history quiz

Question 1

gained power during the 1990’s & 2000’s in South America

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Communism & Cartels

Question 2

known for violence incited by drug lords & guerillas

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Colombia

Question 4

Contra freedom fighters were successful & Nicaragua had free elections in 1990

Answer 4

Nicaragua

Question 5

leader of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua

Answer 5

Daniel Ortega

Question 6

Communist revolutionaries of Nicaragua

Answer 6

Sandinistas

Question 7

longest war against guerillas (36 years)

Answer 7

Guatemala

Question 8

Eliminated trade barriers between Canada, America, & Mexico

Answer 8

NAFTA

Question 9

government of Mexico

Answer 9

Institutional Revolutionary Party

Question 10

Institutional Revolutionary Party

Answer 10

Pierre Trudeau

Question 11

Canada’s 1st female Prime Minister

Answer 11

Kim Campbell

Question 12

Conservative Party Leader & new Prime Minister of Canada

Answer 12

Steven Harper

Question 13

democratic president after H.W. Bush

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bill Clinton

Question 14

coordinates world trade policies

Answer 14

WTO

Question 15

dictator of Haiti

Answer 15

Jean Bertrand Artist

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1st female secretary of state in US

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Madeleine Albright

Question 17

elected president & led the way in war on terrorism

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George W. Bush

Question 18

accounts for 45% of the world trade

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APEC (Age of Pacific Economic Cooperation)

Question 19

military government of Japan; helped with World War II

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Douglas McArthur

Question 20

1st democratically elected president of China

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Lee Tung-Hui

Question 21

1st civilian president of South Korea

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Kim Young Sam

Question 22

president of the Philippines until he was forced to flee

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Ferdinand E. Marcos

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Philippines
Gained independence on

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July 4, 1946

Question 24

Indonesia’s 1st president

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Sukarno

Question 25

replaced Sukarno & sought assistance from the West

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Suharto

Question 26

Land of the Free”; the only South East Asian country to never have been ruled by a Western power

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Muang Thai

Question 27

1st nation to place itself under UN jurisdiction

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Australia:

Question 28

Prime Minister of India, who focused on bettering India’s domestic condition & standing worldwide

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singh

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an ethnic group of nomadic Muslims

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kurds

Question 30

Palestine occupied territories in Israel

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Intifada

Question 31

“Land for Peace”

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Oslo Accords

Question 32

conservative Prime Minister of Israel

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Benjamin Netanyahu

Question 33

peace between Israel & Palestine

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Hebron Accords

Question 34

IDF pursuit of Yassir Arafat

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Operation Defensive Shield

Question 35

Israeli reoccupation of territory previously ceded to Palestine

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Operation Determined Path

Question 36

2 state system for Israel & Palestine

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Road Map for Peace

Question 37

hurricane that struck the U.S. in 2005; one of the greatest natural disasters America has ever experienced

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Hurricane Katrina

Question 38

the linking together of military & university computers

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ARPANET

Question 39

Radio Frequency Identification chips; tracking system associated with GPS technology

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RFID

Question 40

largest & most intricate global project undertaken

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International Space Station (ISS)

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1st Chinese Taikonaut in space

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Yang Liwei

Question 42

the belief that order in the universe is not the result of random combinations but the design of an intelligent being

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Intelligent Design (ID)

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the idea that come biological systems are irreducible complexity (Michael Behe)

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Irreducible Complexity

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the killing of the weak or infirmed; 1st legalized in Holland

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Euthanasia

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The study of moral implications & applications of biological research

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Bioethics

Question 46

idea of God-given absolute standard of ethics

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Metanarrative

Question 47

animals & plants are on the same level of importance as humans

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Modern Environmentalism

Question 48

belief that the general temperature of the earth & its oceans is being warmed due to the pollution & greenhouse gases

Answer 48

Global Warming

Question 49

required nations to reduce greenhouse emissions to baselines used during the 1900s (“carbon credits”)

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Kyoto Protocol

Question 50

a plan for one-world government rather than individual freedom

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Globalism