Deck 3: Globalization and Regional Markets: Geopolitical Analyses

Question 1

Geographic impediments effectively prevented North American development and unification during the 19^th century

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Immigrant status and the westward movement to California encouraged pioneering and self-reliant attitudes

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Today, the United States accounts for about 5 percent of the world population but over a quarter of world GDP

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Canada is the world's second largest nation geographically but has few raw materials or minerals

Question 5

The Free Trade Agreement of the Americas uniting North, Central and South America was signed in 1994

Question 6

Historically, the southern US's agricultural orientation and climate made the plantation method and the use of slaves economical

Question 7

The development of the railroad and the telegraph in the United States were key factors in unifying its national infrastructure

Question 8

In 1988, the US, Canada, and Mexico formed the North American Free Trade Area

Question 9

Latin America, Africa and Asia account for over 75 percent of the world GDP and about 35 percent of the world population

Question 10

North America accounts for about $2.5 trillion of the world's $12 trillion of foreign direct investment

Question 11

North America, Western Europe and Australasia together account for over 60 percent of world GDP but less than 15 percent of the world population

Question 12

Geographically, the subtropical climate of much of South America encourages rain forests and good agricultural outputs

Question 13

The world's major regions have developed economically at similar rates

Question 14

The US industrial revolution occurred in the late 18^th and early 19^th century

Question 15

The United States in recent years has exported far more than it has imported

Question 16

Historically, the northern US's focus on grains, shipbuilding and fisheries encouraged the use of the plantation method of agricultural production and the mass importation of slaves

Question 17

Africa and Asia are attractive investment sites because of their immediate market potential, their educated populations and advanced technologies

Question 18

The United States freed itself from Britain in 1776

Question 19

A key factor in North American development in the 17^th and 18^th centuries was the adoption of English and an Anglo-Saxon culture

Question 20

Climatically, Latin America's development has been affected by its proximity to the equator

Question 21

Latin Americans were never interested in forming trade blocs until the 1990's

Question 22

The Romans were the first to effectively unite Europe

Question 23

Southern European influence on Latin America is evident through its social class systems, religion and languages

Question 24

Western Europe's geography made it difficult to trade and build commercial infrastructures

Question 25

The 1930's Great Depression resulted in Western European governments moving towards social welfare states in the 1940s and towards greater governmental involvement in their economies

Question 26

Much of Western Europe enjoys moderate climatic conditions

Question 27

The Spanish and the Portuguese ruled Latin America from the early 1500s to the early 1800s

Question 28

Latin America provided Europe with silver for about 300 years

Question 29

From the 16^th to 19^th centuries, Western Europeans colonized much of the world

Question 30

Colonized nations reaped few benefits from their European occupiers

Question 31

Up to the 1980's, Latin America's economies were largely protected and had major inflation problems

Question 32

In Western Europe, kings and aristocracies established a hereditary-based social class system that effectively died out in the 19^th century

Question 33

Continental Europe was the first to industrialize, followed by Britain

Question 34

Latin America's agricultural industry never needed slave labor like North America's did

Question 35

There were no real civilizations in Latin America prior to European settlement in the 16^th century

Question 36

Latin America has few natural resources

Question 37

Taxation levels in Western Europe are low by North American standards

Question 38

Western Europe's geography, its coastlines and regional compactness did little to encourage trade and commerce historically

Question 39

Many Latin American countries won their independence from Spain and Portugal between 1500 and 1800

Question 40

Latin America's size, climate and topography made region-wide coordination easy

Question 41

The European Free Trade Area (EFTA) was established in Stockholm in 1960

Question 42

A world trading system was not established until well into the 20^th century

Question 43

Africa's climate has generally resulted in poor soils and inconsistent crop-raising weather

Question 44

One of Russia's greatest problems has been its sheer geographic size

Question 45

The 1990s saw many former Soviet communist countries become more capitalist and hold elections

Question 46

In 1957, the Treaty of Rome established the European Economic Community

Question 47

The Middle Eastern climate is best described as moderate and temperate

Question 48

Soviet (USSR) reforms of their communist system started in the 1960s and 1970s

Question 49

Russian leaders were largely able to maintain a feudal system until the 20^th century

Question 50

Soviet (USSR) reforms of their communist system started under Mikhail Gorbachev in the mid-1980s

Question 51

The 1994 Maastricht agreement homogenized industry standards across the European Union and abolished many non-tariff barriers

Question 52

In the 1990s, some Eastern European nations established a trade bloc (CEFTA) and privatize many of their state-owned enterprises

Question 53

The 1917-18 Russian Revolution abolished the Czar and effectively started the communist system of government that was to last well into the 20^th century

Question 54

Western Europe's privatization program has resulted in almost all government-owned industries being sold back into the private sector

Question 55

Eastern Europe has many resources but few problems producing and distributing food supplies

Question 56

The 1994 Maastricht agreement set target dates for the introduction of the Euro

Question 57

Soviet reforms initiated during the 1980s included perestroika (freedom of expression, openness) and glasnost (restructuring of the economy).

Question 58

After the Russian Revolution in 1917-18, the country's economic progress halted and deteriorated for over two decades

Question 59

Stalin engineered the Russian Revolution in 1917-18

Question 60

The 1945 Yalta Conference effectively separated Europe into Eastern and Western parts

Question 61

One of the major conflicts in the Middle East after 1945 has been between Israel and the Palestinians

Question 62

The Middle East has experienced few internal conflicts since 1945

Question 63

Historically, neither the Middle Eastern countries nor Turkey ever had an empire

Question 64

India's culture and development has been greatly influenced by Hinduism

Question 65

Until the middle of the 19^th century, neither China nor Japan was much influenced by colonizing Europeans

Question 66

A major shaper of Japanese culture has been the Shinto religion

Question 67

Religion has been an insignificant factor in Asian cultural development

Question 68

The 19^th century discovery of gold and minerals in Africa prompted renewed European interest in the region

Question 69

Geographically and climatically, Asia is among the most uniform regions in the world

Question 70

Undeveloped infrastructures have been a major obstacle to African development

Question 71

There have been few religious conflicts in the Middle East since 1945

Question 72

Many of today's Arabic countries did not achieve nation-state status until the 20^th century

Question 73

India's culture and development has been significantly influenced by Confucianism and Taoism

Question 74

Oil deposits have been important factors in Middle Eastern development in the 20^th century

Question 75

Unlike Africa and the Middle East, Asia had few colonial influences on its development

Question 76

After the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan modernized to become a world power in the early 20^th century

Question 77

Since obtaining their independencies from the European colonial powers, African nations had few problems adopting democratic institutions and processes

Question 78

Africa has the world's major oil reserves and the Middle East has significant deposits of valuable minerals

Question 79

Historically, the Middle East has never been a major trader

Question 80

The diverse sets of Asian religions have caused few political problems on a regional basis