Exam 29: A World without Walls: Globalization and the West

At its most basic,globalization means:

Rwanda was renamed the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to distance itself from the atrocities committed in that country between the Hutus and the Tutsis.

In 1990,Saddam Hussein attempted to restore Iraq's influence and prestige by invading its neighbor:

In the postcolonial world of the 1960s,many in the Islamic world,led by the cleric _________,laid the blame for the moral failure of the Arab world at the feet of the West and centuries of colonial contact.

Al Qaeda was created by the leaders of the Mujahidin.

The United States was one of several Western powers to support and aid Saddam Hussein in the war against Iran.

During the 1980s,the countries of the Pacific Rim that had developed robust economies and that appeared to have great staying power earned the collective nickname of:

By the turn of the twenty-first century,the largest heavy industrial producer in the world was:

Egypt was denounced by Qutb as being morally corrupt due to its high population of Jews,illustrating that anti-Semitism,even in the 1960s,was far from absent in the Western world.

In reality,very little has changed in the last century for the people of former colonies.

By the late twentieth century,electronic devices had revolutionized the lives of individuals,but none to the degree of:

In 1979,twenty-five years after he came to power in a coup,Iran's _________ simply retired from public life and left his country in a power vacuum.

The decisive difference between the "early" terrorist organizations of the 1960s and those that developed in the 1980s and 1990s was that the newer ones were:

The recent global economic crisis has sparked new debates in the past few years that have centered on a belief in:

Demographic studies indicate that the world's population is:

Although South Africa made a relatively easy transition from apartheid to majority rule,other African countries had a much bloodier path to follow.For example,in the former Belgian colony of _________,over 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by the Hutus in a brutal display of ethnic violence.

The reclamation of Hong Kong from the British in 1997 was part of a plan to establish semicapitalist commercial zones around major cities in China.

A good example of the early kind of terrorist organizations formed in the 1960s would be:

On September 11,2001,one of the new terrorist organizations,_________,carried out an attack on the symbolic seat of "globalization," the United States.

During the 1990s in what many observers dubbed "Africa's world war," a number of countries intervened in _________ in order to gain access to natural resources as well as to settle ethnic scores.