_____ are treaties aimed at limiting the spread of nuclear weapons. 

The late 1960s and early 1970s witnessed the era of détente between the Soviet Union and the United States during which overt aggression _____. 

The _____in the fall of 1973 abruptly ended the era of détente. 

The sweeping set of reforms introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1968, aimed at decentralization and a loosening of censorship restrictions, came to be known as the_

The fall of the infamous _____took place on the night of November 9, 1989, and marked the symbolic end of East Germany's Communist regime. 

The Soviet Union ended officially on Christmas Day 1991 and was replaced by the_____, with a now democratic Russia under Boris Yeltsin at its center. 

The massive mobilization of Americans during ________ accelerated civil rights efforts to combat segregation in the United States. 

President _____secured the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. 

President Johnson's comprehensive program aimed at eradicating poverty in America was referred to as_____. 

The sharp rise in oil prices and the economic downturn it brought about would ultimately lead in the late 1970s to a phenomenon referred to as_____

In 1966, Chairman Mao launched a violent critique of the direction of China's Communist Party, a phenomenon which became known as_____. 

The ascendancy of the pragmatic Deng Xiaoping to China's leadership brought about the 1978 announcement of_____

CPC's new "open door" policies would allow the market forces of capitalism to create incentives for economic growth, and the nation's motto became _____. 

Among China's modernization policies in the late 1970s was the mandatory_____, which was aimed at alleviating the nation's huge social and economic problems. 

In 2010, China surpassed _____as the second largest economy in the world, after the United States. 

The Khmer Rouge was a _____which launched a national campaign of genocide against religious and political opponents in the 1970s. 

In 1964, Yasir Arafat and other Palestinian nationalists founded_____, whose militant wing, Fatah, began a guerilla war against Israel and its backers. 

In 2000, about one-fifth of the world's population of _ lived in fully industrialized countries, two-thirds in middle-income countries. 

In March 2003, President George W. Bush espoused the unilateralist cause and ordered a preemptive invasion without UN Security Council backing against _________

Former KGB officer_____________________ was president of Russia 2000-2008 and became president again after 2012. 

In 1990s, the price depression imposed severe budget cutbacks on many poor countries, with consequent unemployment, reduction in education, and a rise in _. 

The 2008 presidential campaign led to the election of _____________________, a law professor and the first African American president of the United States. 

In the 1990s, _________________ became an entirely new branch of industry. 

Which of the following was NOT a component of the criticism related to globalization? 

The first set of regional crises related to globalism in 1997-1998 affected which countries? 

In 2010, India's middle class included anyone with: 

A series of agreements made in Kyoto, Warsaw, and Paris between 1997 and 2015 formulated targets for governments to begin reducing _______ by 2020.