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Intellectual Movements Population And Migration Culture and Religion Radical Islam Vocabulary And People The West in the 21 st Century

WORTH: What are Spain, Greece, and Italy? SUBJECT: Population And Migration MAIN These are the three Mediterranean countries that have birthrates below 1.4 children per family.

WORTH: What is Gdansk? This was the new Polish name for the once German city of Danzig MAIN SUBJECT: Population And Migration

WORTH: What was the French returning to France from Algeria in 1962 after the Algerian War? This was the most extreme example of Decolonization after World War II MAIN SUBJECT: Population And Migration

WORTH: What is Russia with million Muslims ? This is the European country with the largest Muslim population in Europe MAIN SUBJECT: Population And Migration

WORTH: What is the European Union and collapse of the Soviet Union and Communism? These are the two factors that sparked debate over abortion in Europe MAIN SUBJECT: Population And Migration

WORTH: Who was Simon de Beauvoir? She argued that European women experienced distinct social and economic disadvantages when compared to men SUBJECT: Intellectual Movements MAIN

WORTH: Who was Arthur Koestler? He wrote Darkness at Noon and Ghost in the Machine and took his own life when he was diagnosed with cancer MAIN SUBJECT: Intellectual Movements

WORTH: Who was Albert Camus? He was famous author born in Algeria, ( a French Colon) who wrote the book the Plague and most of his stories are set in Algeria MAIN SUBJECT: Intellectual Movements

WORTH: What was the Spanish Civil War, The Show trials of Stalin’s Great Purge, the invasion of Hungary in 1956, and Czechoslovakia in These were the four events that cooled the European intellectual leaders passion for Communism and the Soviet Union MAIN SUBJECT: Intellectual Movements

WORTH: What was existentialism? This was the philosophy of the modern western world which emphasized individualism and moral choices MAIN SUBJECT: Intellectual Movements

WORTH: What was Vatican II or the Twenty First Ecumenical Council? This was the meeting that took place in 1959 and finished its work in 1965, which changed the Catholic Mass to the vernacular language, encouraged a freer exchange with Judaism, and gave more power to local Bishops MAIN SUBJECT: Culture and Religion

WORTH: Who was Pope John Paul II? He was the Pope, who was the Archbishop of Krakow, Poland who helped cause the downfall of the Soviet Union and the end of Communism MAIN SUBJECT: Culture and Religion

WORTH: What was the National Front ? This was the The French extreme right-wing party (Fascist) MAIN SUBJECT: Culture and Religion

WORTH: Who was Karl Barth? He was the Danish theologian who wrote, “ A Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans”, a response to the horrors of World War I and a return to Reformation theology MAIN SUBJECT: Culture and Religion

WORTH: Who was C.S. Lewis ? He was the liberal Christian author, and medieval scholar, who wrote the Screwtape Letters and Chronicles of Narnia MAIN SUBJECT: Culture and Religion

WORTH: What are madrasas? These are the fundamentalist Islamic schools set up to spread extreme Islamism SUBJECT: Radical Islam MAIN

WORTH: What was Iran? This was the country that started the Shiite Revolution that changed the Middle East MAIN SUBJECT: Radical Islam

WORTH: What is the Wahhabist Movement? This was the radical Islamic movement in Saudi Arabia that has a direct connection with the Saudi royal family MAIN SUBJECT: Radical Islam

WORTH: What was the Arab Oil Embargo of ? This was the Arab response to western Pro-Israeli policies and drove home the reliance by the west on resources provided by foreign nations MAIN SUBJECT: Radical Islam

WORTH: What is Germany from Turkey and Great Britain from Pakistan? This is where many of the Muslims living in Germany emigrated from, and where many of the Muslims that live in Great Britain emigrated from? ( Both groups of radical Muslims played a part in the bombing of the Twin Towers in September of ) MAIN SUBJECT: Radical Islam

WORTH: Who was William B. Beveridge ? He proposed making health care and social insurance universal in Great Britain MAIN Vocabulary And People

WORTH: What is Americanization? This was term given to the economic and military influence on Europe by the United States MAIN Vocabulary And People

WORTH: What was the Green Party and the Green Movement? This was the Pro-Environmental political party of Germany and the movement that has caused pro environmental changes in Europe in recent years MAIN Vocabulary And People

WORTH: Who was the Shah of Iran, Rheza Pahlavi? He was the leader of Iran that was installed by a CIA led coup in 1953, and his conservative brutal tactics set the stage for the Iranian Islamic Revolution MAIN Vocabulary And People

WORTH: Who was Jean Marie Le Pen? He was the French Nationalist leader who won enough votes to become one of the two candidates for the Presidency of France MAIN SUBJECT: Vocabulary And People