“What in the World? Weekly Quiz" | February 7-13, 2022

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Tomorrow the World

By Stephen Wertheim

A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year

A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world.

For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and military commitments that would entangle it in European-style power politics. Then, suddenly, it conceived a new role for itself as the world’s armed superpower―and never looked back. In Tomorrow, the World, Stephen Wertheim traces America’s transformation to the crucible of World War II, especially in the months prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. As the Nazis conquered France, the architects of the nation’s new foreign policy came to believe that the United States ought to achieve primacy in international affairs forevermore.

Scholars have struggled to explain the decision to pursue global supremacy. Some deny that American elites made a willing choice, casting the United States as a reluctant power that sloughed off “isolationism” only after all potential competitors lay in ruins. Others contend that the United States had always coveted global dominance and realized its ambition at the first opportunity. Both views are wrong. As late as 1940, the small coterie of officials and experts who composed the U.S. foreign policy class either wanted British preeminence in global affairs to continue or hoped that no power would dominate. The war, however, swept away their assumptions, leading them to conclude that the United States should extend its form of law and order across the globe and back it at gunpoint. Wertheim argues that no one favored “isolationism”―a term introduced by advocates of armed supremacy in order to turn their own cause into the definition of a new “internationalism.”

We now live, Wertheim warns, in the world that these men created. A sophisticated and impassioned narrative that questions the wisdom of U.S. supremacy, Tomorrow, the Worldreveals the intellectual path that brought us to today’s global entanglements and endless wars.

LAST WEEK’S QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

What in the World? Quiz – Week of January 31-February 6, 2022

1. Ukraine’s economy is being put at risk by talk of a potential Russian attack according to THIS President of Ukraine. He called on the West to stop creating panic over Russia’s troop buildup at Ukraine’s borders. (#WACquiz)

A. Victor Orban
B. Volodymyr Zelensky
C. Andrzej Duda
D. Viktor Yushchenko

Correct Response: B. Volodymyr Zelensky
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60174684

2. NATO and EU unity in the face of Russia’s threat against Ukraine has been tarnished by the weak response of THIS country. Elements in the ruling coalition have a history of Cold War rapprochement with Moscow and roots in the peace movement. (#WACquiz)

A. Poland
B. Germany
C. Netherlands
D. Denmark

Correct Response: B. Germany
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/1/31/ukraine-crisis-questions-germanys-stance-towards-russia

3. U.S. military forces fought alongside Kurdish-militia fighters at a prison in Hasaka, Syria being held by THIS group. It had previously captured large swaths of Iraq and Syria before being displaced from its “Caliphate” by a U.S.-led coalition. (#WACquiz)

A. Al Qaeda
B. ISIS
C. SDF
D. Al Nusra

Correct Response: B. ISIS
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/29/world/middleeast/isis-syria-iraq.html

4. The Foreign Secretary of THIS NATO nation, a long-time financial hub for Russian oligarchs, threatened severe sanctions against Moscow should it attack Ukraine saying there will be “nowhere to hide … for any company of interest to the Kremlin and the regime in Russia.” (#WACquiz)

A. Germany
B. United Kingdom
C. Italy
D. Austria

Correct Response: B. United Kingdom
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/30/world/europe/britain-russia-ukraine-sanctions-nato.html

5. The highest number of Covid infections in 18 months has been reported in and around Beijing as China prepares for the opening of the Winter Olympic Games. To deal with the pandemic China has adopted THIS national policy. (#WACquiz)

A. “Closed-loop-bubble”
B. “Zero-Covid”
C. “Community-lockdown”
D. “Universal-testing”

Correct Response: B. “Zero-Covid”
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-60187630

6. The “Freedom Convoy” truckers, protesting THIS, ran amok in Ottawa, as they caused mayhem around the city including desecrating the tomb of the unknown soldier, driving Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau and family from their home for security reasons, and “threatening/illegal/intimidating behavior to police/city workers and other individuals.”

A. Cross border vaccine mandates
B. Increased cost of diesel fuel
C. Salary cuts due to supply chain delays
D. Failure to pass highway improvement budget

Correct Response: A. Cross border vaccine mandates
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60190452

7. The Libre party of Xiomara Castro, THIS country’s first female president, split in parliament over the naming of Speaker. The division may stall her agenda of fighting corruption and restoring democracy, and may stymie Biden Administration’s hopes of cutting migration from this Central American nation. (#WACquiz)

A. Guatemala
B. Honduras
C. Nicaragua
D. El Salvador

Correct Response: B. Honduras
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/world/americas/honduras-castro-congress-rebellion.html

8. Europeans are justifiably worried that a Russian attack on Ukraine and Western sanctions could lead Moscow to shut off gas supplies. THIS country is most vulnerable as Europe’s largest gas consumer — Russia supplying over half its supplies — and dependent on gas after shutting down coal fired and nuclear powered generating plants. (WACA WWNU)

A. France
B. Belgium
C. Germany
D. Poland

Correct Response: C. Germany
https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/01/29/how-will-europe-cope-if-russia-cuts-off-its-gas

9. The UN Secretary General warned the “entire [Afghan] complex social and economic system is shutting down” and the UN reported more than 100 former government officials, security force members and people who worked with the military coalition at the hands of THIS group that took power in August. (#WACquiz)

A. ISIS-K
B. Taliban
C. Caliphate of Khoransar
D. Hazaras

Correct Response: B. Taliban
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/un-report-says-taliban-killed-have-killed-scores-former-afghan-officials-others-2022-01-30/

10. Marchers took to the streets in Londonderry and Ireland’s Foreign Minister said there should be a “route to justice” for the 13 Catholic protesters killed by British soldiers 50 years ago on January 30th that touched off decades of sectarian conflict. The event, known as THIS, was determined by the UK Government in 2010 to be “unjustified” but British prosecutors have said the only soldier charged will not be tried. (#WACquiz)

A. Bloody Sunday
B. Derry Day
C. Sinn Féin Revolt Day
D. Bealtaine Day

Correct Response: A. Bloody Sunday
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ireland-calls-justice-50th-anniversary-bloody-sunday-2022-01-30/

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