Chapter 23 Part 1

Question 1

Who was a young uneducated woman from Java in Indonesia during the 21st century, who’s husband died, and was made a sex worker, and now works to help others put in that situation?

Answer 1

Memey

Question 2

By the 1990s, the process of accelerating engagement among distant peoples was widely known as what?

Answer 2

globalization

Question 3

At a conference where in 1944, the US forged a set of agreements and institutions that laid the foundation for postwar globalization?

Answer 3

Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Question 4

At the Bretton Woods conference what agreements and institutions were founded that laid the foundation for globalization?

Answer 4

the World Bank and the INternational Monetary Fund (IMF)

Question 5

What did the “Bretton Woods system” do?

Answer 5

negotiated the rules for commercial and financial dealings among the major capitalist countries, while promoting relatively free trade, stable currency values linked to the U.S. dollar, and high levels of capital investment

Question 6

What technological advances also contributed to the acceleration of economic globalization?

Answer 6

Containerized shipping, huge oil tankers, and air express services

Question 7

What was the economic globalization that took shape in 1970s later known as ?

Answer 7

neoliberalism

Question 8

What was “reglobalization”?

Answer 8

an immensely significant process which was expressed in the accelerating circulation of goods, capital, and people

Question 9

World trade skyrocketed from a value of some $57 billion in 1947 to what in 2012?

Answer 9

to about $18.3 trillion

Question 10

What company of London marketed its 120 blends of tea in more than 100 countries?

Answer 10

Twinings

Question 11

In 2005 what percentage of Walmart products included components from China?

Answer 11

70 percent

Question 12

What company replaced General Motors as the world’s largest automaker, with manufacturing facilities in at least eighteen countries?

Answer 12

Toyota

Question 13

What were the three ways money as well as goods achieved an amazing global mobility?

Answer 13

foreign direct investment, short-term movement of capital (investing in foreign currencies or stock), and personal funds of individuals

Question 14

In 2012, what company was accepted at some 33 million businesses in 220 countries or territories?

Answer 14

Mastercard

Question 15

Central to the acceleration of economic globalization have been huge global businesses known as what?

Answer 15

transnational corporations (TNCs)

Question 16

What company produced Barbie, that quintessentially American doll, in factories located in Indonesia, Malaysia, and China?

Answer 16

Mattel Corporation

Question 17

What TNCs in 1960s, often were of such an enormous size and had such economic clout that their assets and power dwarfed that of many countries?

Answer 17

Royal Dutch Shell, Sony, and General Motors

Question 18

By 2000, how many of the world’s 100 largest economic units were in fact TNCs, not countries?

Answer 18

51

Question 19

What people moved to Great Britain?

Answer 19

Pakistanis, Indians, and West Indians

Question 20

What people moved to France?

Answer 20

Algerians and West Africans

Question 21

What people moved to the United States?

Answer 21

Filipinos, Koreans, Cubans, Mexicans, and Haitians

Question 22

A considerable majority of the people who relocated since the 1960s in a pattern of global migration have been dubbed what?

Answer 22

labor migrants

Question 23

Refugees fled around the world out of which countries for example?

Answer 23

Vietnam, Cambodia, Sudan, Uganda, Cuba, and Haiti

Question 24

The journey to America had been dangerous as burning deserts, American immigration authorities, and depended on the expensive and sometimes unreliable “________” who facilitated the smuggling of people across the border

Answer 24

coyotes

Question 25

What contributed to a severe stock market crash in 1973-74 and great hardship for many developing countries?

Answer 25

soaring oil prices

Question 26

What is another term for the inflated housing market which in the United States collapsed, triggering millions of home foreclosures, unemployment, credit and decline in spending in 2008?

Answer 26

bubble

Question 27

Where did some 90 percent of the country’s diamond-mine workers lose their job?

Answer 27

Sierra Leone

Question 28

What well-known capitalist financier and investor, a billionaire many times over, acknowledged that the global capitalist system has produced uneven playing field. the gap between the rich and poor is getting wider?

Answer 28

George Soros in 2000

Question 29

In 1994 in Mexico, what rebellion expressed southern resentment the north and featured a strong anti-globalization platform?

