Terrorism & global Security
U.S law expanded surveillance powers in the name of national security after 9/11
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
This Middle Eastern country combines elected politics with the supreme authority of a religious cleric.
What is Iran?
These corporations, like Nestlé and Honda, operate in many countries and drive globalization.
What are multinational corporations?
This medical breakthrough has saved millions by fighting bacterial infections.
What is penicillin (or antibiotics)?
This basic democratic action allows citizens to support their government.
What is voting?
Radical Islamic Terrorist often use three of this methods as attacks to install fear.
What are hijackings, bombings, and shootings?
Many Muslim-majority countries base parts of their legal systems on this religious law.
What is sharia law?
These four Asian economies became global powerhouses and are nicknamed the "Four Tigers."
What are South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong Kong?
These types of scans allow doctors to see inside the human body with great detail.
What are CAT scans and MRIs?
This form of protest was used by Mandela and Gandhi to push for change without violence.
What is non-violent resistance (or peaceful protest)?
Public venues like airports and stadiums have seen increased security due to this global threat.
What is terrorism (or radical Islamic terrorism)?
Oil-rich countries like Saudi Arabia and Iraq use this to maintain political stability.
What is oil revenue (or wealth from oil)?
NAFTA and the EU are examples of these kinds of trade pacts.
What are free trade agreements?
This tiny innovation led to smaller, more efficient computers.
What is the silicon chip?
This religious leader helped bring change in Poland during the Cold War.
Who is Pope John Paul II?
This major global challenge involves maintaining safety without infringing too much on civil liberties.
What is balancing security with individual freedoms?
Authoritarian leaders in some Muslim-majority countries stay in power by doing this for citizens.
What is providing public services or using wealth to placate citizens?
One downside of globalization is this practice of moving jobs to other countries.
What is outsourcing?
This type of fast transportation helped make the world more connected.
What is high-speed travel (or bullet trains and modern airplanes)?
These dramatic events in countries like France and Russia led to entirely new governments.
What are revolutions?
Whats Al queada?
Are Muslims monotheistic or polytheistic?
whats monotheistic?
the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.
whats Mercantilism?
What year did tv come out in color?
Whats 1954?
Who's part of the montgomery bus boycott?
Whose Rosa Parks?