Deck 7: The US and the Global South: Practicing Intervention, Aid, and Neglect

Question 1

Which of the following involves foreign intervention in the Global South?

A) Sending physicians to help eradicate disease.
B) Attaching conditions to foreign aid.
C) Providing funds to the World Health Organization.
D) Providing funding for research into Ebola vaccines.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

In which way do failed states threaten U.S. security?

A) Terrorism.
B) Regional instability.
C) Transnational crime.
D) All of the above.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following is an indicator of fragile states?

A) Poverty.
B) Number of elections.
C) Size of armies.
D) All of the above.

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Where are most fragile countries located?

A) Latin America.
B) Southeast Asia.
C) Africa.
D) The Balkans.

Question 5

Which of the following is a fragile state?

A) Cuba.
B) Haiti.
C) Panama.
D) Uruguay.

Question 6

Which of the following is regarded as the world's most fragile state?

A) South Sudan.
B) Kenya.
C) Niger.
D) Pakistan.

Question 7

Why do U.S. leaders pay little attention to fragile states?

A) They tend to be unconcerned about poor countries.
B) They are absorbed by domestic challenges.
C) They regard many fragile states as hopeless.
D) They tend to focus on situations that pose immediate threats.

Question 8

What did President Obama regard as a key obstacle to strengthening fragile states?

A) Corruption.
B) Western trade policy.
C) Ethnic divisions.
D) Unfavorable climate.

Question 9

Which of the following provided aid to participants in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo?

A) South Sudan.
B) The Central African Republic.
C) Rwanda.
D) Zimbabwe.

Question 10

Which of the following was governed by Robert Mugabe?

A) South Sudan.
B) The Central African Republic.
C) Rwanda.
D) Zimbabwe.

Question 11

What policy in Zimbabwe contributed to the country's growing fragility?

A) Rapid urbanization of its capital city, Harare.
B) Clearing jungles in order to plant commercial crops.
C) Distributing farms seized from white owners to political supporters and government officials.
D) Initiating war against Lesotho.

Question 12

Where did a cholera epidemic infect hundreds of thousands of people in 2010?

A) South Africa.
B) Burundi.
C) Haiti.
D) Guatemala.

Question 13

What problem may result if a country receives large amounts of foreign aid quickly?

A) It may fuel a recession.
B) It may cause currency flight.
C) It may foster corruption.
D) It may require higher taxes.

Question 14

Which of the following was a major problem for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto?

A) Drug-related violence.
B) Pollution in the Gulf of Mexico.
C) American efforts to secure the border with Mexico.
D) The theft of funds by his political associates.

Question 15

Where did America send military advisers to help eradicate drug violence?

A) Mexico.
B) Colombia.
C) Peru.
D) Honduras.

Question 16

What policy made the United States increasingly popular in Africa?

A) Reducing domestic agricultural subsidies.
B) Sending troops to aid Nigerian counterterrorism.
C) Providing aid for combatting HIV/AIDS.
D) Trying to extradite Sudan's president to the International Criminal Court.

Question 17

What is the UN target for members' foreign aid?

A) 10 percent of nation income.
B) 0.7 percent of national income.
C) 5.8 percent of national income.
D) 0.19 percent of national income.

Question 18

How much does the U.S. spend on foreign aid?

A) 10 percent of nation income.
B) 0.7 percent of national income.
C) 5.8 percent of national income.
D) 0.19 percent of national income.

Question 19

For which of the following does the U.S. spend most of its foreign aid?

A) Economic development.
B) Global health.
C) Global education.
D) Humanitarian assistance.

Question 20

Which of the following did the Bush administration wish had been included in the Millennium Development Goals?

A) Achieving good governance.
B) Promoting gender equality.
C) Ensuring environmental sustainability.
D) Combatting HIV/AIDS.

Question 21

What was the objective of America's Millennium Challenge Account?

A) To provide a crash program to cope with the Ebola disease in West Africa.
B) To institute agricultural trade reforms.
C) To offer incentives for countries to demonstrate they could use aid responsibly and effectively.
D) To reduce the dependence of developing countries on raw material exports.

Question 22

Which of the following diseases is difficult to diagnose because it has symptoms associated with common respiratory ailments?

A) MERS.
B) Ebola.
C) Malaria.
D) Tuberculosis

Question 23

Where did the 2014 Ebola outbreak originate?

A) Niger.
B) Guinea.
C) Indonesia.
D) South Sudan.

Question 24

What region was most affected by the 2014 Ebola outbreak?

A) Southern Africa.
B) Northern Africa.
C) East Africa.
D) West Africa.

Question 25

Which of President Clinton's economic policies may have impeded efforts to combat HIV/AIDS?

