Chapter 27 Flashcards
(135 cards)
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Who was the dictator of Iraq who invaded Kuwait?
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Saddam Hussein
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What was the tiny, oil-rich kingdom that was invaded by Iraq?
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Kuwait
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Who was the US president who began preparations to protect the other Arab nations, repulse the Iraqi threat, and liberate Kuwait?
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George H. W. Bush
4
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What was the operation in which UN forces took the offensive and began round-the-clock bombing of Iraqi troop positions and headquarters?
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Operation Desert Strom
5
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When did Operation Desert Storm take place?
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1991
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Who was placed in command of Operation Desert Storm?
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General Colin Powel
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Who was appointed to lead the troops into combat in Operation Desert Storm?
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General Norman Schwarzkopf
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What is a violent act committed by a person or group that is meant to make others cower in fear, usually for political or religious purposes?
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terrorism
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Who was the Saudi-born Islamic terrorist who was the mastermind behind the 9-11 attack?
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Osama bin Laden
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What was the terrorist network of Islamic fundamentalists?
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al-Queda
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Who was the American president who declared a “war on terrorism” within days of the 9-11 attack?
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George W. Bush
12
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What was the fanatical Islamic government in Afghanistan?
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Taliban
13
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What did George W. Bush call the nations of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea?
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the Axis of Evil
14
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When did Bush order the bombing of Iraq?
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March 19, 2003
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What are pockets of Muslim terrorist groups?
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insurgents
16
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Who supported the annihilation of Israel?
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
17
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Who was the moderate Iranian president under whom Iran seemed to show signs of moderation?
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Mohammed Katami
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Who was the British Prime Minister who immediately supported the United States in denouncing the terrorist attacks and in the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq?
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Tony Blair
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What was Pakistan’s presidents who sides quickly with the United States?
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Pervez Musharraf
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Who had earlier been Pakistan’s first female prime minister?
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Benazir Bhutto
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What was the treaty that set in motion a plan to form a European central bank with a single, unified currency for all the members of the European Economic Economy?
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Maastricht Treaty
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What did the EEC become known as?
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EU (European Union)
23
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Who was the longest-ruling Labor prime minister of Great Britain?
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Tony Blaire
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Who succeeded Blaire as prime minister?
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Gordon Brown
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Who was the former British prime minister who opposed the EU?
Margaret Thatcher
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What is a 31-mile-long tunnel that links Britain and France?
Chunnel
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Who had an unprecedented 14-year reign in France?
François Miterand
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Who was the representative of a conservative party coalition in France who succeeded Miterand?
Jacques Chirac
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Who was elected president of France and was noted for his conservative and pro-American views?
Nickolas Sarkozy
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Who was the longest-ruling leader in Germany's postwar history?
Helmut Kohl
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Who was the first woman chancellor in Germany's history?
Angela Merkel
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What was a coalition of private industry and government?
managed capitalism
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What was the Muslim capital of Bosnia where a three-way civil war broke out among Bosnian Serbs, Croats, and Muslims?
Sarajevo
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What resulted in NATO troops being sent to Bosnia as "peace-keepers"?
Dayton Peace Accords
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What was the country whose rise to nationhood is considered the clix in the gradual breakup of the former country of Yugoslavia?
Kosovo
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Who was the Russian president who crushed all opposition and sent troops to Chechnya?
Boris Yeltsin
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What was the distant republic in the Caucasus Mountains where Russian troops were sent to crush and independence movement?
Chechnya
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Who was appointed by Yeltsin to be his successor?
Vladimir Putin
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Who was selected by Putin to be his successor?
Dmitri Medvedev
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Who was the leader of China who pursued his plan of the Four Modernizations?
Deng Xiaoping
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What was the plan to improve China's industry, military, agriculture, and technology?
Four Modernizations
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Who was the Communist dictator of North Koreas after World War II?
Kim Il-sung
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Who was Kim Il-sung's successor?
