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Return to World in the Making Volume 2 Student Resources
Chapter 28 Student Quiz
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The struggles faced by major world powers in the 1970s included _____.
Competition from oil-producing states.
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Increasing costs of military interventions.
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Competition from growing economies in Asia.
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All of the above.
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Gorbachev's economic reform package was called _____.
Glasnost.
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Perestroika.
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Neoliberalism.
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Communism.
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The end of the Cold War brought both advantages and disadvantages.
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Nations like Brazil, India, and South Africa rebuilt prosperity in the post-Cold War world by ____.
Focusing on commodity production for export.
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Building their base of heavy industry.
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Encouraging small farms and craft production.
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Taking advantage of global technology and markets.
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Globalization created a global market for products and services, but labor remained regionalized or localized.
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Globalization created global activism, which sometimes protested globalization itself.
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The environmental effects of global warming include ____.
An ozone hole over the Antarctic.
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More frequent and stronger hurricanes.
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Deforestation of the Amazon rain forest.
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All of the above.
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One of the results of increased migration was an increasing tendency of politicians to blame migrants for economic and social problems.
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The worldwide financial crisis which followed the 2008 bursting of a real estate bubble in the US encouraged _____.
Increased globalization and cooperation.
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Increased regulation of the global marketplace to bring benefits to all.
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The rise of authoritarian figures promising easy solutions.
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The overthrow of dictators around the world.
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Separatist movements emerged in _____.
Sri Lanka.
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Catalonia.
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Scotland.
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All of the above.
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