Exam 32: The Age of Globalization

In the election of 2000, when a court-ordered deadline for the Florida recount arrived, the Florida secretary of state certified Bush the winner in Florida by a little more than 500 votes, even though the recount was not complete.

A pressing foreign policy issue of the first years of the Clinton administration concerned a civil war in

Regarding scandals surrounding President Bill Clinton,

The terrorist organization responsible for the September 2001 attacks is called ________ and was led by Osama Bin Laden.

In 2002, President George W. Bush described an "axis of evil" made up of Iraq, Iran, and

In 2010, the number of foreign-born residents of the United States was at the highest in American history-more than 36 million, or ________ percent of the total population.

Describe the key differences among the post-Cold War foreign policies of the first Bush, Clinton, and second Bush administrations.

How has the Internet changed American society and the American economy? Do you believe these change are permanent?

Without the participation of the United States and China, both of which have not signed the Kyoto Protocol, most environmentalists consider the treaty to be dead.

By 2013, well over ________ computers were in use around the world.

Describe the effect of Hurricane Katrina on public perception of the Bush administration. Do you think this perception was fair? How could the administration have handled events differently?

Since the 1970s, the primary goal of Islamic fundamentalists in the world has been to

The major candidates who opposed Bill Clinton in 1996 were Bob Dole and ________.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the most divisive cultural issue in the United States was

What factors limited President Obama's success in achieving his agenda in his first few years as president?

In late 1995 and early 1996, the public largely blamed a budget impasse that shut down the federal government on

Which presidential administration(s) supported and won congressional support for the Troubled Asset Relief Program?

With help from Republicans in Congress, George W. Bush won passage of the largest tax cut in American history.

Well before September 2001, America had witnessed home-grown terrorism in the actions of militants on the American left and Timothy McVeigh, among others.

In the late 1980s, drug use began to decline significantly among