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Chapter 31 Self-Assessment
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During the 1990s, there were some 190 sovereign countries in the world, forming a(n) _________________.
Four-tier hierarchy
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Three-tier hierarchy
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Organized trade union
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Coalition of democratic nations
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In 2000, about one-fifth of the world's population of _____________lived in fully industrialized countries, two-thirds in middle-income countries, and 15 percent in poor countries.
10 billion
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7 billion
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6 billion
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1 billion
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The most important physical ability in the transition from hominin to human was:
Lebanon
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Afghanistan
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Turkey
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Kuwait
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In March 2003, President George W. Bush espoused the unilateralist cause and ordered a preemptive invasion without UN Security Council backing against ______________, declaring that it had become a regional threat.
Iraq
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Afghanistan
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Iran
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Somalia
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Former KGB officer_____________________ was president of Russia 2000-2008 and became president again after 2012.
Vladimir Putin
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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Dmitry Medvedev
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Boris Yeltsin
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As a result of overproduction on the world market, commodity prices were depressed through most of the 1990s. The price depression imposed severe budget cutbacks on many poor countries, with consequent unemployment, middle-class shrinkage, reduction in education, and a rise in __________.
Suicide statistics
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Murder statistics
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HIV infections
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Women's liberation movements
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In the United States anger grew out of financial panic in the economic crisis of 2008. Resentment of corporate greed and federal economic stimulus packages created the new political party, ___________ made up mostly of white, middle-class, older, and evangelical Christian voters.
Green Party
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Socialist Party
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Federalist Party
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Tea Party
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The 2008 presidential campaign led to the election of _____________________, a law professor and the first African American president of the United States.
Colin Powell
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Barack Obama
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William Jefferson Clinton
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John McCain
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Slobodan Milosevic was an ethnic______.
Croat.
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Albanian.
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Bosnian.
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Serb.
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In the attempt to boost East Asian economies and thwart the advance of communism, the United States became an import _______________.
sinkhole
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opponent
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antagonist
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rival
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In the 1990s, _________________ became an entirely new branch of industry.
commercial airline travel
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locally produced commodities
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information technology
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computers
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Which of the following was NOT a component of the criticism related to globalization?
The loss of the traditional nuts and bolts manufacturing.
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Sacrificing American sovereignty to foreign investors and markets.
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Exclusion of poorer countries in the global capitalist system.
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The opening of foreign markets to U.S. investors.
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13.The first set of regional crises related to globalism in 1997-1998 affected which countries?
Mexico, China, and Russia
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Mexico, Thailand, and Russia.
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Mexico, Greece, and Iceland
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Russian, China, and the U.S.
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Two recessions in the first decade of the 2000s in the U.S. were centered upon what industries?
Farming and automobile production
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Currency speculation and imports
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Dot.com industry and housing
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Housing and imports
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Islamists achieved breakthroughs in which two Middle Eastern countries/territories in the first decade of the 21st century?
An enhanced ability to migrate because areas formerly separated by seas became accessible over ice.
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A great increase in the number of large animals because they could take refuge in areas too cold for humans.
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A reduction in the genetic variations between various human societies because they were no longer isolated.
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A dramatic increase in the total population of humans over the globe, due to improved techniques for hunting large animals.
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Which Middle Eastern country has largely escaped Islamist militancy?
Lebanon
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Turkey
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India
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Iran
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In 2010, India's middle class included anyone with:
a cell phone, motorized transportation, and a color TV.
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a salary of between $30,000 and $50,000 per year.
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IT experience.
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none of these.
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Until his death in 2013, _______'s President Hugo Chávez was alone in mainland Latin America in his adherence to state socialism, encountering periodic middle-class resistance.
Argentina
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Peru
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Bolivia
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Venezuela
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A series of agreements made in Kyoto, Warsaw, and Paris between 1997 and 2015 formulated targets for governments to begin reducing _______ by 2020.
nuclear weapons stockpiles
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greenhouse gas emissions
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the ozone hole
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populations
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