Deck 16: The Challenge of a New Millennium

Question 1

Identify the following terms:
future of the traditional family system

Answer 1

Answer not provided.

Question 2

Identify the following terms:
Francis Fukuyama's The End of History and the Last Man

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

Identify the following terms:
Alvin Toffler's Third Wave

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

Identify the following terms:
"the new world order"

Question 5

Identify the following terms:
the Technological Revolution

Question 6

Identify the following terms:
Kyoto agreement, 1997

Question 7

Identify the following terms:
"East Asian miracle"

Question 8

Identify the following terms:
Chernobyl, 1986

Question 9

Identify the following terms:
Thomas Malthus

Question 10

Identify the following terms:
"the end of history?"

Question 11

Identify the following terms:
Asia's financial crisis of 1997

Question 12

Identify the following terms:
"the American century"

Question 13

Identify the following terms:
"Green" movements

Question 14

Identify the following terms:
Jiang Zemin and Human Rights

Question 15

Identify the following terms:
evangelical Christians

Question 16

Identify the following terms:
the "Blue Revolution"

Question 17

Identify the following terms:
globalization

Question 18

Identify the following terms:
the "postindustrial age"

Question 19

Identify the following terms:
global warming

Question 20

Identify the following terms:
end of the Cold War

Question 21

According to recent figures, the number of people that are illiterate is

A) 1.4 billion.
B) 800 million.
C) 3.6 billion.
D) 2.5 billion.
E) 550 million.

Question 22

By the end of the twentieth century, the "East Asian miracle"

A) continued to outperform the West in economic production and profits.
B) had become less miraculous after the financial crisis of 1997.
C) was led by Japan's continuing strong economic performance.
D) was being copied by many Western countries, including the United States.
E) had failed in the People's Republic of China but was still succeeding in the Philippines and Indonesia.

Question 23

Identify the following terms:
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide

Question 24

The book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide was written by

A) Nicholas Kristoff and Sheryl WuDunn.
B) Angela Merkel and William Kristal.
C) Thomas Malthus and Paul Ehrlich.
D) Al Gore and Hillary Clinton.
E) Frank Gehry and Phillip Glass.

Question 25

The EU country that was most reluctant to assistant other countries during the economic collapse was

A) Germany.
B) Spain.
C) United Kingdom.
D) Switzerland.
E) Greece.

Question 26

Identify the following terms:
financial crisis of 2008

Question 27

A general economic slow down at the beginning of the new century lead to the following problems except

A) rising unemployment.
B) growing resentment of recent immigrants.
C) reduction of governmental expenditures on social services.
D) shrinking retirement benefits.
E) inflation.

Question 28

Identify the following terms:
the "McWorld culture"

Question 29

Alvin Toffler's Third Wave is the

A) Agricultural Revolution.
B) Industrial Revolution.
C) Democratic Revolution.
D) Technological Revolution.
E) Post-Communist Restoration.

Question 30

Globalization made the economic downturn of 2008 harder because

A) world leaders inability to insulate their peoples from the fluctuations of the marketplace.
B) immigration stopped.
C) outsourcing forced workers to move to other countries to maintain their jobs.
D) natural resources had been depleted.
E) environmentalists forced struggling countries to enforce the Kyoto Protocols.

Question 31

Divisive religious fervor is still apparent today in

A) Catholic France and Italy.
B) Shinto and Buddhist Japan.
C) Great Britain and the United States.
D) Northern Ireland and the Middle East.
E) Southern Africa and Russia.

Question 32

In the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the American president who envisioned a coming era of peace and international cooperation that he labeled the "new world order" was

A) Jimmy Carter.
B) Ronal Reagan.
C) George H. W. Bush.
D) Bill Clinton.
E) George W. Bush.

Question 33

Many observers claim that the world

A) will revert to a pre-industrial age.
B) has entered a post-industrial age.
C) has achieved an ideological equilibrium.
D) has ended history as the world has known it.
E) will revert to a subsistence-led agricultural civilization.

Question 34

Identify the following terms:
Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain

Question 35

Evangelical Protestant Christianity has

A) played no political role in Western societies.
B) declined and almost disappeared in the United States.
C) spread in Latin America, in part because of the Catholic Church's conservative position on several social issues.
D) made millions of converts in the Middle East.
E) supported abortion rights in the United States.

Question 36

Identify the following terms:
postmodernism

Question 37

The decline of the traditional family is most apparent in

A) Communist China.
B) Japan and East Asia.
C) the West, including the United States.
D) primarily in the Africa south of the Sahara.
E) the alienated communities of the modern Middle East.

Question 38

During the first decade of the century, in the United States the rich

A) struggled under massive tax codes.
B) got richer.
C) saw their wealth decline while the poor gained access to better jobs.
D) witnessed little benefits.
E) supported efforts to reduce the imbalance between the rich and the poor.

