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

During the economic prosperity of the 1980s in the Pacific Rim,many countries treated the creation of general economic wealth and prosperity as:

Globalization is not a new concept; it has merely reached a new stage.

In what ways were the September 11,2001,attacks on the United States the product of a new brand of terror born from globalization?

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.

At its most basic,globalization means:

"Globalization" and "internationalization" are not synonymous,as globalization can occur:

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Can historians predict the future by studying the past?

One of the greatest advancements in medical research in the late twentieth century was the: