Exam 3 Flashcards
(47 cards)
How did the emergence of Germany as a new nation-state affect the European political scene after 1870?
Germany’s arrival disrupted the established order
Which of the following was a factor in causing the great depression
Speculation on the stock market
Which of the following was a distinctive and central feature of the German expression of fascism?
An insistence on a racial revolution
What effect did WW2 have on communism?
It enabled communist parties in Eastern Europe and China to assume power
In contrast to what transpired during WW1, Germany during WW2 was able to,
conquer France quickly
What effect did the U.S Marshall Plan have on European economies?
It promoted economic growth and widespread prosperity in Western Europe
Which of the following characterized European and American culture in the 1920s?
A new consumerism
Which of the following represents a response among many Latin American countries to the global repercussions of the Great Depression?
Import substitution industrialization
Which of the following appealed to fascist?
Nationalism
Which of the following resulted from Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor?
The wars in Asia and Europe merged into a single global war
Which of the following committed the U.S to the defense of Europe against the Soviet Union after WW2?
The NATO
Which of the following contributed to Western European recovery after the devastation of WW2?
The ability of Western European countries to integrate their economies
What effect did the Bretton Woods system have on globalization after WW2?
It established rules for commercial and financial dealings among major capitalist countries
Beginning in the 1960s, which of the following was identified as key issue in Western feminism by women of color?
Ending racism and poverty
Which of the following characterizes the response of religious fundamentalism to global modernity?
A selective rejection of certain aspects of modernity
Which of the following was a more central issue in environmental movements in developing countries in the industrial West?
Securing food supplies
Which of the following opposed neoliberal globalization and offered an alternative approach expressed in the slogan? Another world is possible?
World social forum
Which of the following issues was more central to women’s movement in the Global South than in the industrial West?
Economic survival
Which of the following describes the relationship between the world;s religions and modernity, science, and globalization since 1945?
Religion offered a means to oppose elements of a secular and global modernity
What dot he Gulen movement in Turkey and the Amman Message issued in Jordan in 2005 share in common?
Both sought to encourage cross-cultural and inter-religious dialogue
Describing the current era since the Industrial revolution as the Anthropocene Era calls attention to the
lasting impact of human activity on the planet
What did nineteenth-century strands of environmentalism share in common?
None of them had a mass following
Which movement in the world today has come to symbolize? One world thinking?
Global environmentalism
In contrast to the first decolonization of the Americas in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the struggles for independence in Africa, Asia, and Oceania in the second half of the twentieth century
affirmed the vitality of precolonial cultures