Deck 54: A New Millennium

Question 1

Describe and discuss the world's current situation concerning environmental issues.What is meant by "global warming"? How much of a problem do you expect it to be in America? In Western Europe? In other parts of the world?

Answer 1

Answers would include a discussion of greenhouse gasses,energy use,developed country use versus developing country use,political issues,and nonrenewable energy sources along with critical thinking speculation on possible US responses to these pressing problems.

Question 2

What were the different approaches to social reform?

Answer 2

Answers would include a discussion of the end of communism,increase in standards of living for the developed nations,and continuing struggles in the developing nations with strategies such as shift in manual to mental work and the struggles they still face.

Question 3

Chernobyl is noted as the site where

A) Chechen rebels have been massacred.
B) the people voted to secede from the CIS.
C) all the trees have been cut for fuel.
D) President Putin was born.
E) a nuclear meltdown occurred.

Answer 3

a nuclear meltdown occurred.

Question 4

Explain the paradox of the world's "economic gap." What problems and challenges does it portend?

Question 5

The longest sustained economic advance in modern history is taking place in

A) Australia.
B) The West and Asia.
C) Russia.
D) Africa.
E) Both C and D are correct.

Question 6

The most powerful body in the United Nations is

A) The General Assembly.
B) The Security Council.
C) The World Health Organization.
D) International Labor Organization.
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 7

In 1950,the UN used a Security Council member's boycott to order defensive action for

A) Vietnam.
B) South Korea.
C) Romania.
D) Czechoslovakia.
E) Poland.

Question 8

How effective has the United Nations been in the 20?? century?

Question 9

The best statistics indicate that each person in the United States averages using about ____ times as much energy as a person in India,and about ____ times as much as an individual in Italy or ____'

A) thirty-five; three; France.
B) three; ten; France.
C) five; seven; Germany.
D) fifteen; two; England.
E) five; ten; France.

Question 10

The limits of international collaboration among states,especially within the confines of the United Nations,have been clearly shown through the

A) condemnation by most nations of the terrorist actions of al Qaida in 2001 in America.
B) successful coalition that stood up to Saddam Hussein in 1990-1991 when he sent his troops into neighboring Kuwait.
C) general support for the campaign to remove the Taliban from Afghanistan in the aftermath of September 11.
D) quarrels among nations over the United States' decision to begin an invasion of Iraq in to remove Saddam from power (though ostensibly searching for WMDs).
E) efforts of the World Bank to help Third World countries receive loans for crops.

Question 11

After the United States,the Soviet Union,Britain,and France,the next country to "go nuclear" was

A) Israel.
B) Japan.
C) India.
D) Pakistan.
E) China.

Question 12

Osama bin Laden is a native of

A) Afghanistan.
B) Pakistan.
C) Saudi Arabia.
D) Yemen.
E) Palestine.

Question 13

About the only way for Third World workers to improve their lot is to

A) immigrate to America.
B) steal.
C) migrate to the cities.
D) find work in neighboring countries.
E) grow their own food.

Question 14

What was meant by "women's liberation" and what impact has this had on social foundations such as the family?

Question 15

Discuss the significant threats to human life as a result of manmade inventions.

Question 16

The avowed goal of the United Nations is to

A) end poverty.
B) alleviate famine.
C) reduce the rate of population growth.
D) achieve international peace.
E) achieve economic parity for the world's countries.

Question 17

Which of these could not be used as a weapon of mass destruction (WMD)?

A) Biological - release of epidemic disease germs or poisons into the atmosphere.
B) Poisoning municipal water supplies with a substance designed to kill or maim at least 100,000.
C) Introducing diseases such as anthrax through the postal system.
D) Infecting a person or persons with a deadly disease and sending them out to seek to infect as many people as possible before they die.
E) Getting infected with the flu virus and going out to full ballpark stadiums.

Question 18

How do most women today feel about the feminist movement?

