Deck 8: Great Issues in Contemporary Global Politics

Question 1

Which group of theorists is most concerned about China's growing economic and military capabilities?

A) Realists.
B) Liberals.
C) Constructivists.
D) Feminists.

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which group is most likely to focus on China's changing identity from Marxist purity to an increasingly globalized and capitalist society?

A) Realists.
B) Liberals.
C) Constructivists.
D) Marxists.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What event triggered the beginning of US-Chinese engagement?

A) President Nixon's visit to China.
B) Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms.
C) China's acquisition of nuclear weapons.
D) The Sino-Soviet split.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

To what does Beijing's "one-China" policy refer?

A) Taiwan is part of China.
B) The return of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule.
C) The Communist Chinese representative in the UN should be the sole representative of China in that organization.
D) No division between rural and urban China will be permitted.

Question 5

Which of the following is not a US-Chinese disagreement?

A) China's military modernization.
B) US-Chinese competition over scarce energy resources.
C) China's territorial claims along its Amur River border.
D) Human rights in China.

Question 6

What policy toward China did President Clinton articulate in 1997?

A) "Issue linkage."
B) "Constructive engagement."
C) "Prudential containment."
D) "Peaceful co-existence."

Question 7

Which of the following is not a provision of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty?

A) No nuclear power is to transfer nuclear weapons technology to non-nuclear states.
B) The UN Security Council is to inspect nuclear facilities to prevent cheating.
C) Nuclear weapons states are to begin nuclear disarmament.
D) No non-nuclear-armed-state is to develop additional nuclear weapons technology.

Question 8

What was the Joint Comprehensive Plan for Action (2015)?

A) An agreement with Iran to cease its efforts to acquire nuclear-weapons technology.
B) A plan to assist Taiwan if it were invaded by China.
C) An agreement to allow Hong Kong to retain its British legal system.
D) One of the agreements broken by North Korea regarding that country's testing of nuclear weapons.

Question 9

What is the central institution in the nuclear nonproliferation regime?

A) The Atomic Energy Commission.
B) The Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
C) The International Atomic Energy Agency.
D) The UN Security Council.

Question 10

Which of the following is not a reason why the spread of nuclear weapons to additional countries is dangerous?

A) Countries that want nuclear weapons are aggressive opponents of the status quo.
B) More fingers on more triggers creates a probability of a nuclear accident.
C) Countries that want nuclear weapons are often involved in regional quarrels that threaten war.
D) The acquisition of nuclear weapons by some countries creates incentives for others to obtain similar weapons.

Question 11

What is Falun Gong?

A) The name of China's current economic policy.
B) A spiritual movement that China regards as a cult.
C) A Chinese political prisoner whose case has been taken up by the US government.
D) A group of Chinese pro-democracy advocates who have been jailed.

Question 12

What country does China regard as vital in its Silk Road strategy?

A) India.
B) Venezuela.
C) Iran.
D) Iraq.

Question 13

Who is the Dalai Lama?

A) Egypt's Coptic Christian leader.
B) China's minister of defense.
C) Shia Islam's leading religious scholar.
D) Tibet's spiritual leader.

Question 14

Who brought an end to the Jewish Biblical state?

A) The Assyrians.
B) The Romans.
C) The Babylonians.
D) The Sumerians.

Question 15

Where has there been a Saudi-led coalition to fight insurgencies by ethnic Houthis and an affiliate of Al Qaeda?

A) Yemen.
B) Iraq.
C) Syria.
D) Bahrain.

Question 16

With what ideological movement was Theodore Herzl associated?

A) Socialism.
B) Zionism.
C) Assimilation.
D) Fundamentalism.

Question 17

What was the Balfour Declaration?

A) An expression of British support for an independent Jewish state.
B) A guarantee of an independent Arab state under Emir Faisal.
C) The surrender of the British Mandate in Palestine.
D) America's commitment to a two-state solution for Palestine.

Question 18

What event created a dramatic increase in Jewish immigration into Palestine?

A) The defeat of Germany in World War II.
B) The Holocaust.
C) The beginning of the Cold War in Europe.
D) The Nuremberg trials.

Question 19

Who was Israel's first president?

A) Menachem Begin.
B) David Ben-Gurion.
C) Golda Meir.
D) Chaim Weizmann.

Question 20

What happened following the United Nation's 1947 recommendation for partitioning Palestine between Jewish and Arab Palestinian residents of the area?

A) The plan was accepted by both groups.
B) The plan was rejected by both groups.
C) The plan was rejected by Jewish leaders.
D) The plan was rejected by Arab leaders.

Question 21

What three countries invaded Egypt in 1956?

A) Israel, Germany, and the United States.
B) Israel, France, and Great Britain.
C) Israel, France, and the United States.
D) Israel, Great Britain, and Germany.

Question 22

Who was Egypt's leader during the 1956 Suez War?

A) Hosni Mubarek.
B) Gamel Abdel Nasser.
C) Anwar Sadat.
D) Nuri al-Maliki.

Question 23

In which war did Israel unify all of the city of Jerusalem?

A) War of Independence.
B) Suez War.
C) Six Day War.
D) Yom Kippur War.

Question 24

What region of Syria does Israel still occupy?

A) Golan Heights.
B) Gaza Strip.
C) West Bank.
D) Sinai Desert.

