Chapter 8, Key Issue 4 Quiz

Which of the following is NOT true?

• The United Nations allows all member states to discuss conflicts rather than engage in warfare to solve problems.

• The United Nations provides an international team of peacekeeping troops to missions around the world.

• The United Nations plays a role in addressing global economic problems.

• The United Nations provides humanitarian aid and assistance.

• The United Nations experienced no substantial growth in membership since the 1960s when the colonial powers vacated African nations.

What was a distinctive feature of the world's superpowers between the 1940s and 1980s compared to other eras?

• The United States and the Soviet Union were superpowers for the first time.

• The two superpowers were never involved in wars.

• The number of superpowers was much lower than in the past.

• The superpowers had satellites.

• The superpowers used religion to settle conflicts.

Which of the following is an INCORRECT statement about the Cold War?

• The United States and the USSR were the only two remaining superpowers after WWII.

• The United States reinforced its political alliances and ideology through military assertion in Panama and Grenada.

• Both the United States and the USSR established a military presence via bases and troop presence in countries that were allies.

• The Cuban Missile Crisis was negotiated and settled peacefully at the United Nations.

• Countries in the Soviet Bloc were described as satellites.

NATO membership expanded immediately after the dissolution of the USSR to include

• former Warsaw Pact countries.

• the remaining colonies under British and U.S. control.

• Cuba to avoid another missile crisis.

• Switzerland, Austria, and Serbia.

• Ireland, Sweden, and Finland.

The European Union

• has as its main objective to promote development within member states through economic and political cooperation.

• consolidates all economic planning in London, England.

• distributes large urban populations to undeveloped rural areas in order to distribute development and wealth.

• negotiates restrictive immigration policies and reduces mobility within member states.

• established English as the national language of all member states.

Economic and political cooperation in the European Union takes the form of all but which of the following?

• Subsidies are provided to economically depressed areas.

• Transfer of finished products between countries is simplified.

• With few exceptions, citizens may live in one country but work in another without political difficulty.

• Every member country must adopt the Euro currency.

• A European Parliament is elected by member states.

The global recession of 2008 brought especially severe repercussions to economically weaker nations in the European Union, including all but which of the following?

• Greece

• Ireland

• Italy

• France

• Spain

The OAS

• sought an end to colonialism and apartheid in Africa.

• promotes social, cultural, political, and economic links among member states in the Western Hemisphere.

• is a coalition of former British colonies.

• has played an active role in ending conflicts in the Balkans.

• promoted trade in the Soviet Bloc.

In 2002 the Organization of African Unity was replaced by

• the African Union.

• the African National Party.

• the African Treaty Organization.

• the Organization of African OPEC States.

• the Organization for African Economic Cooperation.

The Commonwealth is primarily

• an economic and cultural alliance of states once part of the British Empire.

• an organization of culturally homogenous nations that opposed the Warsaw Pact.

• organized to increase availability of mineral resources in perforated states that are NATO allies.

• a religious entity that sends missionaries to Africa from the United Kingdom.

• an association of countries that were once members of COMECON and the Warsaw Pact.