Answer 29

Chiapas Rebellion

Question 30

Who was the leader of the Chiapas rebellion who referred to globalization as a “process to eliminate that multitude of people who are not useful to the powerful.”

Answer 30

Subcomandante Marcos

Question 31

The movement of anti-globalization appeared dramatically on the world’s radar in 1999 in Seattle at a meeting of what?

Answer 31

World Trade Organization (WTO)

Question 32

To protest the meeting in Seattle of the WTO, protesters organized what around the slogan “No globalization without representation?”

Answer 32

Seattle Tea Party

Question 33

In 2001, alternative globalization activists created what, an annual gathering to coordinate strategy, exchange ideas, and share experiences, under the slogan “Another world is possible.”

Answer 33

World Social Forum

Question 34

In its economic dimension, American dominance has been termed what which uses its immense wealth to entice or intimidate potential collaborators?

Answer 34

empire of production

Question 35

When the United States was attacked by Islamic militants on September 11, 2001, where did they unleash their power?

Answer 35

first against Afghanistan, which had sheltered the al-Qaeda instigators and then against Iraq where Saddam Hussein allegedly had been developing weapons of mass destruction

Question 36

What war divided the United States more sharply than at any time since the Civil War?

Answer 36

The Vietnam War - it split families and friendships, churches and political parties

Question 37

What idea spread through the planet that was one of the most powerful?

Answer 37

liberation

Question 38

Where did swelling protests against unresponsive bureaucracy, consumerism, and middle-class values most notably erupt?

Answer 38

France in 1968

Question 39

IN 1968, a new Communist Party leadership in Czechoslovakia, was led by whom, who initiated a sweeping series of reforms aimed at creating “socialism with a human face”?

Answer 39

Alexander Dubcek

Question 40

What is Prague Spring?

Answer 40

a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia during the era of its domination by the Soviet Union after World War II. It began on 5 January 1968, when reformist Alexander Dubček was elected; reforms were a strong attempt by Dubček to grant additional rights to the citizens of Czechoslovakia

Question 41

In the developing countries, a substantial number of political leaders, activists, scholars, and students developed the notion of what?

Answer 41

third world

Question 42

By the late 1960s, the icon of this third-world ideology was whom, the Argentine-born revolutionary who had embraced the Cuban Revolution and attempted to replicate its experience of liberation through guerrilla warfare?

Answer 42

Che Guevara

Question 43

What expression of global culture of liberation held the most profound potential for change?

Answer 43

feminism

Question 44

In France what writer and philosopher in 1949 had published The Second Sex, a book arguing that woman had historically been defined as “other,” or deviant from the “normal” male sex?

Answer 44

Simone de Beauvoir

Question 45

French feminists staged a counter-Mother’s Day parade under what slogan?

Answer 45

Celebrated one day; exploited all year.

Question 46

What book by Betty Friedan in 1963, disclosed the identity crisis of educated women, unfulfilled by marriage and motherhood?

Answer 46

The Feminine Mystique

Question 47

What was the more radical expression of American feminism known as?

Answer 47

women’s liberation

Question 48

Women’s liberationists challenged the Miss America contest of 1968 by doing what?

Answer 48

tossing stink bombs in the hall, crowing a live sheep as their Miss America, and disposing of girdles, bras, high-heeled shoes, tweezers, and other “instruments of oppression” in a Freedom Trashcan

Question 49

Many African governments and many African men defined feminism of any kind as what and associated it with hated colonialism?

Answer 49

un-African

Question 50

In the North African Islamic kingdom of Morocco, a more centrally directed and nationally focused feminist movement targeted what?

Answer 50

the country’s Family Law Code - defined women as minors

Question 51

In Chile, a women’s movement emerged as part of a national struggle against the military dictatorship of whom?

Answer 51

General Augusto Pinochet

Question 52

Feminism registered as a global issue when the United Nations, under pressure from women activists, declared 1975 as what?

Answer 52

International Women’s Year and the next ten years as the Decade for Women

Question 53

Who was a prominent American opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment, feminism was a “disease” that brought fear, sickness, pain, etc.?

Answer 53

Phyllis Schlafly