JROTC Global awareness Final
What South America trading bloc known as the "common market of the south"?
Mercosur
What program was established to address the "loose nukes" problem?
Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
What religion did Prince Vladimir make Russia's state religion in AD 988?
Byzantine Christian
What was one of the events that brought the soviet union and the united states as close as they ever came to a "Hot war" during the cold war?
1973 Arab-Israeli war
what american action led to an Arab oil embargo in 1973?
Americans support for Israel in the Yom Kippur war
What was the first international manned spaceflight?
Apollo-Soyuz
What did the space shuttle Atlantis accomplish during mission STS-71?
Became the first US space shuttle to dock with Mir
What British enterprise was privatized leading to one of the largest share offerings in history?
British telecom
What radical group did Vladimir I. Lenin lead?
Bolsheviks
How did Kievan Rus Princes Vladimir and Yaroslav increase their power?
By marrying off their female relatives to European kings
what did Muscovite prince Ivan I do to boost his power and give him an edge over his rivals?
Collected tribute money for the Mongol overlords
What type of government did the Provisional Government want to bring to Russia?
Democracy
What was the general economic state of the soviet union in the period after world war 2?
Economic growth rates outpaced the united states
which of the following countries is considered a Baltic state?
Estonia
When oil and gas prices are low, Russia, unlike other resources economics should see a strong increase in revenues?
False
What initiative address some of the same problems as the Nunn-Lugar program, but is a global effort with Russian partnership?
Global Initiative to combat nuclear terrorism
What country has been the target of a number of resolutions demanding that it follow the international atomic energy agency (IAEA) guideline?
Iran
What do many observers worry might happen to disrupt world oil supplies including those of the united states?
Israel might mound a military attack to try to halt Iran's nuclear program
What is an example of a question NASA and Russian scientists hoped to answer through experiments in space in the 1990s?
How plants and animals, including humans function in space
What country which has always been a democracy introduced significant free market reforms in 1991?
India
What country shares its northern border with Russia?
Kazakhstan
What inheritance issue led to the czar holding more and more power and the people less and less?
Lack of primogeniture kept noblemen from accumulating property
What soured many Russians soon after Russia marched into World War 1 in August 1914?
Military reversals and government incompetence
What country is Russia currently working with the united states, china, japan, and South Korea to bring into the family of nations?
North Korea
What might Russia's decrease in oil production in 2009 mean?
Only a few countries can still increase oil production
In what area does Vladimir Putin get high marks?
Overall economic policies
What did Khrushchev's tenure bring about in the Soviet life?
Relative Liberalization
What was part of the system that Stalin created?
Repression and terror
What is the world's second largest crude oil produce and exporter?
Russia
Why did Russia have the largest Jewish population in the world at the end of the eighteenth century?
Russia absorbed much of Poland and its Jewish population
What worries some experts about the international space station (ISS)?
Russia could try and use it as a bargaining chip
What branch of Islam do most Russian Muslims follow?
Sunni
What was the result of farm collectivization under Joseph V. Stalin?
Tens of millions of peasants starved to death
What was a factor in the serious economic crisis of 1998 in Russia?
The government borrowed too much money to pay for its budget deficit
How did government troops respond to the 1917 riots and strikes in Petrograd?
They turned their guns over to the angry crowds
What is the primary purpose of the International space station(ISS)?
To carry out research projects
Why did president Kennedy open talks with Soviet Nikita Khrushchev in 1962?
To discuss teaming up in space
What is one of the promises made by the signers of the global initiative to combat nuclear terrorism?
To not let terrorist use their countries as bases
After world war 2 the economic growth rates of the soviet union were impressive but the numbers hid a lot of inefficiency?
True
The United States could at some point need to turn to Russia for oil?
True
What country was considered the "Breadbasket of the soviet union"?
Ukraine
What is one of the countries that gave up it's nuclear weapons when the soviet union dissolved?
Ukraine
What is one of the five "influential authoritarian states" that freedom House said are "actively undermining democracy within their borders abroad"?
Venezuela
What has Russia already done that demonstrates their use of oil and gas as geopolitical leverage?
With held supplies to force prices up in Europe
What have most countries signed on to as an effort yo lower trade barriers such as taxes globally?
World trade organization
What model did the soviets stick with even though it didn't fit with the modern world?
central planning
Why do energy resources represent a vulnerability for Russia?
energy prices rise and fall in fairly wide swings
