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8.05 Quizizz Review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 50mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What does OPEC stand for?

a)

Oil and Petroleum Exporter Conference

b)

Outsourcing Prevention and Economic Council

c)

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

d)

Operative Perestroika Executive Council

2.

Which of these is an important goal for OPEC?

a)

keeping gas prices as low as possible

b)

oil price stability

c)

controlling the political decisions of member nations

d)

donating oil profits to renewable energy research

3.

When was OPEC formed?

a)

1880

b)

1960

c)

1985

d)

2012

4.

Which of the following countries was not involved in the Camp David Accords?

a)

Iran

b)

Israel

c)

Egypt

d)

the U.S.

5.

What kind of agreement did Anwar Sadat and Meacham Begin sign at the Camp David Accords meetings?

a)

free trade agreement

b)

agreement to join the UN

c)

promise to ally with U.S. during the Cold War

d)

peace treaty

6.

What event was spurred by fears that the U.S. would help return the Iranian shah to power?

a)

Iran-Contra Affair

b)

Iran Hostage Crisis

c)

Iran-Iraq war

d)

Camp David Accords

7.

What did Ronald Reagan do that later became known as 'The Iran-Contra Affair'?

a)

secretly sell weapons to Iran & help fund Nicaraguan rebels

b)

secretly fund a communist revolution in Nicaragua

c)

Sell Iraqi intelligence to Iranian militants

d)

Facilitated the sale of Iranian weapons to Nicaraguan Contras

8.

Which of the following is considered to be a major milestone in the ending of the Cold War?

a)

the Iran-Contra Affair

b)

the Fall of the Berlin Wall

c)

NAFTA took effect

d)

OPEC was created

9.

In 1994, this agreement reduced trade barriers between Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

a)

NAFTA

b)

OPEC

c)

Camp David Accords

d)

The Patriot Act

10.

Deregulation in the 1980s & increasing globalization led to what economic trend?

a)

outsourcing

b)

deflation

c)

safety testing for consumer products

d)

global warming

11.

Which election had to be settled via Supreme Court case when neither candidate won more than 50% of the popular vote and disputed recounts in Florida held up election results?

a)

2000: Bush vs Gore

b)

2008: Obama vs McCain

c)

1996: Clinton vs Dole

d)

2016: Trump vs Clinton

12.

Who won the 2008 presidential election?

a)

Barack Obama

b)

Hilary Clinton

c)

John McCain

d)

George Bush

13.

What terrorist attack on the U.S. led to The Patriot Act, a law allowing extensive government surveillance of citizens?

a)

9/11

b)

Oklahoma City Bombing

c)

World Trade Center Bombing

d)

Columbine shooting

14.

What terrorist group is credited with carrying out the 9/11 attacks?

a)

ISIS

b)

Al-Qaeda

c)

Taliban

d)

Boko Haram

15.

Who was responsible for the Oklahoma City Bombing?

a)

A domestic (American) terrorist

b)

A member of Al-Qaeda

c)

A member of ISIS

d)

A foreign government agent

16.

What term means "economic reform that included removing restrictions on private ownership, reducing government oversight on trade, and allowing for foreign investment in Soviet industry"?

a)

glasnost

b)

detente

c)

globalization

d)

perestroika

17.

Which of the following terms was used to describe racial segregation enforced through laws and allowing one race to dominate another, often in regards to South Africa?

a)

detente

b)

apartheid

c)

deregulation

d)

proliferation

18.

Which of the following terms is an informal name for the South and Southwest, which tend to have warmer climates and had large population growth from the 1960s to the present?

a)

Rust Belt

b)

Bible Belt

c)

Sun Belt

d)

Wheat Belt

19.

The process of creating stronger cultural, economic, and political ties between nations is known as...?

a)

detente

b)

deregulation

c)

glasnost

d)

globalization

20.

Which of the following was a biological attack on media sources and legislators?

a)

anthrax letters

b)

Oklahoma City Bombings

c)

Bosnian Genocide

d)

Columbine

21.

Which of the following was the result of a civil war that led to a million deaths?

a)

Bosnian Genocide

b)

Rwandan Genocide

c)

Holocaust

d)

Anthrax Letters

22.

Which major oil company was associated with an accident that led to a 10 million gallon oil spill off the Alaskan coast?

a)

BP

b)

CITGO

c)

Exxon

d)

Valero

23.

Al-Qaeda led an attack on this U.S. Naval ship in Yemen.

a)

USS Constitution

b)

USS Maine

c)

USS Cole

d)

USS Franklin

24.

The text message, Playstation, and the World Wide Web were all technological innovations in which decade?

a)

1970s

b)

1980s

c)

1990s

d)

2000s

25.

This event included the hijacking of 5 planes by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

a)

Dawson's Field crisis

b)

9/11

c)

World Trade Center bombings

d)

USS Cole explosion