Global Issues

The movement to establish a Jewish national home was called

• The Taliban

• Al Qaeda

• Zionism

• The Holocaust

a major stumbling block to a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the question of

• ownership and operation of the Suez Canal

• control of the Arabian Peninsula

• representation of Palestinian Arabs and Israelis

• land and civil rights for Palestinian Arabs

Which number labels the country of Israel?

• 12

• 11

• 7

• 1

The main thing these two groups of people are fighting over is:

• Land
• Religion
• Ethnicity
• Free Wifi

Increased Islamic Fundamentalist terrorism is a likely explanation for increased immigration out of the Middle East in modern history.

• True

• False

September 11, 2001 (9/11) was impactful to the world because it showed that even the most powerful nations are vulnerable to terrorist attacks.

• True

• False

What was the motivation for the mass killings of Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda?

• To encourage Pan-Africanism and national unity

• To force religious assimilation

• The political struggle for control after imperialism

• The end of apartheid

Which global problem is best illustrated by the late 20^th-century conflicts in Rwanda, Kosovo, and Sudan?

• violation of human rights

• proliferation of chemical weapons

• disagreement over national borders

• lack of water resources

Conflicts in Rwanda and Darfur demonstrate the destabilizing effects of

• global interdependence

• ethnic conflict

• satellite countries

• natural disasters

In a nation that experience periods of ethnic cleansing or genocide there is usually a diverse population with a government largely dominated by members of one ethnic or religious group.

• True

• False