Deck 30: Global Challenges: the War Against Terror and the Uncertainties of a New Age

Question 1

What best describes "AfD"?

A)an economic group pushing for the acceptance of the euro
B)Alternative Germany,a far-right,anti-immigration party in Germany
C)a Hungarian special police force
D)an activist group lobbying for a reduction in nuclear weapons arsenals
E)a joint terrorism taskforce

Answer 1

Alternative Germany,a far-right,anti-immigration party in Germany

Question 2

Which nation elected the first populist government in Western Europe in 2018?

A)Spain
B)Italy
C)Germany
D)France
E)the United Kingdom

Answer 2

Italy

Question 3

In what nation did Recep Erdoğan institute repressive measures meant to ensure he held absolute power after a failed coup d'état by the army?

A)Hungary
B)Russia
C)Romania
D)Poland
E)Turkey

Answer 3

Turkey

Question 4

Who led the campaign for a unified Europe that could compete with U.S.and Japanese economic strength as president of the European Commission in the mid-1980s?

A)Helmut Kohl
B)Jacques Chirac
C)Jacques Delors
D)Richard von Weizsäcker
E)Margaret Thatcher

Question 5

What was the goal of the founders of the European Community in 1967?

A)to create a stronger military alliance against the Soviet Union
B)to create a common currency for all of Western Europe
C)to bring about European economic integration
D)to remove border controls on the European continent
E)to create closer ties with the United States

Question 6

Whom have some European populist leaders convinced that voters are the cause of all of their nations' problems?

A)the leaders of the Catholic Church
B)Russian agents
C)immigrants
D)nationalist politicians
E)industrialists

Question 7

What was the name of the 1992 treaty that transformed the European Community into the European Union?

A)the Treaty of Schengen
B)the Treaty of Brussels
C)the Treaty of Westphalia
D)the Treaty of Maastricht
E)the Treaty of Ghent

Question 8

Which Algerian War veteran,accused of using torture in that conflict,became the leader of the far-right National Front in France?

A)Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
B)François Mitterand
C)Raymond Barre
D)Jean-Marie Le Pen
E)Lionel Jospin

Question 9

What was the name of the common currency introduced by the European Union in 2002?

A)euro
B)franc
C)mark
D)peseta
E)ruble

Question 10

What was the right-wing nationalist party that came to power in Poland whose policies risked compromising the independence of the judiciary?

A)Blood and Iron
B)Law and Justice
C)Strength and Honor
D)Blood and Soil
E)Life and Freedom

Question 11

Which European nation supported the United States' invasion of Iraq in 2003?

A)France
B)Germany
C)Russia
D)Spain
E)Britain

Question 12

Which European nation experienced rioting in October and November of 2005 as a result of the isolation and discrimination felt by North and West African Muslim youth?

A)Belgium
B)France
C)Germany
D)Spain
E)United Kingdom

Question 13

In 2015,nearly every nation in the world signed an agreement to try to prevent further climate change in which European capital?

A)Brussels
B)Berlin
C)London
D)Paris
E)Rome

Question 14

Beginning in the late 1960s,what was a major factor in the increasing percentage of the foreign-born workforce across Europe?

A)refugees coming to Europe from wars in Central Africa
B)refugees from communism in Eastern Europe
C)guest-worker programs created to make up for labor shortfalls
D)emigration of Europeans to North America
E)emigration of Europeans to South and East Asia

Question 15

What was the Spanish government's response to Catalonians voting for independence in 2017?

A)It agreed to allow Catalonia to leave if it would join a new Spanish commonwealth.
B)It kicked Catalonia out of Spain before independence could be approved.
C)It imposed direct control on Catalonia from Madrid.
D)It demanded a new election on different terms.
E)It agreed to depose the Spanish king and abolish the monarchy.

Question 16

The anti-immigrant and anti-Semitic populist Viktor Orbán took control of which formerly communist nation,and has attempted to shape politics in surrounding nations as well?

A)Hungary
B)Slovenia
C)Slovakia
D)Poland
E)Moldova

Question 17

What does the term "Euro-skepticism" mean?

A)rejection of Europe's Christian culture
B)rejection of European separation from the rest of the world
C)rejection of the values of and participation in the European Union
D)rejection of national borders in favor of continent-wide integration
E)rejection of the euro as currency

Question 18

In 2015,the terrorist organization ISIS attacked the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo's headquarters,located in what European capital?

A)London
B)Madrid
C)Amsterdam
D)Brussels
E)Paris

Question 19

Who have been the primary targets of xenophobic politics in twenty-first-century Europe?

A)suspected Russian agents working for Vladimir Putin
B)American expatriates working in Europe
C)citizens of extra-European nations in which European troops are deployed
D)Catholic officials serving in nations of which they are not citizens
E)workers of immigrant origin and their families

Question 20

What nickname was given to the 2016 British vote on whether to leave the European Union?

A)Brexit
B)Open Britain
C)Britain Stronger
D)Free England
E)Independence UK

Question 21

What are some of the economic and environmental costs of globalization?

Question 22

What challenges does Brexit pose for Europe?

Question 23

Why did Ukrainian protestors choose orange as the color of their revolution in late 2004 and early 2005?

A)Orange was the color of Ukrainian nationalists in the Russian Revolution.
B)Orange symbolized a desire to approach the red of communism without a full return to Soviet policies.
C)Orange combined the red of communism with the yellow of the Ukrainian flag.
D)Orange was the color of the Ukrainian nobility before Russian conquest.
E)Orange contrasted with the dismal gray of Ukrainian politics.

Question 24

The success of the Brexit campaign has increased worries that which part of Great Britain would vote to leave it?

A)Scotland
B)Wales
C)England
D)Northern Ireland
E)Gibraltar

Question 25

In 2014,Russia invaded and annexed the province of Crimea,which was part of which former Soviet state?

A)Belarus
B)Ukraine
C)Lithuania
D)Georgia
E)Kazakhstan

Question 26

Which nation interfered in the U.S.presidential election in 2016,with hopes of bringing Donald Trump to power?

A)France
B)Turkey
C)Russia
D)Ukraine
E)Poland

Question 27

What was the Russian annexation of Southern Ossetia from Georgia meant to accomplish for Vladimir Putin?

A)Putin wanted to conquer Joseph Stalin's birthplace for Russian nationalist memorials.
B)Putin wanted to stop Georgia's invasion of Armenia.
C)Putin saw the annexation of Southern Ossetia as a way to placate liberals at home.
D)Putin wanted to prevent the building of American bases in the province.
E)Putin saw the annexation as a step toward making Russia a dominant power again.