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WorksheetsGlobal Growth and Cultural Change
Total questions: 49
Worksheet time: 31mins
The ten largest cities in population are in North America and Europe.
True
False
Coal, oil, nuclear, and solar are all used to produce electricity.
True
False
Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 and seized its oil reserves.
True
False
The percentage of the people in the world who were literate declined in the twentieth century.
True
False
NASA lost two space shuttles during the shuttle’s 30-year service.
True
False
The European Union has its own military.
True
False
The Communist dictator, Josip Broz Tito, held the Yugoslav republics together while he was alive.
True
False
Hippies trusted and supported the established government.
True
False
As African nations freed themselves of their colonizers, they experienced nothing but peace and prosperity.
True
False
The Chinese Communist Party survived because it allowed the people some economic freedom.
True
False
The purpose of art, literature, music, and movies in the later twentieth century was to uphold Christian values.
True
False
Cultural diffusion lessened during the twentieth century.
True
False
World GDP increased dramatically in the twentieth century.
True
False
What was the most significant invention of the twentieth century?
The microchip or computer chip
The steam engine
The printing press
The telephone
What was Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream?
A nation where people were judged by their character and not the color of their skin
A nation with equal wealth distribution
A nation with no poverty
A nation with universal healthcare
What is one of the three reasons for the population growth in the 20th century?
Define rural.
A place with fewer than 500 people per square mile
A place with more than 1000 people per square mile
A place with no people
A place with only urban facilities
This institution was created to lend to financially troubled countries.
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
World Health Organization (WHO)
United Nations (UN)
World Trade Organization (WTO)
What is an example of a radical environmentalist group that started in the 1970s?
Greenpeace
Sierra Club
Earth First!
Friends of the Earth
What was the official policy of segregation in South Africa?
Apartheid
Jim Crow
Racial Harmony
Segregation Act
Which Rwandan tribe suffered a genocide in 1994?
Hutu
Tutsi
Zulu
Maasai
Which two regions in Israel have Arab majorities and have been locations of violence?
West Bank and Gaza Strip
Golan Heights and Negev
Tel Aviv and Haifa
Jerusalem and Bethlehem
The key idea of postmodernism is that there is NO _____________ __________.
Absolute truth
Relative truth
Objective truth
Universal truth
Economic and political alliance of nearly thirty European nations.
(a)
national currency of several European nations
(a)
Saddam Hussein invaded which country in 1990 and seized its oil reserves?
Bahrain
Kuwait
Turkey
Yemen
Which resource was the best tool for research before the internet?
Telegraph
Printed encyclopedia
Their grandparents
A bulletin board
What was not a medical advancement in the later twentieth century?
The discovery of the structure of DNA
Laser surgeries
MRI machines
Penicillin
What was not a task of the space shuttle?
Exploration of Mars
Carrying cargo into space
Supply a space station
Serve as a place to perform science experiments in space
What was created to help less developed countries?
The European Union
NATO
The International Monetary Fund
The World Bank
Serbia was charged with committing genocide in this republic.
Macedonia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
Montenegro
What was the economic condition of most of the newly free countries in Eastern Europe in 1991?
backward and underdeveloped
healthy and growing
improving gradually
highly developed
What is not a way Mart Laar reformed the Estonian economy?
passing a balanced budget
regulating prices
enacting a flat tax
establishing the rule of law
What year did the internet we know today come to be?
2001
1978
1969
1995
How did hippies live out their environmental convictions in the 1960s and 70s?
by recycling
by establishing utopian communities
by selling carbon credits
by cutting down forests to build farms
What was the purpose of the civil rights movement in the United States?
to establish positive racism
to end slavery
to end segregation
to get reparations
This nation suffered a famine that got the attention of the West and celebrities in 1984.
Ethiopia
Libya
Rwanda
South Africa
What were Chinese students protesting about in Tiananmen Square in 1989?
for the government to get reparations from Japan
for the government to pay for their college
for the government to allow more economic freedom
for the government to allow for personal freedoms like the freedom of speech and assembly
In 1997 the United Kingdom handed over control of this city to the Chinese Communist Party.
Taipei, Taiwan
Hong Kong
Singapore
Macau
The UK and Argentina fought over these islands in 1982.
the Maltese Islands
the Falkland Islands
the Hawaiian Islands
the Solomon Islands
What two countries attacked Israel in the Yom Kippur War?
Egypt and Lebanon
Syria and Lebanon
Jordan and Libya
Egypt and Syria
List at least two ways communication advances improved the quality of life for many in the twentieth century.
How did the emphasis of Christian missions change over the century?
Missionaries focused on individual people groups in those countries.
Missionaries focused only on their home countries.
Missionaries did not change their focus.
Missionaries focused on the global economy.
What was the 1997 Asian economic crisis? How did it affect Asian countries?
A period when many Asian nations suffered due to strengthened Japanese banks.
A period when many Asian nations thrived due to increased foreign investments.
A period when many Asian nations suffered when their money lost its value.
A period when many Asian nations experienced a technological boom.
Who led the opposition against the Shah?
Ayatollah Khomeini
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King Jr.
F. W. de Klerk
Who rose to power by standing up to perceived injustices done to Serbians living in Kosovo?
Nelson Mandela
Slobodan Milošević
Muammar al-Qaddafi
Martin Luther King Jr.
Who was elected president of South Africa in 1994?
F. W. de Klerk
Ayatollah Khomeini
Nelson Mandela
Muammar al-Qaddafi
Who set up a government and called it 'Islamic socialism'?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Muammar al-Qaddafi
Slobodan Milošević
Nelson Mandela
Who eased apartheid restrictions?
Ayatollah Khomeini
F. W. de Klerk
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King Jr.
