _________ ______ caused unrest in Latin America during the 1980s and 1990s.

Economic and Political Parties.

How many nations are there in Latin America?

33.

Drug _______ produce much of the world's supply of illegal _____.

Cartels ad Drugs.

______, the last British colony in _______ America, did not gain its independence until 1981.

Belize and Central.

Election of a civilian president in 1985 brought an end to military rule in _________.

Guatemala.

The ___________ opposed President Somoza in the nation of _________.

Sandinistas and Nicaragua.

After Sandinistas established a Communist government, Anti-Communist Sandinistas formed a group of freedom fighters called the ______ ___________.

Contra Revolutions.

U.S. President Carter signed two treaties that gave ______ control of the ______ Canal in 1999.

Panama and Panama.

The _____ ________ ____ _____, or NAFTA, removed all restrictions on trade among _____, ______ ______, and ______.

North American Free Trade, Mexico, United States, and Canada.

The short _______ ____ War followed Iraq's invasion of ______ in 1990.

Persian Gulf and Kuwait.

On _________ __, ____, the World Trade Center towers were destroyed by _______ terrorist.

September 11, 2001 and Islamic.

The Canadian province of ______ is the only one with a predominantly French culture.

Quebec.

The second Quebec referendum for __________ was defeated in October 1995.

Seperation.

In 2005 _________ _______ devastated much of New Orleans.

Hurricane Katrina

In addition to humanistic rationalization, why have the United States and Canada not experienced the same Christian church growth as other parts of the world?

Complacency and lost enthusiasm for God's word.

Cristina Fernandez

Argentina.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Brazil.

Stephen Harper

Canada.

Augusto Pinochet, Michelle Bachlet Jeria

Chile.

Alver Uribe

Columbia.

Mauricio Funes

El Salvador.

Alavaro Colom Caballeros, Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo, Ramiro de Leon Carpio.

Guatemala.

Rene Preval, Jean-Bertrand Artistide

Haiti.

Felipe Calderon

Mexico.

Daniel Ortega, Violeta Chamorro

Nicaragua.

Guillermo Endara, Ricardo Mertinelli Berrocal, Manuel Noriega

Panama.

George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan

United States.

____ ____, located on the coast of China, was turned over to China in 1997.

Hong Kong.

Although he had possibly been a ____ during World War 2, Kurt Waldheim was elected president of Austria in 1986.

Nazi.

The ______ ____ was erected because so many people were escaping from East Germany through West Berlin.

Berlin Wall.

After the destruction of the wall, ____ and ____ Germany was reunified under a non-communist government.

East and West.

Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the nations of the ______ Republic and _____.

Slovak and Czech.

Yugoslavia split into _____ nations, but its breakup was not peaceful.

Seven.

In the republic formed from Yugoslavia, only _________ experienced no violence, but fighting was most severe in ______.

Macedonia and Bosnia.

Persecution did not stop Believers in Communist nations from sharing their _____ in _______ with others.

Faith and Churches.

At its peak the Soviet Union consisted of 15 _________ and controlled 6 _________ nations.

Republics and Satellite.

_________ failed as both an economic and social system.

Communism.

_______ refers to policy of allowing free and open discussions within the Soviet Union.

Openess.

_____________ refers to reforms within the Soviet Union, especially in economic policies.

Restructuring.

The year ____ was known as the "The Year of Revolution" in the Communist satellite nations.

1989.

Today __ of the 15 independent nations of the former Soviet Union are now members of the CIS, or ____________ __ ___________ ______.

12 and CommonWealth of Independent States.

Those not member of the CIS are the three nations of _______, ______, and ________.

Estonia, Latvia, and Lituania.

Basic to Communism is the belief that ___ can rule himself without the help of ___.

Man ad God.

Communism failed because ______.

God is stronger than any governmental system.

After and accident at the ______ _____ _____ at Chernobyl, Ukraine, a radioactive cloud spread contamination into most of Europe.

Nuclear Power Plant.

Earthquakes caused extensive damage in _______ in 1988 and on ________ in 1995.

Armenia and Sakhalih.

______ is the largest and most powerful republic formed after the breakup of the Soviet Union.

Russia.

________ education is a practical method of reaching people in the CIS with the Good News of Jesus Christ.

Biblical.

______________ split after the fall of Communism.

Czechoslovakia.

__ an organization of free trade uniforms in Poland.

EU.

Nations working to unite resources into a single economy.

Germany.

Openess

Glasnost.

Never a Soviet satellite

Yugoslavia.

United after the fall of Communism

Germany.

Smoothest transition from Communism

Yougoslavia.

Split after the fall of Communism

Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.

Restructuring

Perestroika.

Heinz Fischer

Austria.

Boyko Borisov

Bulgaria.

Vaclav Klaus

Czech Republic.

Gordon Brown

Great Britain.

Konstantinos Karamanlis

Greece.

Lech Kaczynski

Poland.

Emil Boc

Romania.

Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Medvedev

Russia.