A) Balancing the federal budget.
B) Supporting free trade.
C) Supporting intellectual property protection.
D) Reforming the welfare system.

Question 26

Which of the following was the most active in providing aid to combat HIV/AIDS?

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

Question 27

Which of the following UN agencies has global health as its main function?

A) ILO.
B) UNESCO.
C) WHO.
D) IMO.

Question 28

How does the principle of refoulement protect refugees?

A) It prevents their forcible return to their homeland.
B) It prevents their detention in the country to which they flee.
C) It outlaws human trafficking.
D) It requires that if in danger at sea they must be rescued.

Question 29

Refugees from which of the following countries long enjoyed a privileged status?

A) Russia.
B) Cuba.
C) China.
D) Haiti.

Question 30

The U.S. has interdicted and repatriated refugees from which of the following countries?

A) Russia.
B) Cuba.
C) China.
D) Haiti.

Question 31

Why are Americans concerned about refugees from Syria?

A) Increases in U.S. unemployment.
B) Fear of terrorism.
C) Welfare costs.
D) Language barrier.

Question 32

Which of the following was a member of the nonaligned movement during the Cold War?

A) Egypt.
B) Poland.
C) Portugal.
D) Latvia.

Question 33

For which of the following organizations was Danny Kaye a Goodwill Ambassador?

A) WHO.
B) UNICEF.
C) UNESCO.
D) UNHCR.

Question 34

Which of the following threatens human security?

A) Disease.
B) Environmental degradation.
C) Poverty.
D) All of the above.

Question 35

In which of the following countries did the United States intervene militarily in 1983?

A) Haiti.
B) Somalia.
C) Grenada.
D) The Dominican Republic.

Question 36

In what country did the Sandinistas hold power?

A) Honduras.
B) Nicaragua.
C) Panama.
D) Guatemala.

Question 37

In which country did the United States arrest Manuel Noriega?

A) Honduras.
B) Nicaragua.
C) Panama.
D) Guatemala.

Question 38

Why was Colombia a threat to the United States?

A) It was the source of most cocaine in the U.S.
B) It provided Cuba with inexpensive oil.
C) It imprisoned U.S. medical students.
D) It elected a communist president.

Question 39

Where did Washington first justify military intervention on humanitarian grounds?

A) Haiti.
B) Somalia.
C) Grenada.
D) The Dominican Republic.

Question 40

Which of the following represented an effort by President John

A) The Peace Corps.
B) The establishment of USAID
C) The Alliance for Progress.
D) The development Loan Fund.

Question 41

What country was cited as an example of "how to kill a country"?

Question 42

What was the Zeta cartel?

Question 43

What was the "Monterey Consensus"?

Question 44

What was PEPFAR?

Question 45

What is human security?

Question 46

What was the FARC?

Question 47

Who were François "Papa Doc" Duvalier and Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier?

Question 48

In what region did a debt crisis occur in the early 1980s?

Question 49

What anti-American regional group did Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez organize?

Question 50

Who was Nicolás Maduro?

Question 51

Paramilitaries that terrorize populations and bloated, ineffective, and corrupt bureaucracies are associated with _____________.

Question 52

The Bush administration introduced the ____________________ in 2002, a bilateral initiative to increase aid by 50 percent over three years.

Question 53

A _______________ is someone with a well-founded fear of persecution based on religion, race, nationality, political views, or membership in a particular social group, and cannot expect protection from their government.

Question 54

In 2014 the number of ___________________ apprehended trying to enter the country illegally increased to 60,000 from 13,625 in 2012.

Question 55

The U.S. seeks to woo less-developed countries like ____________________ that are influenced by China.

Question 56

In Latin America Washington seeks better relations with countries that might be attracted to the leftist policies of ____________.

Question 57

Fragile states threaten U.S. security by providing ________________ with safe havens.

Question 58

President Bill Clinton regarded failed states as a threat to stability in regions where America had clear interests, and viewed the solution as including ___________________ to prevent state failure.

Question 59

Formerly Zaire, civil war in erupted in ____________ in 1997 as a spillover from Rwanda's genocidal conflict.

Question 60

Mexican policy was successful in destroying the large Knights Templar, Gulf, and Zeta cartels, but ______________ increased dramatically as numerous, smaller cartel offshoots fought for control of territory.

Question 61

_____________ involved interdiction of drug shipments and coca eradication programs.

Question 62

_____________ was Haiti's first democratically elected president.

Question 63

The 1961 Foreign Assistance Act established ____________________________ to coordinate formerly separate, ad hoc foreign-aid programs.

Question 64

_____________________ was designed to help Europe recover from World War II and help their political institutions resist communist influence.

Question 65

In 1950, _________________ offered technical assistance to countries in Latin America and Asia.