Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Lebanon 
B)  Afghanistan 
C)  Turkey 
D)  Kuwait

Question 2

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

Accepted Answer

A)  A reduction in the unemployment rate. 
B)  Dominance in multiple "high-tech" industries. 
C)  A sharp rise in the rate of inflation. 
D)  A balanced national budget.

Question 3

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  Green Party 
B)  Socialist Party 
C)  Federalist Party 
D)  Tea Party

Question 4

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Saudi Arabia 
B)  Iran 
C)  Afghanistan 
D)  Iraq

Question 5

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  Iraq 
B)  Afghanistan 
C)  Iran 
D)  Somalia

Question 6

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Vladimir Putin 
B)  Mikhail Gorbachev 
C)  Dmitry Medvedev 
D)  Boris Yeltsin

Question 7

The recession of 2008-2011 began with

Accepted Answer

A)  uncontrolled speculation about the expansion of the Internet 
B)  a general credit, credit card, and auto loan crisis 
C)  insolvency in the auto industry 
D)  the collapse of the housing market

Question 8

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:

Accepted Answer

A)  South Africa 
B)  Ghana 
C)  Morocco 
D)  Kenya

Question 9

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

Accepted Answer

A)  China 
B)  The United States 
C)  Russia 
D)  Denmark

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Afghanistan 
B)  Libya 
C)  Iraq 
D)  Syria

Question 11

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

Accepted Answer

A)  90 
B)  30 
C)  50 
D)  70

Question 12

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

Accepted Answer

A)  2003 
B)  2011 
C)  2008 
D)  2006

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Four-tier hierarchy 
B)  Three-tier hierarchy 
C)  Organized trade union 
D)  Coalition of democratic nations

Question 14

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

Accepted Answer

A)  the nomination of Hillary Clinton by the Democratic Party in the U.S. 
B)  Brexit 
C)  the loss of Marine Le Pen in France 
D)  Hillary Clinton's popular vote win in the American election

Question 15

Slobodan Milosevic was an ethnic ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  Croat 
B)  Albanian 
C)  Bosnian 
D)  Serb

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Donetsk 
B)  Lvov 
C)  Crimea 
D)  Moldova

Question 17

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Petitioned to dissolve itself and rejoin Sudan. 
B)  De-nationalized state enterprises and created a comprehensive market economy. 
C)  Sharply curtailed basic civil rights and restricted press freedoms. 
D)  Provoked former Soviet republics into conflicts with Russia.

Question 18

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Namibia 
B)  Somalia 
C)  Zaire 
D)  Rwanda

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

A)  Saudi Arabia 
B)  Iran 
C)  Turkey 
D)  Kuwait

Question 20

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.

Accepted Answer

A)  Argentina 
B)  Peru 
C)  Bolivia 
D)  Venezuela

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