Question 1

Describe the new economy and what is meant by the term globalization. What are some negative aspects of the two concepts?

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Question 2

How have science and technology transformed people's lives in the last few decades? Have these advances reached people the world over, or is access to these advances limited?

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Question 3

What were the main trends in the creative arts and the social sciences in the second half of the twentieth century? How did these trends reflect the social, economic, and political realities of the period?

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Question 4

What are some of the debates that have shaped the role of the United Nations in international affairs? How has its participation and intervention in the world changed in recent decades?

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Question 5

What were the origins of the United States' involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq? How successful has the United States been in attaining its goals? What kinds of developments and events have hindered progress in the war on terror?

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Question 6

What major problems did the world face in the 1990s? Which do you consider to be the gravest threat? What possibilities exist for overcoming that problem?

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Question 7

What led to Europe's post-Cold War gloom in the early 1990s?

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Question 8

Why did unemployment become a serious problem for western Europe in the late twentieth century? How did western European countries attempt to overcome this problem?

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Question 9

What was entailed in the "third way" approach endorsed by politicians like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair? How effective were these policies?

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Question 10

In what ways did the European Union become further integrated? What obstacles still stood in the way of unification?

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Question 11

Why has scientific advance been questioned in the last decades of the twentieth century?

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Question 12

Why did religious fundamentalism find fertile ground in the late twentieth century?

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Question 13

What were the inspirations and demands of the late twentieth century women's movement?

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Question 14

What has caused the population explosion in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? Why have the United States and Europe remained unaffected?

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Quiz 27: The Changing Modern World