Question 25

What was the gist of UN Resolution 242?

A) Israel should immediately withdraw from all territories seized in the Six Day War.
B) Democracy should be established in Palestine.
C) Israel should withdraw from territories seized in the Six Day War in return for peace.
D) Israel and Palestine should accept the 1947 UN partition plan.

Question 26

What Palestinian organization did Yasser Arafat found?

A) Hamas.
B) The Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
C) Al Fatah.
D) Black September.

Question 27

What is the right-wing Israeli political party that opposes returning any of the occupied territories to the Palestinians?

A) Labor Party.
B) Likud Party.
C) Kadima Party.
D) Meretz-Yachad Party.

Question 28

What two areas will constitute most of any future Palestinian state?

A) Gaza and the West Bank.
B) Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.
C) Sinai Peninsula and the West Bank.
D) Jerusalem and Gaza.

Question 29

Which of Israel's wars threatened a direct conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union?

A) War of Independence.
B) Suez War.
C) Six Day War.
D) Yom Kippur War.

Question 30

What was a key consequence of the Yom Kippur War?

A) Egypt severed its relationship with the USSR.
B) Israel's surrender of the West Bank.
C) Establishment of US bases in Israel.
D) Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon.

Question 31

Who was the first Arab leader to make a public visit to Israel?

A) King Hussein of Jordan.
B) Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
C) Hafez al-Assad of Syria.
D) King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.

Question 32

What was the tangible outcome of the 1978 Camp David Accords?

A) The division of Jerusalem with half returned to Jordan and half kept by Israel.
B) A peace treaty between Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon.
C) A peace treaty between Israel and Egypt and Israel return of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.
D) Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

Question 33

What was the target of Israel's "Operation Peace for Galilee"?

A) Syria.
B) Egypt.
C) Jordan.
D) Lebanon.

Question 34

What Shia terrorist group occupies southern Lebanon?

A) Islamic Jihad.
B) Hezbollah.
C) Al Qaeda.
D) Hamas.

Question 35

What were the "intifadas"?

A) Violent protests by Palestinians against Israeli occupation.
B) Suicide bombers who penetrated Israel's security barrier.
C) Teachers of Islam at madrasas (Islamic schools).
D) The full body coverings worn by devoted Islamic women.

Question 36

Which of the following was part of the Oslo Accords?

A) Declaration of an independent Palestinian state.
B) Palestinian self-rule in Gaza and much of the West Bank.
C) The unification of Jerusalem under international control.
D) Establishment of normal diplomatic relations between Egypt and Israel.

Question 37

What Israeli prime minister was assassinated by an Israeli extremist after concluding the Oslo Accords?

A) Menachem Begin.
B) Ehud Barak.
C) Itzak Rabin.
D) Binyamin Netanyahu.

Question 38

What was the "road map" to peace proposed by President George W. Bush?

A) A series of steps that Israel and the Palestinians would take to settle their differences.
B) A final territorial demarcation of Israel and Palestine.
C) A series of Israeli-Palestinian meetings to be chaired by the American president.
D) Progressive stages of a Palestinian-Israeli disarmament agreement.

Question 39

Who promoted Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip?

A) Ehud Olmert.
B) Ehud Barak.
C) Ariel Sharon.
D) Shimon Peres.

Question 40

When did the growth of militant Islam come to the attention of Americans?

A) After the overthrow of Iran's shah.
B) After the destruction of New York's World Trade Center.
C) After the assassination of Egypt's Anwar Sadat.
D) After the US invasion of Iraq.

Question 41

Where was Mohamed Morsi elected president?

A) Syria.
B) Egypt.
C) Libya.
D) Iran.

Question 42

What event mobilized Muslims to declare a jihad in Afghanistan?

A) The presence of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
B) The American invasion of Afghanistan.
C) The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
D) The defeat of British forces in Afghanistan.

Question 43

What Islamic country experienced an unsuccessful military coup in 2016?

A) Tunisia.
B) Turkey.
C) Indonesia.
D) Iraq.

Question 44

Which of the following governments used chemical weapons against its own citizens?

A) Libya.
B) Somalia.
C) Iran.
D) Syria.

Question 45

Where did the Islamic State (ISIS) establish its territorial caliphate in 2014?

A) Libya and Tunisia.
B) Iraq and Syria.
C) Syria and Jordan.
D) Bahrain and Yemen.

Question 46

With what country did Iraq fight a bloody war that ended in 1988?

A) Syria.
B) Israel.
C) Turkey.
D) Iran.

Question 47

What country did Saddam Hussein invade in 1990?

A) Syria.
B) Kuwait.
C) Israel.
D) Lebanon.

Question 48

What three countries did President George W. Bush describe collectively as the "axis of evil"?

A) China, North Korea, and Iraq.
B) Russia, China, and North Korea.
C) Iran, China, and Iran.
D) Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.

Question 49

Who is Hassan Rouhani?

A) The leader of the Islamic State (ISIS) since 2013.
B) Iranian president in 2016.
C) Iraqi prime minister and leader of the country's Shia majority.
D) Commander of Hezbollah.

Question 50

What group of theorists would have deplored America's dismemberment of Iraq's army following the invasion of that country in 2003?

A) Realists.
B) Liberals.
C) Constructivists.
D) Marxists.