During the late 1980s and early 1990s, many of the world’s nation-stat

QUESTION

During the late 1980s and early 1990s, many of the world’s nation-states moved away from:

A. democratically elected governments.

B. free market capitalism.

C. individualism.

D. political and civil freedoms.

E. totalitarian governments.

ANSWER

E
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, a wave of democratic revolutions swept the world. Totalitarian governments collapsed and were replaced by democratically elected governments that were typically more committed to free market capitalism than their predecessors had been.