Question Question 1 (TCO 9) _____ is a small or moderate change that essentially leaves the system intact

22 Jun Question Question 1 (TCO 9) _____ is a small or moderate change that essentially leaves the system intact

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Question 1

(TCO 9) _____ is a small or moderate change that essentially leaves the system intact.

Mass discontent

Reform

Dramatic system change

A coup d’etat

Question 2

(TCO 9) Describe what can often happen in a changing society when, during times of prosperity, some people get rich faster than others.

Jealousy is aroused.

Politicians pay more attention to poverty.

The very poor revolt.

Economists become confused.

Question 3

(TCO 9) What is likely to happen if the people are unhappy and there is no organization to focus their discontent?

They will almost assuredly turn to violence.

Not much will happen.

The people will organize themselves regardless.

They will eventually find other means of achieving contentedness.

Question 4

(TCO 9) What are the aims of terrorists via their calculated acts of terrorism?

To panic their enemies, to gain publicity and recruits, and to get the foe to overreact and drive more people to side with the terrorists

To destroy as much of the economic strength of a nation as possible

To kill national leaders

To kill their enemies, to gain recruits, and to get the UN to overreact and cause more people to side with the terrorists

Question 5

(TCO 9) According to Hannah Arendt, the American struggle was indeed a revolution, perhaps history’s only complete revolution, _____.

because it alone ended with a democratic institutions.

because it became an example for other nations.

because it managed to rout what was then the great world power.

because it alone ended with a new foundation of liberty instead of the tyranny that came after other revolutions.

Question 6

(TCO 8) Which of the following statements is generally true of sovereign nations?

Laws allow individuals to settle grievances in court.

The lack of legal enforcement forces most to settle disputes on their own.

The spirit of the law often conflicts with the letter of the law.

Written law sometimes conflicts with law as it occurs in practice.

Question 7

(TCO 8) The recent global contraction brought a new wave of _____, as one country after another started to worry about keeping jobs at home.

isolationism

outsourcing

offshoring

protectionism

Question 8

(TCO 8) A big war with a definitive outcome often brings peace because _____.

relative power is clearly seen

power struggles are safely obscured

weaker powers are rendered impotent

larger powers rest satisfied

Question 9

(TCO 8) Identify one major flaw in the current organization of the United Nations.

Larger nations maintain greater influence over world financial issues.

The organization receives support from the International Monetary Fund with no real way to repay those funds.

The U.N. has too much power and thus maintains strict authority over international security matters.

Permanent members of the Security Council maintain the right to veto anything they dislike.

Question 10

(TCO 8) According to political scientist Frank L. Klingberg, naval expenditures, annexations, armed expeditions, and diplomatic pressures reveal alternating phases of _____ in American foreign policy.

aggression and passivity

introversion and extroversion

commerce and stagnation

violence and tranquility