Final Exam Review Spring 2016

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What was crucial in the coalition against Iraq?

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

What did the UN Resolution 678 recognize during Desert Shield?

What are African immigrants likely to change in the US?

What is not a pillar of the Islamic faith?

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

What group do terrorists use violence against?

What do griots do when they tell a story?

What may "push" jobs out of the US?

What country started the Yom Kippur War un 1973?

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

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

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

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

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

What is the dominant culture of East Asia?

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

What do Christians believe was the role of Jesus?

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

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

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

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

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

What worries some experts about the International Space Station?

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

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

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

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

How are Arabs as a people largely defined?

What country nationalized the Suez Canal in July 1956?

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

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

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

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

In what area does Vladimir Putin get high marks?

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

Where do most Arabs and Berbers live?

What do Hindus believe in?

What country is the most homogeneous in the world?

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

What radical group did Vladimir I Lenin lead?

What country restricts Tibet's religious freedom?