Chapter 20 MFM

Question 1

The name given to the 1917 letter from a British foreign secretary who seemed to make promises to both Zionists and Palestinians

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Balfour Declaration

Question 2

This occurred in 1956 when Egyption president Gamal Nasser seized control of certain French and British business interests in Egypt

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Suez Crisis

Question 3

This resulted in Israel’s 1967 annexation of the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, Jerusalem and the West Bank

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Six Day War

Question 4

In 1978, this Israeli prime minister signed the Camp David Accords and agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt

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Menachem Begin

Question 5

This Egyption president signed the Camp David Accords and recognized Israel as a legitimate state, enraging many Arabs.

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Anwar Sadat

Question 6

This Egyptian president took office after the assassination of Anwar Sadat by Muslim extremists in 1981; he kept the peace with Israel

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Hosni Mubarak

Question 7

In the 1970s and 1980s, this group’s military wing conducted a violent campaign against Israel, which in turn bombed Palestinian towns thought to be the group’s strongholds

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PLO

Question 8

In the late 1980s Palestinians began this “uprising,” a campaign of civil disobedience that succeeded in putting in international pressure on Israel

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Intifada

Question 9

This Palestinian leader took part in reaching the Oslo peace agreement

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Yasir Arafat

Question 10

This Israeli prime minister signed the Oslo peace agreement and was assassinated in 1995 by a Jewish extremist

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Yitzhak Rabin

Question 11

Before 1990, the most powerful policy making body in the soviet union was

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the Politburo

Question 12

The reforms that led to democratization of the Soviet Union were begun by

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 13

All of the following occurred in response to glasnost EXCEPT

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The privatization of small businesses

Question 14

The purpose of perestroika was to

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revive the Soviet economy

Question 15

The end result of the ugust coup attempt was to increase the power of

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Boris Yeltsin

Question 16

Members of the commonwealth of independent states, or CIS, had all formerly been

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Part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Question 17

Yeltsin’s shock therapy plan required the Russian government to

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dramatically reduce its involvement in the economy

Question 18

After the communist party and his nation lost power, Lech Walesa became the first freely elected leader of

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Poland

Question 19

Although the group known as solidarity eventually obtained wide public support and political power, it began as simply an organization of

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workers

Question 20

Some European nations were hesitant to support the reunification of Germany because of fears that it would

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attempt to dominate Europe

Question 21

Vaclav Havel was elected president of

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Czechoslovakia

Question 22

Yugoslavia was led from 1945 to 1980 by

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Josip Tito

Question 23

The brutal policy of ethnic cleansing was most widely used against

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Bosnian Muslims

Question 24

The main purpose of the Cultural Revolution was to

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preserve revolutionary Communist values

Question 25

The chinese premier who made the first overtures toward establishing a more open relationship with the West was

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Zhou Enlai

Question 26

The program that Deng Xiaoping embraced and referred to as the "second revolution" included the goals of the

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Four modernizations

Question 27

The students who were killed in Tiananmen Square were protesting the Chinese governments

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Lack of political freedom

Question 28

The government's response to the protest in Tiananmen Square resulted in all of the following except the

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Disruption of China's economic progress

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Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping were all

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participants in the war between Communists and Nationalists

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NASA and the European space agency cooperated in the launch of

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The Hubble Space Telescope

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The Internet was originally developed for use in

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Scientific research

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The term "genetic engineering" refers to

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modifying the hereditary units in an organism

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The successful cloning of an organism would, by definition, result in a new organism that was

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genetically identical to the original

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The "green revolution" was an effort to

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produce food more efficiently

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A developed nation is usually LOWER than an emerging nation with respect to

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Political instability

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In the Gulf War, some 39 allied nations fought against the nation of

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Iraq

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The term "global economy" refers to financial interactions that

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cross international borders

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The major cause of damage to the atmosphere's ozone layer is caused by

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chlorofluorocarbons

Question 39

A nation that opposed the principles of free trade would

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establish import taxes

Question 40

A multinational corporation is one that

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operates in a number of countries

Question 41

The purpose of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty can be found in its name, in which proliferation refers to the

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spread of something

Question 42

WHose traditional homeland crosses the borders of Turkey, Iran and Iraq

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Kurds

Question 43

What event do you think prompted the UN to issue the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

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The holocaust in Europe

Question 44

Which world region has suffered the most from AIDS epidemic

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Sub Saharan Africa

Question 45

Push factors of migration include lack of food due to drought, natural disasters, and

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Political oppression

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The major goal of radical religions and cultural terrorist groups is the destruction of

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What they consider to be forces of evil

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Why do government officials find the use of chemical and biological agents in terrorist attacks particularly worrisome

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Because biochemical agents are relatively easy to acquire

Question 48

Terrorism that involves politically motivated attacks on information systems known as

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Cyberterrorism

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Osama Bin Laden used mountain hideouts in Afghanistan as a base of operations for his global network of terrorists known as

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al Qaeda

Question 50

One criticism leveled at the USA Patriot Act is that it

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allows the government to infringe on people's civil rights

Question 51

The cultural trait LEAST likely to be significantly affected by popular culture is

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Religious beliefs

Question 52

the product is most likely to be found in an American household is

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A television

Question 53

English is referred to as the "premier international language" because

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it is the most widespread of any language

Question 54

The definition of Materialism, as the word is used in this chapter, is the

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mindset of placing a high value on acquiring material possessions

Question 55

What methods might a country use to ensure that global popular culture does not overwhelm its national culture and traditions

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all of the above