Question 39

Identify the following terms:
Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order

Question 40

The financial crisis of 2008 was caused by the following except

A) excessive taxation.
B) collapse of a housing bubble.
C) lax government regulatory procedures on lending.
D) rising credit card debt.
E) easy access to money for home mortgages.

Question 41

"McWorld culture" refers to the

A) world wide popularity of hamburgers.
B) influence of Western popular culture.
C) popularity of a particular brand of computer.
D) spread of capitalism and liberal democracy.
E) Scottish nationalist campaign for independence from Great Britain.

Question 42

1.4 billion people live on less than $1.25 per day.

Question 43

A "blue revolution" would

A) increase food yields from the oceans.
B) fight the rise of Red China.
C) educate women in Africa.
D) feed starving children in Mumbai.
E) reduce debt in developing countries.

Question 44

The disastrous symbol of environmental destruction caused by uncontrolled industrial pollution occurred at

A) Bombay, India.
B) Lyon, France.
C) Johannesburg, South Africa.
D) Shanghai, China.
E) Chernobyl, Ukraine.

Question 45

Obstacles to meeting the challenge of global warming include all of the following except

A) possible negative effects upon economic growth.
B) unwillingness of most countries to take unilateral action.
C) the lack of cooperation among advanced and developing nations.
D) a consensus among scientists that global warming is the result of natural rather than human actions.
E) politicians fear to embrace proposed measures.

Question 46

The author of The End of History and the Last Man is

A) Alvin Toffler.
B) Francis Fukuyama.
C) Samuel P. Huntington.
D) the Club of Rome.
E) Nelson Mandela.

Question 47

The most visible alternative to the democratic model is

A) Russia.
B) Iran.
C) China.
D) Mexico.
E) Germany.

Question 48

The political scientist Samuel P. Huntington predicted in a recent book that

A) a peaceful and prosperous globalization is inevitable.
B) Western values and institutions would soon dominate the world.
C) civilizations would clash because of ethnic, cultural, and religious differences.
D) Western institutions and values would be replaced by the Confucian values of Asia.
E) capitalism as an economic system would triumph but liberal democracy would succumb to religious fundamentalism.

Question 49

The End of History and the Last Man claims, that while not perfect, the systems most effective in satisfying most human aspirations are

A) enlightened despotism and mercantilism.
B) communism and state socialism.
C) capitalism and liberal democracy.
D) communal capitalism and authoritarian democracy.
E) republican oligarchy and the corporate state.

Question 50

It is predicted that by 2050 the world's population will have

A) reached 5.5 billion.
B) declined to 7 billion.
C) remained stable at 6 billion.
D) increased to 20 billion.
E) reached 9 billion.

Question 51

On example of what the text calls "humanity's indomitable spirit" is

A) Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind .
B) the Sears Tower in Chicago.
C) India's Taj Mahal.
D) Frank Gehry's museum in Bilbao, Spain.
E) Jean Paul Sartre's No Exit .

Question 52

One example of the new forms of conflict that occurred after the ending of the Cold War was in the Balkans.

Question 53

Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations was a corrective to the view

A) that the ideologies of communism and fascism will revive in the twenty-first century.
B) that the next century will be Asia's century.
C) that the Western paradigm of society is universal and will inevitably spread to the rest of the world.
D) the social failures of capitalism are inevitable.
E) of the imminent decline of religious fanaticism.

Question 54

The highest levels of industrial pollution are found today in

A) China.
B) the United States.
C) Japan.
D) Germany and France.
E) Iraq and Iran.

Question 55

The author Alvin Toffler's Third Wave is the Technological Revolution.

Question 56

The text claims that the scenario of the first several decades of the twenty-first century will be

A) an abandonment of capitalism and liberal democracy.
B) a revival or either fascism or communism.
C) greater globalization, leading to the "global village."
D) both globalization and fragmentation.
E) a clash of civilizations.

Question 57

The economic system that most openly accepts the acquisitive side of human nature is

A) communism.
B) capitalism.
C) socialism.
D) mercantilism.
E) corporatism.

Question 58

Globalization has been supported in the United States because

A) the industrial machine is dependent on the importation of raw materials.
B) it should reduce the number immigrants entering the country.
C) it creates new jobs in developing countries through outsourcing.
D) foreign competition will lead to job creation in the United States.
E) corporate profits depend upon the importation of consumer goods.

Question 59

Current rainforest destruction is infamously notable in

A) the United States and Canada.
B) China and Japan.
C) Russia and Eastern Europe.
D) Brazil and Indonesia.
E) the Republic of South Africa and Scandinavia.

Question 60

The collapse of the Soviet Union ended the Cold War but left many world leaders unprepared to face the new realities.

Question 61

Human destruction of the earth's environment began only in the late nineteenth century with the beginning of the industrial revolution.

Question 62

The author of The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order is Samuel P. Huntington.

Question 63

Many people's concerns over global warming lessened after the success of the international meetings in Kyoto.

Question 64

The decline of the traditional family is exclusively a phenomenon of Western society.