Deck 26: The Remaking of the Global System, Since 1945

Question 1

What was the Kyoto Protocol of 1997 intended to stop?

A) Global warming
B) Ethnic cleansing
C) Nuclear proliferation

Answer 1

Global warming

Question 2

Which advantage held by industrialized economies does globalization sometimes reduce?

A) Dominance in finance
B) Dominance in factory ownership
C) Dominance in military technology

Answer 2

Dominance in factory ownership

Question 3

Intervention in which of the following regions proved to be a disaster for the Soviet Union?

A) Poland
B) Hungary
C) Afghanistan

Answer 3

Afghanistan

Question 4

Who aided the colonial French forces in Vietnam, in their attempt to fight off Ho Chi Minh's forces?

A) Britain
B) The Dutch
C) United States

Question 5

Which of the following was NOT a new technology of the Third Industrial Revolution?

A) Automation
B) High-strength steel
C) Computers

Question 6

Which of the following resulted from the 9/11 terrorist attacks?

A) Greater U.S. involvement in European affairs
B) Stronger relations between the United States and Russia
C) U.S.-led military interventions across the Islamic world

Question 7

Which of the following was NOT a problem of world peace after the Cold War?

A) Conflict in Rwanda
B) Rise of militant Islam
C) Civil war in China

Question 8

Nuclear warfare almost erupted in 1962, when the Soviet Union secretly placed missiles where?

A) Poland
B) Mexico
C) Cuba

Question 9

The Cold War was particularly characterized by the United States and the USSR racing to acquire what?

A) Global popularity
B) Rare natural resources
C) Nuclear and conventional arms

Question 10

By 2018, the United States produced roughly how much of the world's goods and services?

A) 51 percent
B) 29 percent
C) 18 percent

Question 11

Some Asian countries during the 1990s effectively mixed which two economic strategies?

A) Mercantilism and Communism
B) Capitalism and Socialism
C) Socialism and Communism

Question 12

The first Cold War-era direct intervention by the United States in another nation's internal politics was in which country?

A) Nicaragua
B) West Germany
C) Iran

Question 13

The second- and third-largest economies today, after the United States, are which of the following?

A) Germany and Japan
B) China and Japan
C) China and Germany

Question 14

India is a major area to which U.S. jobs are outsourced because of which of the following?

A) Low taxes and high wages
B) Few people fluent in English
C) Many people skilled in information technology

Question 15

The first Western colony to be given independence after World War II was which of the following?

A) The Philippines, by the United States
B) Algeria, by the French
C) India, by the British

Question 16

In the global economy, which of the following has been an advantage for Japan and Western industrialized nations?

A) Little control over capital.
B) Control over most financial institutions.
C) Their corporations only operate internally.

Question 17

When were biological weapons banned by international treaty?

A) 1996
B) 1945
C) 1972

Question 18

Which of the following problems have liberal democratic regimes faced in from the 2010s?

A) An increase in right-wing populism that promotes autocratic norms
B) A decrease in technological capacity to connect humans across the globe
C) The outbreak of many civil wars across the democratic world

Question 19

Which international institution regulates currency dealings and financial problems?

A) International Monetary Fund
B) World Bank
C) World Trade Organization

Question 20

What United States President led the effort to form a coalition against Iraq following its invasion of Kuwait?

A) Bill Clinton
B) George H.W. Bush
C) George W. Bush

Question 21

The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh was opened in order to achieve what outcome?

A) To borrow money to develop nuclear weapons
B) To create a new form of Islamic banking
C) To provide small loans to peasant women

Question 22

How did US-USSR rivalry affect decolonization?

Question 23

What enduring problems prevent larger investments in development projects in the developing world?

A) Lack of resources
B) Resistance to innovation
C) Corruption

Question 24

Which of the following best describes the United Nations' prognosis for the health of the world's climate in 2019?

A) Harmful climate change is occurring faster, in more places, and with greater intensity than predicted.
B) The consequences of climate change will likely be able to be repaired in the next decade or two.
C) Climate change is occurring quickly but it will not be harmful for most people in developed states.

Question 25

In 2009, it was estimated that roughly one billion people still suffered from what?

A) Illiteracy
B) Hunger
C) Social alienation

Question 26

Why did the United States continue to support some colonial regimes even into the 1970s?

A) For trade benefits
B) To keep diplomatic relations strong with Europe
C) In order to fight communism

Question 27

Which of the following regions has experienced particularly robust population growth since 1950?

A) North America
B) Africa
C) Europe

Question 28

What ideological camps was the world dividing into by the late 1940s?

Question 29

How do demographers think the world population will be best described in 2050?

A) Just under 10 billion
B) About the same as today because of lower birth rates
C) Over 12 billion

Question 30

Most of the world's 100 million migrants move because of which of the following?