A) Excited
B) Complacent
C) Angry
D) Indifferent
E) Lost

Question 19

One of the world's major problems today seems to be that our ethics and our political culture have been outrun by

A) greed.
B) terrorists.
C) political hubris.
D) popular culture.
E) technology.

Question 20

Historian John Lukacs has defined the 20?? century by which of the following?

A) Technological advances
B) Religious toleration
C) Economic egalitarianism
D) The Cold War
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 21

Regarding the United Nations during the Cold War

A) they were able to intervene every time one member had a concern.
B) they were so restricted in their powers that they were never able to intervene.
C) they could only reprimand a country, not act.
D) they were only able to intervene a few times due to voting procedures.
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 22

Among social democrats,____________________ rather than revolution and ____________________ rather than radical change have become the order of the day.

Question 23

The gap between the wealth of developed and developing countries has

A) widened.
B) remained constant.
C) has slightly declined.
D) has been reversed.
E) has greatly declined.

Question 24

In terms of higher education in the West,

A) fewer students have access.
B) students find it difficult to find funds to sustain them while in college.
C) many states in the US have scholarships to help students out.
D) few women take advantage of access to higher education.
E) Both B and D are correct.

Question 25

All of the following nations possess nuclear weapons EXCEPT

A) South Africa.
B) France.
C) India.
D) China.
E) Saudi Arabia.

Question 26

Simone de Beauvoir's important work on modern womanhood is ____________________.

Question 27

____________________ out of the working classes into the technical or professional groups has become common throughout the developed world.

Question 28

Which of the following explains why Eastern Europe responded differently to communism than Asia?

A) The people of Eastern Europe were more directly affected by World War II.
B) The people of Eastern Europe had experienced social and political freedoms and were not willing to give those up.
C) The people of Asia had such a high standard of living that they did not fear communism.
D) The people of Asia were more directly affected by the use of atomic weapons.
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 29

There are only two rational approaches to the solution of basic environmental problems: ____________________ and ____________________.

Question 30

____________________ is the poorest country in the world,with a 2007 per capita income of ____________________.

Question 31

By the 1970s,it was fair to say that only ____________________ in ____________________ and ____________________ in ____________________ gave more than lip service to Marx's original doctrines of social and economic egalitarianism.

Question 32

One concern about WMDs is the possibility that ____________________ warfare could be used to pollute our water supply.

Question 33

All of the following are true regarding legal changes for women in the West EXCEPT

A) Laws prohibiting paying women less than men.
B) Laws prohibiting discrimination against women in terms of credit.
C) Laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of gender in employment.
D) Laws prohibiting women from attending a major university.
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 34

All of the following are major environmental problems we are facing today EXCEPT

A) pollution.
B) global warming.
C) loss of renewable energy sources.
D) reforestation.
E) Both A and B are correct.

Question 35

The main argument explaining why more women have not pursued strong political careers has been

A) they simply do not have the time to do so when struggling to survive.
B) they simply do not have issues that need to be addressed.
C) they simply have no interest in politics.
D) there are no strong female leaders as role models.
E) None of the options are correct.

Question 36

The original goal of the UN was to guarantee ____________________.

Question 37

Downward mobility has hit Africa and Latin America extremely hard,especially

A) farmers.
B) miners.
C) urban workers.
D) urban workers and immigrants.
E) farmers and miners.

Question 38

A major social change in recent years has been a shift in focus from the family to

A) religion.
B) the individual.
C) political party.
D) technology.
E) Both A and C are correct.

Question 39

The takfiri are a Muslim group that advocates

A) holy war against infidels.
B) peace talks between Israel and Palestine.
C) a resolution between Muslims in Pakistan with India.
D) a peaceful resolution between the Muslim and Christian worlds.
E) unity between Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims.

Question 40

A large majority of scientists today attribute what they now view as global warming to the emission of ____________________.

Question 41

Regarding the proliferation of nuclear weapons,the next countries to obtain such after the United States and the Soviet Union were ____________________ and ____________________,and the fifth country was ____________________.