Bank Exams Questions

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The Cold War started with building tensions between the US and the USSR during World War II. As Stalin began to annex more countries and spread communism throughout Eastern Europe, the US began to feel threatened and feared that they would start a war amongst the capitalist nations. The US started an attempt to limit the spread of communism and protect capitalism, which led to a series of passive aggressive and indirectly hostile exchanges between the two nations.

The beginning of the end of the cold war, the Berlin Wall came down. The USSR began to collapse the following year, in 1990.

The Progressive Movement:

Today, you hear the term ''progressive'' discussed a lot in politics, but progressivism is not a new concept. It was first used to describe policies and interventions of the late 19th to early 20th century, by reformers who felt the need for societal changes.

The first Progressives felt called to action in response to the conditions of poverty, inequality, and corruption that were pervasive during the 19th century.

Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk has won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime, and for laying the foundations for a new democratic South Africa.

The watt-hour (WH) is a unit of energy equivalent to one watt (1 W) of power expended for one hour (1 h) of time.

1 WH = 3600 joules.

The size of the pupil is controlled by the Iris when light enters the eye.

The world's largest weapons importer is Saudi Arabia.