Strayer 23 Quiz Version 2

Which of the following statements best describes the global economy in the period between the first and second world wars?

It contracted sharply

Where did the conference meet that in 1944 established rules for postwar globalization, including the creation of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund?

Bretton Woods

What is neo-liberalism?

An approach to the world economy that favored tariff reductions and other steps to encourage free markets and private entrepreneurship

Huge global businesses that produce goods or deliver services in many countries are known as

transnational corporations (TNCs).

Which of the following is a characteristic of globalization in the twentieth century?

New patterns of human migration

Which of the following is true of developing countries in the period since World War II?

There is great disparity among the developing countries.

Which of the following is a reason for the erosion of the American middle class over the last few decades?

There is great disparity among the developing countries.

What was the main reason behind the 1994 Chiapas rebellion in Mexico?

Opposition to economic globalization

The international organization that regulates global commerce and promotes free trade is called

the World Trade Organization

Which of the following statements best describes the United States' share in world production in the period since 1945?

It has declined sharply, from about 50 percent in 1945 to 20 percent by the 1980s.

Which of the following states tried to lessen American influence in its affairs by trying to play off the USSR against the United States?

Egypt

In 1968, Alexander Dubcek initiated sweeping reforms that hoped to create "socialism with a human face" in which communist country?

Czechoslovakia

What was the Soviet Union's response to the "Prague Spring" of 1968?

The Soviet Union sent troops to crush it.

Why is Che Guevara important to the history of the twentieth century?

He became the symbol of third-world liberation movements.

This 1963 work of classic feminism revealed the identity crisis of educated women.

The Feminine Mystique

Which of the following was a reason why many women in the Global South felt disconnected from the Western feminist movement?

They found the Western feminist movement to be too focused on individualism and sexuality.

In which country were women, officially "invisible" in the public sphere, able to expose human rights abuses and help return their country to democratic rule in 1990?

Chile

Which of the following statements is true of Christianity in the twentieth century?

*It has largely avoided the fundamentalism that has taken root in Islam.

In which of the following countries did a major fundamentalist nationalist movement develop in the 1980s?

India

Which of the following is a reason for the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in the twentieth century?

Awareness of the huge technological and economic gap between Islamic civilizations and the West

The Muslim Brotherhood, the earliest Islamic mass movement, developed in which country?

Egypt

In which of the following states did an Islamic movement come to power and implement sharia as the basis of law?

Afghanistan

Why was al-Qaeda founded?

To supply fighters and funds for the Afghan resistance during the Soviet-Afghan War

What book started the second wave of environmentalism in the West in 1962?

Silent Spring

What was a major difference between western environmental movements and environmentalists in developing countries?

Western environmentalists were concerned more with issues of pollution and limiting growth; environmentalists in developing countries were more concerned with food security and social justice.

In what way has mainstream Christianity responded to the effects of globalization?

By addressing the moral and ethical problems of social justice, human rights, and the suffering of the poor throughout the world

Why did Osama bin Laden and the other leaders of al-Qaeda come to declare the United States their enemy?

They objected to American military presence in Saudi Arabia after the first Gulf War.

Which best characterizes the strategies that Islamic fundamentalist groups pursued to achieve their political aims?

Most attempted to gain power through elections and by placing members in influential government and social positions, but some sought violent revolutions.

Which of the following best describes the response of global fundamentalism to modernity?

A selective rejection that seeks an alternative, more religious modernity

Which of the following best describes the "American Empire" that developed in the second half of the twentieth century?

A nonterritorial empire of economic, military, and cultural power