Deck 24: D: Capitalism and Culture the Acceleration of Globalization Since 1945

Question 1

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

Sweeping series of reforms instituted by communist leader Alexander Dubcek in Czechoslovakia in 1968;the movement was subsequently crushed by a Soviet invasion.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Answer 1

Prague Spring

Question 2

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

Huge global businesses that produce goods or deliver services simultaneously in many countries.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Answer 2

transnational corporations

Question 3

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

Growing disparity between industrialized and developing countries that appears to be exacerbated by current world trade practices.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Answer 3

North/South gap

Question 4

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

Major international movement that protests the development of the global economy on the grounds that it makes the rich richer and keeps poor regions in poverty while exploiting their labor and environments;the movement burst onto the world stage in 1999 with massive protests at a meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Question 5

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

Environmental activist (1907-1964)whose book Silent Spring (1962)is credited with launching the American environmental movement.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Question 6

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

Women's rights movement that revived in the 1960s with a different agenda than earlier women's suffrage movements;the movement's proponents demanded equal rights for women in employment and education,women's right to control their own bodies,and the end of patriarchal domination.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Question 7

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

An approach to the world economy,developed in the 1970s,that favored reduced tariffs,the free movement of capital,a mobile and temporary workforce,the privatization of industry,and the curtailing of government efforts to regulate the economy.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Question 8

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

Occurring within all the major world religions,it is a self-proclaimed return to the basics of a religion and is marked by a militant piety and exclusivism.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Question 9

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

Large number of movements that promote a return to strict adherence to the Quran and the sharia in opposition to key elements of Western culture.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Question 10

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

International organization of fundamentalist Islamic militants,headed by Osama bin Laden.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Question 11

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

Fundamentalist Hindu movement that became politically important in India in the 1980s by advocating a distinct Hindu identity and decrying government efforts to accommodate other faith groups.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Question 12

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

He was an Argentine-born revolutionary (1928-1967)who waged guerrilla war in an effort to remedy Latin America's and Africa's social and economic ills.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Question 13

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

The quickening of global economic transactions after World War II,which resulted in total world output returning to the levels established before the Great Depression and moving beyond them.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Question 14

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

The leader of al-Qaeda (1957-2011),a wealthy Saudi who turned to militant fundamentalism.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Question 15

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

Twentieth-century movement to preserve the natural world in the face of spiraling human ability to alter the world environment.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson

Question 16

Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example.

A worldwide scientific consensus that the increased burning of fossil fuels and the loss of trees have begun to change the earth's atmosphere artificially and significantly,causing climate change and leading to possibly catastrophic results if the problem is not addressed.

A)neoliberalism
B)reglobalization
C)transnational corporations
D)North/South gap
E)anti-globalization
F)Prague Spring
G)Che Guevara
H)second-wave feminism
I)fundamentalism
J)Hindutva
K)Islamic renewal
L)Osama bin Laden
M)al-Qaeda
N)global warming
O)environmentalism
P)Rachel Carson