ch 31 quiz

The global recession began in 2008 with a(n):

"Toxic" mortgage crisis that snowballed into a general credit crisis.

What caused the Venezuelan state-socialist system created by Hugo Chávez to break down during the second decade of the twenty-first century?

A lack of revenue due to a slump in oil prices.

Republicans in the US Congress brought the country to a standstill in 2011 and 2013 over the ________ Care Act and the debt ceiling.

Affordable Care Act

According to the map, where is the greatest amount of global poverty located?

Africa

The sudden rise of ISIS in the summer of 2014 resulted in all of the following except:

American public support for a renewed American occupation of the region, with "boots on the ground".

Which US president sought to reduce US global military presence and the defense budget?

Barack Obama

In Syria, hopes for an Arab Spring were dashed almost immediately by the horrific violence inflicted by its leader, ________ al-Assad.

Bashar

The policies of "globalization" were shaped and directed, in great measure, by the advisors of US President ______ in the 1990s.

Bill Clinton

Russian president Vladimir Putin took advantage of protests against Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovych to annex ________ in 2014.

Crimea

Two years after its independence, South Sudan:

Degenerated into an ethnic civil war.

In August 2008, Putin provoked the former Soviet republic of ________, which was on track for admission into NATO, into a conflict that resulted in Russian control over one-fifth of its territory.

Georgia

What happened within one year of Muhamad Morsi being elected president of Egypt?

He was removed from power by way of a military coup.

Which Lebanese group has played an important role in militarily supporting the al-Assad regime in Syrian civil war?

Hezbollah

Despite the success of the middle class in _________, an overwhelming majority of people in villages lived in extreme poverty during the 1990s.

India

At the head of a coalition force and with United Nations backing, the US evicted the Iraqis from _____ in 1991.

Kuwait

During the civil war in _______ in 1994, the ethnic majority Hutus massacred the Tutsi ethnic minority.

Rwanda

After the death of Josip Tito, the politician Slobodan Milošević, during the late 1980s, worked to establish political dominance by exploiting the demographic superiority of the ______ community.

Serbian

In 2005, Israel withdrew from _______ in order to improve its security.

The Gaza Strip

From what climate change agreement did President Trump withdraw the United States from in 2017?

The Paris Agreement

Which country decided to leave the European Union?

The United Kingdom

Which of the following was not an economic reform carried out by North Korea starting in 2002?

The replacement of socialism with a capitalist market economy.

The Nigerian government has, in recent years, proved incompetent against the rapidly expanding Islamist movement Boko Haram, which means "________".

western education is sin

Since the early 2000s, the so-called BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, India, and China, as well as Turkey and _______, have been added to the first tier of global economic powers.

Mexico

Into the early 2000s, the Chinese government touted itself as a "harmonious society", _____.

in which all segments of the populace work together and there is no tolerance for "disruptive elements."

According to the chart on the map above, which country is the largest emitter of CO 2?

China

Despite the stated aims of the invasion of ________ in March 2003, no weapons of mass destruction were discovered in that country.

Iraq

Until 2019, the terrorist organization known as ISIS was led by a former al-Qaeda operative from _______.

Iraq

What are the two characteristics that make the United States the sole superpower in the world?

It is the favored destination for manufactured goods and its currency is used for all oil sales and purchases

One of the recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was Tawakkol Karman, leader of the Women Journalists Without Chains protest movement in ______.

Yemen

Recep Erdoğan's party, AKP, garnered slightly more than half of the vote, on which basis they

enacted constitutional reforms which rescinded the military's power in politics

During the 1990s, the United States became a leader in:

high tech industries

By 1992, al-Qaeda (Arabic for "__________") had emerged as the principal terrorist organization operating on a global scale.

the base

The recession of 2008-2011 began with

the collapse of the housing market

If projections of the effects of climate change hold true, the globe will experience all of the following conditions except:

Biodiversity will be dramatically increased, with rising sea levels leading to the generation of new animal and plant species.

Only two centuries after its beginnings, the pattern of capitalist modernity characterized by market exchange and consumerism encompassed roughly _______% of the world's population.

90

By the 1990s, the United States' economy had become an even deeper "sinkhole", this time for cheap industrial goods made in _____.

China

The election of the pragmatic Hasan Rouhani as president of Iran in 2013 led to:

Limitations Iran's nuclear program.

In March 2003, President George W. Bush ordered a preemptive invasion of Iraq:

without the backing of the UN security council