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Chapter 31 Quiz
A Fragile Capitalist-Democratic World Order, 1991-2020
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During the 1990s, the sovereign countries in the world, formed 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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In 1992, with UN backing, US and coalition troops evicted the Iraqis from ___________ .
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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In 2014, ________ seized the Crimea from Ukraine.
Georgia
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Moldova
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Russia
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Turkey
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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 Affordable Care Act which provided health care insurance to all American citizens was passed during the presidency of _________________.
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 manufacturing sector
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That the United States did not adhere to the gold standard
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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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What started the recession of 2008-2011?
The bursting of the "Tech Bubble."
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A collapse of the housing market
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A large increase in energy prices
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A global pandemic
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Which of the following European countries were especially impacted by the recession of 2008-2011?
Greece
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Spain
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Ireland
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All of the above
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Islamists achieved breakthroughs in which two Middle Eastern countries/territories in the first decade of the 21
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Iraq and Yemen
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Yemen and Syria
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Syria and Lebanon
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Lebanon and the Gaza Strip
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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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A major reason for the continuation of poverty in India has been:
a lack of fully implemented land reform
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government corruption
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a sinking birthrate
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better integration into regional and global trade networks
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President Hugo Chávez's oil funded state socialism in ________ fell apart during the oil price slump of 2014-2016.
Argentina
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Bolivia
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Peru
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Venezuela
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Which of the signers of the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 is on track to meet the benchmarks for greenhouse gas reductions?
The United States
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The European Union
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China
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India
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A major factor in the United States' trade deficit shown above is:
its reliance on importing Middle Eastern Oil
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its importation of wool and minerals from Australia.
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its significant imports of manufactured goods from China.
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its importation of manufactured goods from Mexico and Canada.
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The above memorial is to Mohamed Bouazizi who helped spark the "Arab Spring." In which two countries did the "Arab Spring" succeed in ousting their long-time rulers?
Saudi Arabia
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Tunisia
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Syria
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Egypt
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Coal-fired powerplants, like the one pictured above, emit large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Pollutants and carbon dioxide that are emitted into the atmosphere are commonly called:
dark air pollutants
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greenhouse gases
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ozone inhibitors
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aerosol gas pollution
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