Ch. 31
Although US troops invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, searching for Osama bin Laden, he was assassinated in May _______.
2011
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
In Syria, hopes for an Arab Spring were dashed almost immediately by the horrific violence inflicted by its leader, ________ al-Assad
Bashar
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.
Among signs of a major retreat from post-Cold War internationalist political, economic, and diplomatic trends is ________.
Brexit
Into the early 2000s, the Chinese government touted itself as a "harmonious society", _____.
But it does not tolerate "disruptive elements" advocating independence for ethnic and religious minorities.
By the 1990s, the United States' economy had become an even deeper "sinkhole", this time for textiles, toys, and simple electrical and electronic devices made in _____.
China
Russian president Vladimir Putin took advantage of protests against Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovych to annex ________ in March 2014.
Crimea
Two years after its independence, South Sudan:
Degenerated into a civil war between its president and former vice president.
Two recessions in the first decade of the 2000s in the U.S. were centered upon what industries?
Dot-com industry and housing
The revolution against Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was launched by the April 6 Youth Movement, a ________ group composed of social and political activists.
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
Despite the stated aims of the invasion of ________ in March 2003, no weapons of mass destruction were discovered in that country.
Iraq
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
The terrorist organization known as ISIS is led by a former al-Qaeda operative from _______.
Iraq
At the head of a coalition force and with United Nations backing, the US evicted the Iraqis from _____ in Operation Desert Storm (1991).
Kuwait
With UN backing, President George H. W. Bush ordered US troops to evict the Iraqis from ___________ in Operation Desert Storm.
Kuwait
The election of Hasan Rouhani as president of Iran in 2013 led to:
Limitations Iran's nuclear program.
After a Turkish military coup attempt in July 2016
Mass citizen rallies prompted the coup to collapse and ushered in waves of retaliatory purges
Since the early 2000s, the so-called BRIC countries, Brazil, Russia, Indonesia, and China, as well as Turkey and _______, have been added to the first tier of global economic powers.
Mexico
During the civil war in _______ in 1994, the ethnic majority Hutus massacred the Tutsi ethnic minority by the hundreds of thousands.
Rwanda
Slobodan Milosevic was an ethnic ______.
Serb
After the death of Josip Tito, the politician Slobodan Milošević advocated the "cleansing" of minority groups in the interest of creating a "greater ______".
Serbia
In the summer of 2015, roughly 890,000 refugees from _________ entered Germany.
Syria
By 1992, al-Qaeda (Arabic for "__________") had emerged as the principal terrorist organization operating on a global scale.
The Base
Israel began building a border fence in 2002 along ________, supplemented in places by a wall of concrete slabs, and it was completed in 2013.
The entire length of the occupied West Bank
During the 1990s, there were some 190 sovereign countries in the world, forming a(n) _________________.
Three-tier hierarchy
Which Middle Eastern country has largely escaped Islamist militancy?
Turkey
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
Venezuela
Former KGB officer _____________________ was president of Russia 2000-2008 and became president again after 2012.
Vladimir Putin
The Nigerian government has, in recent years, proved incompetent against the rapidly expanding Islamist movement Boko Haram, which means "________".
Western education is sin
In March 2003, President George W. Bush ordered a preemptive invasion of Iraq:
Without the backing of the UN Security Council.
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
In the 1990s, _________________ became an entirely new branch of industry.
information technology
In 2000, about _______ of the world's population of 6 billion lived in fully industrialized countries, two-thirds in middle-income countries, and 15 percent in poor countries.
one fifth
In the attempt to boost East Asian economies and thwart the advance of communism, the United States became an import _______________.
sinkhole
The recession of 2008-2011 began with
the collapse of the housing market