Unit 4.4: Contemporary Global Issues

Which of the following is true about the formation of Israel?

• Israeli people were happy with the borders established by the UN

• Israel has been consistently growing since its establishment

• Israel's establishment led to controversial land disputes

• The establishment of Israel was emphatically supported by neighboring nations

Increased immigration out of the Middle East in the last 6 decades was caused by

• increases in Islamic Fundamentalist terrorism

• a better relationship with the US including increasing trade and negotiations

• Israel's nuclear development program

• the decline in the importance of oil for the global economy

Which of the following was a global effect of 9/11?

• All nations discovered how vulnerable they were to terrorist attacks

• The fall of the World Trade Center caused a series of global depressions

• The US appealed to the UN for help, and the UN debated the answer for years without responding action

• The US sent a global warning threatening any nation who had prior knowledge of the attack

What do Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur have in common?

• They went through recent economic crises

• Had modern religious based conflicts

• Engaged in state-sponsored genocide or ethnic cleansing

• Established independent democracies after the end of Cold War

What is typically true of nations that experience ethnic cleansing or genocide?

• Differing ethnic groups have class and wealth equality

• Acceptance and support of ethnic diversity from neighboring nations

• Elected officials proportionately represent the population

• Government offices are dominated by the ethnic majority

What issue led to most national conflicts in the 1900s?

• Political revolutions

• Economic crises and famines

• Ethnic and religious differences

• Globalization and cultural changes

Which of the following would a pandemic have the biggest effect on?

• Human rights and social stability

• Global perceptions and cultural stability

• Diplomatic relations and political stability

• Unemployment rates and economic stability

What did the creation of the European Union lead to?

• The risk for global conflicts increased

• The global economy is changed by the markets of individual nations

• Global affairs are influenced more by big countries than by small countries

• Global trade is more heavily impacted by European countries than by countries belonging to any other region

US involvement in the Middle East, the resulting terrorist attacks carried out on the US by Islamic fundamentalists, and the US' subsequent invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan resulted in which of the following?

• Iraq was found to be concealing biological and chemical weapons

• The power of ISIS grew

• Western nations stopped relying on oil and fossil fuels from the Middle East

• Middle Eastern Islamic fundamentalist movements ended

What did global terrorism, which increased exponentially in the late 20th century and the 21st century, cause?

• Personal privacy rights increased

• International trade and travel decreased

• Domestic security and surveillance increased

• Prejudice and discrimination against those belonging to a different culture decreased