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

The Arab Spring of 2011 began in:

Much of the United States' success in Afghanistan in 2001 was due to the collapsed state of the country as a result of the war with Russia and much local hostility to the country's leaders and their lack of ability to restore the nation in the subsequent thirty years after the Soviet withdrawal.

One purpose used to justify the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 was the Iraqi program to develop weapons of mass destruction-primarily biological and nuclear-and the fear that such weapons would be given to terrorist groups.Although no such weapons were found,a similar threat from nuclear weapons remains present in:

Only after the 1980s did terrorist tactics become part of an organized and sectarian warfare.

How has globalization promoted human rights?

Many young Palestinians turned away from the secular PLO to radical Islam in anger over their elders' failures to provoke revolution and end the continued stalemate in Israel.

Many of the oil-producing countries of the world organized themselves into a cartel to regulate the production and the pricing of oil: this cartel is called the:

Since 1987,Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank have been carrying on a low-level fight against the Israeli security forces.This is known as the:

The Islamic cleric,the Ayatollah _________,stepped into the 1979 power vacuum in Iran left by the resignation of the Western-friendly shah.

In 1979,militant students stormed the American embassy in Iran,taking fifty-two hostages.The deaths of the hostages during the negotiation process resulted in a policy on non-negotiation for all future hostage situations.

One of the first Islamic groups in the 1970s to profess anticolonial politics mixed with works of charity and violently fundamentalist Islam beliefs was:

The post-World War II arrangements reached by the Allies at Bretton Woods steadily eroded in the late 1960s and effectively ended in 1971,when the United States:

In what ways did oil give power to the former colonies of the West?

Although many countries suffered from declining populations in the late twentieth century,the country that took a very sudden and potentially dangerous move in this direction was:

By the 1970s,the driving force in criticism and defiance of autocratic Arab regimes was: