Chapter 22: Twenty-First-Century Global Challenges, 2001-the Present Vocab

Question 1

global war on terror

Answer 1

Global crusade to root out anti-American, anti-western Islamist terrorist cells; launched by President George W. Bush as a response to the 9/11 attacks.

Question 2

Great Recession

Answer 2

The economic downturn, with global reverberations, provoked by the financial crash of 2008.

Question 3

Free market

Answer 3

Unregulated markets.

Question 4

economic inequality

Answer 4

Systematically uneven distribution of both income and opportunity among different groups of people or different nations.

Question 5

global climate change

Answer 5

A wide range of phenomena caused by global warming. These changes encompass not only rising temperatures, but also changes in precipitation patterns; ice mass loss on mountain glaciers around the world; shifts in the life cycles and migration patterns of flora and fauna; extreme weather events; and sea level rise.

Question 6

Black Lives Matter

Answer 6

A decentralized and eventually global movement founded in 2013 that champions nonviolent civil disobedience in resistance to police brutality and violence against Black people.

Question 7

LGBTQ

Answer 7

Acronym for people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.

Question 8

pandemic

Answer 8

An outbreak of disease occurring worldwide or over a great area, spanning international boundaries and affecting a large number of people.

Question 9

globalization

Answer 9

Development of integrated worldwide cultural and economic structures.