Final Exam Review Spring 2016

Question 1

What was crucial in the coalition against Iraq?

Accepted Answer

Arab engagement

Question 2

What religious group believes God created the universe &appointed them to be his chosen people?

Accepted Answer

Judaism

Question 3

What WMD did Hussein's regime use on numerous occasions?

Accepted Answer

Poison gas

Question 4

What is world's 2nd largest crude oil producer and exporter?

Accepted Answer

Russia

Question 5

Where do most Arabs and Berbers live?

Accepted Answer

North Africa

Question 6

What was a reason for Hussein's forces invading Iran in 1980?

Accepted Answer

20th Century border disputes

Question 7

China, Japan, and the Koreas are located in what region?

Accepted Answer

East Asia

Question 8

What may "push" jobs out of the US?

Accepted Answer

High labor costs

Question 9

What language did Jewish Israelis recreate and make the everyday language of the country?

Accepted Answer

Hebrew

Question 10

What did Osama Bin Laden call on his followers to embrace?

Accepted Answer

Martyrdom

Question 11

What country backed up the US Armed Forces assault on Iraq in 2003?

Accepted Answer

Britain

Question 12

What country nationalized the Suez Canal in July 1956?

Accepted Answer

Egypt

Question 13

What country was considered the "breadbasket" of the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

Ukraine

Question 14

What is the dominant culture of East Asia?

Accepted Answer

Chinese

Question 15

What do African countries owe the most of their debt to?

Accepted Answer

The World Bank

Question 16

What is not a pillar of the Islamic faith?

Accepted Answer

Forcing non-believers to convert to Islam

Question 17

What was the result of farm collectivization under Joseph V Stalin?

Accepted Answer

Tens of millions of peasants starved to death

Question 18

Country Russia is working with US, China, Japan and S. Korea to bring into family of nations?

Accepted Answer

North Korea

Question 19

What country restricts Tibet's religious freedom?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 20

What country has serious resistance to the idea of equal rights for women?

Accepted Answer

Afghanistan

Question 21

What is the largest archipelago in the world, in terms of area?

Accepted Answer

Malay

Question 22

What status did the UN's partition plan grant Jerusalem in 1947?

Accepted Answer

International

Question 23

Besides ISIS, what group &its allies have been the greatest terror threat to the US since 1993?

Accepted Answer

Al-Qaeda

Question 24

What did the UN Resolution 678 recognize during Desert Shield?

Accepted Answer

Use of "all necessary means " to enforce earlier resolution

Question 25

What country is far and away the leader in African gold production?

Accepted Answer

South Africa

Question 26

Why did Russia have the largest Jewish population in the world at the end of the 18th Century?

Accepted Answer

Russia absorbed much of Poland and its Jewish population

Question 27

What preceded Secretary of State Clinton's announcement of 4 immediate anti-piracy measures?

Accepted Answer

The attack on the Maersk ship Alabama

Question 28

What country is the most homogeneous in the world?

Accepted Answer

Japan

Question 29

How are Arabs as a people largely defined?

Accepted Answer

By their language

Question 30

What do Hindus believe in?

Accepted Answer

The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, as well as karma

Question 31

What was a factor in the serious economic state of the Soviet Union in the period after WWII?

Accepted Answer

The government borrowed too much money

Question 32

What do griots do when they tell a story?

Accepted Answer

Improvise the story each time

Question 33

How did the Kievan Rus princes Vladimir and Yaroslav increase their power?

Accepted Answer

By marrying off their female relatives to European kings

Question 34

What are African immigrants likely to change in the US?

Accepted Answer

Racial dynamics

Question 35

What group is the largest white population in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Accepted Answer

Afrikaners

Question 36

What did Al-Qaeda teams turn into weapons during the 9/11 attack?

Accepted Answer

Aircraft

Question 37

What radical group did Vladimir I Lenin lead?

Accepted Answer

Bolsheviks

Question 38

What group do terrorists use violence against?

Accepted Answer

Non-combatants

Question 39

______ routed it's opponent's ground forces in a swift & stunning victory in the 6 Day War.

Accepted Answer

Israel

Question 40

In what area does Vladimir Putin get high marks?

Accepted Answer

Overall economic policies

Question 41

What do Christians believe was the role of Jesus?

Accepted Answer

Son of God sent to save mankind from death & sin.

Question 42

What is the term for the loss of skills &knowledge from a place when its educated people leave?

Accepted Answer

Brain drain

Question 43

What country did the US and its allies invade less than a month after the attacks on 9/11/

Accepted Answer

Afghanistan

Question 44

Event that brought USSR and US as close as they ever came to a "hot war" during the cold war?

Accepted Answer

1973 War Arab-Israeli

Question 45

What has Russia already done to demonstrate use of oil & gas as geopolitical leverage?

Accepted Answer

Withheld supplies to force prices up in Europe

Question 46

What is the principal issue between the countries of India and Pakistan?

Accepted Answer

Disputed territory of Kashmir

Question 47

What country started the Yom Kippur War un 1973?

Accepted Answer

Egypt

Question 48

What do the Millennium Development Goals call for cutting in half?

Accepted Answer

Poverty

Question 49

What percentage of the population do people of mixed race make up in South Africa?

Accepted Answer

9%

Question 50

What worries some experts about the International Space Station?

Accepted Answer

Russia could try to use it as a bargaining chip

Question 51

What is the impact of electronic products manufactured in Asia on the US market?

Accepted Answer

US factories produce few electronics

Final Exam Review Spring 2016

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Final Exam Review Spring 2016

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