World Civilizations Ch. 31

As in many other places in the past decade, young people in ________ demonstrated a faith in democracy in 2009.

Tehran.

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

50.

Republicans in the US Congress shut down the government for 16 days in 2013 in a failed effort to defund the ________ Health Care Act, passed into law in 2010.

Affordable.

Osama Bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaeda, had earned his military skill and reputation by fighting the Soviets in

Afghanistan.

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

Because it follows the path laid out by Mao in his "little red book" so closely.

In 1994, President Clinton completed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with Mexico and ____.

Canada.

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.

What criteria does the United Nations use to distinguish between first, second, and third tier nations?

Econmic power

Although as many as 169 nations participated in the 2005 Kyoto Protocol, which region is the only one likely to reduce its emissions by the promised 5.2 percent?

European Union

By importing so many goods from China, the United States helped that nation to do what in the 1990s?

Industrialize

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

Iraq.

In 1991, U.S. President George H. W. Bush sent troops to invade Iraq, after that country had invaded

Kuwait

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.

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.

Tea Party

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 Green Line.

Among the critics of globalization, labor unions were concerned about what trend in the U.S. economy in the 1990s?

The decline of American manufacturing jobs

In 2002, the U.S. military budget was larger than the military budget of the next eight countries combined.

True

Former KGB officer_____________________ was president of Russia 2000-2008 and became president again after 2012.

Vladimir Putin

Islamists achieved breakthroughs in which two Middle Eastern countries/territories in the first decade of the 21[st] century?

Yemen and Syria

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

Yemen.

Russia was able to recover from its GDP depreciation in 1999-2001 because of its large reserves of

oil and gas.

Under the rule of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, what kind of government system remained in place, in spite of middle-class protests?

socialism

The Tea Party movement in the United States was largely concerned with what it saw as the excessive power of

the Federal government.