Exam 31: A Fragile Capitalist-Democratic World Order, 1991-2014

With UN backing, President George H. W. Bush ordered US troops to evict the Iraqis from ___________ in Operation Desert Storm.

During the 1990s, the United States economy experienced all of the following except:

In the United States anger grew out of financial panic in the economic crisis of 2008. Resentment of corporate greed and federal economic stimulus packages created the new political party, ___________ made up mostly of white, middle-class, older, and evangelical Christian voters.

The terrorist organization known as ISIS is led by a former al-Qaeda operative from _______.

In March 2003, President George W. Bush espoused the unilateralist cause and ordered a preemptive invasion without UN Security Council backing against ______________, declaring that it had become a regional threat.

Former KGB officer _____________________ was president of Russia 2000-2008 and became president again after 2012.

The recession of 2008-2011 began with

Up until the early 1990s, although all 54 African countries were officially "nations" with seats in the United Nations, none was either a functionally constitutional or ethnically uniform nation except:

______ has refused to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol benchmarks for the reduction of greenhouse gases.

Despite the stated aims of the invasion of ________ in March 2003, no weapons of mass destruction were discovered in that country.

Only two centuries after its beginnings, the pattern of capitalist modernity characterized by market exchange and consumerism encompassed roughly _______% of the world's population.

Although US troops invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, searching for Osama bin Laden, he was assassinated in May _______.

During the 1990s, there were some 190 sovereign countries in the world, forming a(n) _________________.

Among signs of a major retreat from post-Cold War internationalist political, economic, and diplomatic trends is ________.

Slobodan Milosevic was an ethnic ______.

Russian president Vladimir Putin took advantage of protests against Ukraine's Viktor Yanukovych to annex ________ in March 2014.

In the past decade, Vladimir Putin has done all of the following except:

During the civil war in _______ in 1994, the ethnic majority Hutus massacred the Tutsi ethnic minority by the hundreds of thousands.

At the head of a coalition force and with United Nations backing, the US evicted the Iraqis from _____ in Operation Desert Storm (1991).

Until his death in 2013, _______'s President Hugo Chávez was alone in mainland Latin America in his adherence to state socialism, encountering periodic middle-class resistance.