Kim Jong-Il
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What was the first nation with a Communist dynasty?
North Korea
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Who was Kim Jong-Il's successor?
Kim Jung-un
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What was the African nation that became independent of South Africa in 1990?
Namibia
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What was the Marxist terrorist group that was recognized as the official government of Namibia?
SWAPO
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What was the country in which civil war broke out between rival Muslim and Marxist terrorist groups?
Somalia
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What was the country along the West Coast of Africa that has had several civil wars?
Liberia
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Who was the first woman head of state in Africa?
Ruth Perry
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What is Africa's largest country?
Sudan
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What was the country in Africa where missionaries continued to thrive?
Zambia
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Who was the first black prime minister of South Africa?
Nelson Mandela
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Who was Fidel Castro's brother who took over as president of Cuba in 2006?
Raul Castro
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What country was the Dayton Peace Accords signed to keep peace in?
Bosnia
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What were the two countries in South America that experience a crisis of widespread violence and terrorism launched by drug lords and Marxist guerillas?
Colombia and Peru
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What was the country that was able to hold free elections due to the efforts of the Contra freedom fighters?
Nicaragua
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Who was the Communist dictator defeated in Nicaragua's free elections?
Daniel Ortega
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Who defeated Ortega in the free elections?
Violeta Barrios de Chamorro
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What country had the longest war against Communism?
Guatemala
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What was the treaty that was signed between Canada, the United States, and Mexico which states that most tariffs and other trade barriers among the three nations were eliminated?
NAFTA
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What was the government established by Marxist rebels that had ruled Mexico since 1929?
Institutional Revolutionary Party
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When did Canada achieve complete independence from Great Britain?
1982
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What is the second largest country in the world?
Canada
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Who was the prime minister of Canada under whom socialist prevailed?
Pierre Trudeaus
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Who was the first woman prime minister of Canada?
Kim Campbell
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Who was the prime minister of Canada who defeated Campbell in the 2006 election?
Stephen Harper
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Who was the president who proclaimed that the world was poised on the brink of what he called a "new world order"?
George H. W. Bush
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What was the treaty that created WTO?
GATT
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What was the organization that coordinated international trade policies?
WTO
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Who was the ruthless dictator who was supported by the UN in Haiti?
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Who was the first woman secretary of state?
Madeline Albright
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Who was the first black American president of the United States?
Barack Obama
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Who was the president who led the way to war against terrorism?
George W. Bush
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What are all of the nations directly bordering the Pacific Ocea called?
Pacific Rim
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What is the organization formed by nations in the Pacific Rim that accounts for 45% of the world's trade?
APEC
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Who led Japan into the modern age?
Mutsuhito
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Who became the military governor of Japan after World War II?
General Douglas MacArthur
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What did Japan boast to have, second only to the United States, by the 1980s?
Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
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Who was the first emperor to visit China in over 2000 years?
Akihito
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Who was the first democratically elected leader in Chinese history?
Lee Teng-hui
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What was the British colony that was returned to China?
Hong Kong
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Who was the first civilian president of South Korea since the early 1960s?
Kim Young Sam
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What did the Philippines become known as when it received its independence from the United States?
Republic of the Philippines
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When did the Philippines gain its independence?
July 4,1946
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Who was president from 1965 to 1986 in the Philippines until he fled the country after losing political and military support?
Ferdinand E. Marcos
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Who was a political rival of Marcos who was assassinated?
Benigno Aquino
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What was Indonesia called after it was made a Dutch colony?
Netherlands East Indies
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What was Aquino's widow who ran for president But contested the results after she lost and became president after Marco's fled?
Corazon Aquino
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Who was Indonesia's first president who governed as a dictator under a system which he called “ guided democracy”?
Achmed Sukaro
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Who put down the communist revolt in Indonesia and replaced Sukano as president?
Suharto
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What is a tiny country at the southernmost tip of the Malay peninsula?
Singapore
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What did Malaya, Singapore, and parts of Borneo unite to form?
Federation of Malaysia
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What is the only SE Asian country never to have been ruled by a western power?
Thailand
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What was made into a province of British India in the 1880s?
Myanmar
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What is the official name for Thailand?
Muang Thai
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What was Myanmar formerly known as?
Borneo
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What did the Burma Socialist Program Party rename the country?
Union of Myanmar
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What was the first nation to place itself under UN jurisdiction regarding internal matters?
Australia
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Who has been given the credit for the nation of India's economic success?
Manmohan Singh
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What was an ethnic group of nomadic Muslims?
kurds
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What were violent Palestinian demonstrations in the occupied territories of Israel called?
intifada
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What was the negotiation in which Israel agreed to trade “land for peace”?
Oslo Accords
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What was the West Bank city that became part of a new Palestinian state represented by a ruling body?
Jericho
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Who was the Israeli leader assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv?
Yitzhak Rabin
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Who was the Israeli Prime Minister who agreed to the terms of the Oslo Accords?
Yitzhak Rabin
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Who was a member of the conservative Likud party who was Prime Minister, supporting controlled Jewish settlement of the West Bank?
Benjamin Netanyahu
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What was negotiated between Israel and the Palestinian Authority in which Israel agreed to a phased troop withdrawal for Hebron?
Hebron accords
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What was a series of attacks against the terrorists with the goal of reducing the terrorist threat in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank and isolating Arafat at his compound?
Operation Defensive Shield
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What was an even more intense operation to put pressure on the Palestinians to renounce terrorism?
Operation Determined Path
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What called for the Palestinian Authority to stop cuddling terrorists, and in return Israel would concede to a “two state” solution that would consist of a Palestinian state that would coexist alongside Israel?
Roadmap for Peace
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Who was the president of the United States who announced his Roadmap for Peace?
President George W. Bush
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What was the hurricane that was one of the greatest natural disasters experienced by the United States?
Katrina
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What was the earthquake that hit Chinas Sinchuan Province killing at least 69,000 people?
Wenchuan earthquake
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The point allowed for a message to be routed in another direction should the initial communication channel be blocked?
packet-switching
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What was the system that later became known as the Internet?
ARPANET
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What represents the degree that different kinds of technology can be integrated into?
Cellular phone
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What is the largest and most intricate global project to be undertaken to this date?
International Space Station
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What is one of the various precision tracking systems associated with GPS technology that are used as tracking devices on patients and expensive equipment?
RFID chips
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What was the American space shuttle that disintegrated as reentered the Earth's atmosphere, causing a setback in America's space program?
Columbia
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Who was the Chinese astronaut who blasted off from the Gobi desert and orbited Earth for twenty-one hours?
Yang Liwei
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What is the belief that order in the universe is not the result of random combinations, but the design of an intelligent being, though not necessarily the God of the Bible?
Intelligent Design
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Who advanced irreductable complexity?
Michael Behe
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What is the idea that some biological systems are irreductively complex?
Irreducible complexity
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What was the organization that embraced the slogan “pro choice” which was issued as a means of population control?
Planned Parenthood
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What is the killing of unborn children?
Abortion
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What is the killing of the weak or infirmed?
Euthanasia
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What was the first nation to legalize euthanasia?
Holland
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What is the study of the moral implications and applications of biological research preceding the impact of new scientific changes on mankind and planet Earth?
Bioethics
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What is one of the most highly controversial topics in the area of bioethics?
Stem cell research
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What are those cells whose future type has not yet been determined?
Stem cells
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What is a God-given absolute standard of ethics?
metanarrative
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What is a pantheistic and evolutionist view that places animals and plants on the same level as humans?
Modern environmentalism
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What is the belief that the general temperature of the earth and its oceans is being warmed due to pollution and greenhouse gasses?
Global warming
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What was designed to require nations to use greenhouse emissions to baselines?
Kyoto Protocol
