chapter 31 quiz

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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

The 2008 presidential campaign led to the election of _____________________, a law professor and the first African American president of the United States.

Barack Obama

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

Bashar

Among signs of a major retreat from post-Cold War internationalist political, economic, and diplomatic trends is ________.

Brexit

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

Crimea

The revolution against Egypt's Hosni Mubarak was launched by the April 6 Youth Movement, a ________ group composed of social and political activists.

Facebook

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The recession of 2008-2011 began with:

the collapse of the housing market

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

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

Vladimir Putin

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

Yemen

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

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

After a Turkish military coup attempt in July 2016:

mass citizen rallies prompted the coup to collapse and ushered in waves of retaliatory purges

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

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

without the backing of the UN Security Council


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