A) Economic and environmental pressures
B) War and conflict
C) Pleasure

Question 31

How did France and the Netherlands attempt to reassert their control in their former colonies and what results did they have?

Question 32

By 1980, what major territorial empire was left mostly intact?

A) The United States
B) The USSR
C) The British Empire

Question 33

Which of the following describes one way that development directly contributes to climate change?

A) It usually results in the destruction of forests that act as important carbon sinks.
B) It usually results in the blocking of rivers and streams.
C) It usually exposes people in developing states to new diseases.

Question 34

About how many species have been severely affected by environmental degradation caused by humans?

A) About 10,000
B) About 1,000,000
C) About 1,000

Question 35

What was the Mau Mau movement and why was it significant?

Question 36

Describe the concepts of the first, second, and third world.

Question 37

Which of the following best describes the 2015 Paris Climate Accords?

A) An agreement between states to each develop measures to combat greenhouse gas emissions according to national priorities
B) An agreement between states that requires all of them to do specific things to achieve reductions in emissions
C) An agreement that, in principle, climate change is harmful.

Question 38

What measures were taken to prevent a massive U.S.-Soviet confrontation?

Question 39

What major African lake has lost 90 percent of its water in the last quarter-century?

A) Victoria
B) Tanganyika
C) Chad

Question 40

Why do global financial crises affect development in the developing world so severely?

A) They usually cause a collapse in export-based economies.
B) They usually mean that too much foreign investment flows into the developing world.
C) They don't usually affect the developing world that much because of their removal from global finance.

Question 41

Continuing strong political and economic influence by former colonial powers in their former colonies is known as which of the following?

A) Postcolonialism
B) Neocolonialism
C) Globalization

Question 42

To what extent did European states decolonize because of anticolonial resistance, and to what extent did they do so for their own internal reasons?

Question 43

What were the Kyoto Protocols and why were they significant?

Question 44

What challenges to world order have replaced the U.S.-Soviet rivalry in the contemporary world?

Question 45

What effects have the 1.8 degree rise of global mean temperature had on life on Earth?

Question 46

What is the Belt and Road initiative and why is it significant?

Question 47

What is the role of free trade in today's economy?

Question 48

How do consumption patterns of developed and developing states differ?

Question 49

How did the Cold War shape U.S. responses to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan?

Question 50

What concerns typically prevent large-scale investments in developing regions?

Question 51

What opportunities does globalization provide?

Question 52

How is globalization affected by the spread of technology?

Question 53

How are globalization and industrialization related?

Question 54

How did the Cold War shape U.S. responses to Korean and Vietnam conflicts?

Question 55

What is the role of the IMF?

Question 56

What are the provisions of the Paris Climate Accord and why are they significant?

Question 57

What functions does the United Nations serve?

Question 58

Who benefits the most from investments in developing regions?

Question 59

What function does the U.N. security council serve?

Question 60

Social revolutionary regimes in former colonial areas often engaged what social class?

A) Former colonial landowners
B) Peasants
C) Educated professionals

Question 61

How can globalization benefit developed and developing states? How can it harm them?

Question 62

How did postcolonial states attempt to rebuild politically, economically, and socially after the experience of colonialism? What role did foreign powers play in this process?

Question 63

How was the development of the U.S.-China relationship different to the U.S.-Soviet relationship? What affects has this had on present U.S.-China relations?

Question 64

To what extent is investment in developing states a new form of colonialism?

Question 65

Why did Indonesia, India, Egypt, and other states join the "nonaligned" movement during the Cold War?

A) To avoid being drawn in to U.S.-Soviet conflicts
B) To speed up their nuclear programs
C) To end U.S. occupation

Question 66

How were the United Nations and the League of Nations different to each other? What similarities existed between them?

Question 67

Which of the following has the largest effect on climate change: population increase, industrial emissions, or energy production? What measures can be taken to limit these effects?

Question 68

Which international organization tracks poverty and living conditions across the globe?

A) The IMF
B) The World Bank
C) The United Nations

Question 69

What policies and strategies informed U.S. responses to the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Afghanistan War? How were these policies and strategies different from or similar to one another?

Question 70

What role does new industrial, agricultural, and communication technology have in today's global economy? To what extent does this amount to a "fourth industrial revolution" and to what extent is it normal growth?

Question 71

Which of the countries that had social revolutionaries after 1949 had the most economic success?

A) China
B) Cuba
C) Algeria

Question 72

Social revolutionary movements in China, Vietnam, and Cuba received support from which of the following states?

A) France
B) The United States
C) The Soviet Union

Question 73

How is the global economy influenced by international organizations and initiatives like the IMF, the WTO, and multilateral trade agreements such as NAFTA?

Question 74

What evidence exists to support the claim that radical and large-scale action must be taken now to prevent further climate catastrophe?

Question 75

To what extent is it accurate to refer to the period of U.S.-Soviet rivalry after World War II as a "Cold" War?