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Final Jeopardy

Globalism

$100 Question from H1

The Cold War was over; democracy and capitalism

had won. There was no longer a balance of power

in the world; America was alone at the top.

$100 Answer from H1

New World Order

$200 Question from H1

With the world’s largest population, labor force, and consumer markets.

$200 Answer from H1

China is once again considered a superpower

$300 Question from H1

The world is being drawn together as never before by

international trade, communications, and mass media, a

phenomenon termed ______________.

$300 Answer from H1

What is Globalism

$400 Question from H1

“Poverty is the worst form of violence”. Said___________

$400 Answer from H1

Gandhi said,

$500 Question from H1

the 3 basic economic models

$500 Answer from H1

Early capitalist, Communist, and the middle ground of Authoritarian

$100 Question from H2

______________ had a democratic government that took

unused land from the giant American-owned United Fruit

Company and gave the land to peasants. In response, the U.S.

arranged the overthrow ______________ government -- one of

several Latin American governments overthrown with U.S. help.

$100 Answer from H2

what happened in Guatemala in the early 1950’s

$200 Question from H2

Unstable governments in this continent

have slowed ___________economic

progress because foreign businesses are

reluctant to invest their money where

conditions are not secure.

$200 Answer from H2

the problems in Africa that make it the poorest continent in the world

$300 Question from H2

What violent conflict occurred in Serbia during 1999?

$300 Answer from H2

In 1999, the world identified a new type of ethnic violence

when Serbia was accused of ethnic cleansing in the Serbian

province of Kosovo. Christian Serbs were brutally forcing

Muslims out of Serbia, killing many Muslims in the process.

$400 Question from H2

The conflict that exists between __________ and

___________ in the Holy Land of The Middle East

since the 1940’s

$400 Answer from H2

the conflict that exists between Israel and Palestine

$500 Question from H2

What happened in1951 that has since lead to the terrible

relationship between the U.S. and Iran?

$500 Answer from H2

In 1951, a democratic government in Iran voted to

take control of its oil industry from the British. In

response, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency

(spy agency) secretly organized the overthrow

(coup) of Iran’s leader and replaced him with a

monarch, the shah. This was the first of several

times that U.S. leaders used the CIA to harm or

overthrow foreign governments without the

knowledge of the American people. For 25 years,

the Shah supplied the U.S. with Iranian oil and a

base of operations in the Middle East.

$100 Question from H3

Islamic ________________tend to believe that people

should adopt basic religious values and that religion should

influence government policies. _____________also tend to

be intolerant of other religions.

$100 Answer from H3

Fundamentalists or Islamic fundamentalism

$200 Question from H3

What are some of the unforeseen negative

consequences of the 2003 U.S. intervention in Iraq?

$200 Answer from H3

It hurt American relations with important allies, and it turned

worldwide Muslim opinion against the U.S. The war is costing

more in lives and money than expected, and it has triggered

ethnic warfare between Sunnis and Shi’as in Iraq. As

happened earlier in Vietnam, Latin America, and Iran, U.S.

intervention in Iraq had unforeseen negative consequences.

$300 Question from H3

Why is Biotechnology such a promising new field for

improving humanity?

$300 Answer from H3

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Doctors have begun to treat disease

by using drugs to modify or repair

human genes, and soon it may be

possible to develop gene-based

treatments for nearly every disease,

allowing people to live longer and

healthier lives.

$400 Question from H3

In what ways did capitalism

become updated and reformed from

economist John Maynard Keynes?

$400 Answer from H3

Unlike Adam Smith, Keynes said government

should interfere in the economy. Keynes

believed government could stabilize the

economy by raising or lowering taxes or

government spending. He said, for example,

that depressions could be avoided by

increasing government spending, which

would create more jobs, which would increase

demand for goods, which would stimulate

industrial production

$500 Question from H3

What are some of the challenges that face democracy?

$500 Answer from H3

Perhaps the greatest threat facing American democracy today is the

huge sums of money needed to win election campaigns. This creates

a situation in which large campaign contributors can influence the

votes of elected officials.

$100 Question from H4

What are some of the solutions to improving the environment

and avoiding global warming?

$100 Answer from H4

Scientists agree that human activity is contributing to global

warming, which is changing the earth’s environment, melting

polar ice, raising ocean levels, and causing a great die-off of the

earth’s species. Industrial nation like the U.S. are the biggest

polluters that need to limit the production of greenhouse gasses.

$200 Question from H4

The Bush administration was

following a new policy

of_____________, which

means the U.S. may attack a

country (even if it has done

nothing to threaten or harm

America) if U.S. leaders feel

the country might want to harm

America in the future.

$200 Answer from H4

preemptive war

$300 Question from H4

Following the 9-11 attacks, President George W. Bush

declared a “war on terrorism,” and he launched an invasion

of_______________, which was home to al Qaeda, the

terrorist organization believed responsible for 9/11.

$300 Answer from H4

Afghanistan

$400 Question from H4

The world’s poorest countries are termed

____________nations or the Third World. Most are

in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, and most are

former colonies.

$400 Answer from H4

developing

$500 Question from H4

He was the US president after G. H.W. Bush senior.

$500 Answer from H4

Bill Clinton

$100 Question from H5

He was the U.S. president after Jimmy Carter.

$100 Answer from H5

R. Reagan

$200 Question from H5

Africa is plagued by the world’s worst epidemic

of____________, which can hurt African

economies due to high medical costs and the loss of

productive workers.

$200 Answer from H5

AIDS

$300 Question from H5

The approximate population of the US today is

$300 Answer from H5

The approximate population of the US today is about 300 million

$400 Question from H5

The approximate population of the world today is

$400 Answer from H5

The approximate population of the world

today is 7 billion.

$500 Question from H5

A few of the reasons that

the world has

experienced a population

boom since the Industrial

Revolution of the 1800’s

$500 Answer from H5

The population boom is attributed to longer life

expectancy and lower infant mortality, which

is due to improved sanitation and modern

preventative medicine like vaccines.

(population boom is not due to an increase in

birth rates)

Final Jeopardy

The nine nuclear nations are ?

Final Jeopardy Answer

U.S., Britain, Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan,

Israel, and North Korea.