Unit 9 (9.1-9.5)

What happens when a member country does not agree with a decision made by the EU government?

• The country may refuse to obey the decision
• The country must carry out the decision anyway.
• The decision does not go into effect anywhere in the EU.
• The decision goes into effect only in countries that support it.

What is the Green Revolution?

• A dramatic increase of corn from 1951-1987
• a program that encourage farmers to adapt modern agriculture methods
• When plants turn green after winter
• The increase of plants because of artificial means

Was the leader of China during the 1980s. He was known for strengthening China's economy through the Four Modernizations.

• Deng Xiaoping
• Mao Zedong

• Vladimir Putin
• Indira Gandhi

These groups were similar as they both supported movements for democracy.

• Cultural

  Revolution and Four Modernizations

• Polish Solidarity and Tiananmen Square
• Pinochet and Hungarian Revolution

• Opium War and Great Leap Forward

Nuclear accident at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union Dumping of toxic waste in the ocean Cutting down the rain forest in Africa and South America

Which conclusion can be drawn from these situations?

• Environmental problems need global solutions.

• The fall of the Soviet Union has caused severe environmental hazards.

• Technology has helped the world stop polluting the environment

• Only nations that create environmental problems will suffer from them.

What is one explanation for the great change in the world population between 1950 and 2000?

• Family planning was successful.

• There was an absence of war and conflict.

• New medicines and technology were discovered and applied.

• Famine and other natural disasters increased.

Based on this late 20th-century map, which conclusion is accurate?

• The worldwide distribution of wealth is unequal.

• Social mobility between social classes is increasing.

• The communist movement is growing.

• Economic self-sufficiency in less developed countries is increasing.

What is a major reason for the trend illustrated by the graph?

• the fall of communist governments in Eastern Europe

• the formation of oil cartels, such as the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

• an increase in global interdependence resulting from modern technology and expanded trade agreements

• a general decline in the standard of living for people in developing countries

Which conclusion about Internet usage can be drawn from this chart?

• Developing nations have easier access to the Internet than developed nations do.

• A high standard of living in a nation is linked to high Internet usage.

• Internet usage limits international cooperation.

• Eastern Hemisphere nations use Internet connections more than Western Hemisphere nations do.

The best conclusion that can be drawn from these graphs is that in 1991

• the Boers outnumbered the British in South Africa

• the black population has decreased due to emigration

• Asians controlled a greater proportion of income in

  comparison to their population

• whites continued to control the largest amount of income after the end of apartheid