“What in the World? Weekly Quiz” | Feb 28-Mar 6, 2022

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LAST WEEK’S QUIZ WINNERS

David Hillinck, Hunstville, AL
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FEBRUARY 2022 QUIZ PRIZE

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.

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1. On Friday President Biden said he believed President Putin had decided to invade Ukraine and would attack its capital, THIS city of 2.8 million people.

A. Odessa
B. Yalta
C. Lviv
D. Kyiv

Correct Response: D. Kyiv
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/18/world/russia-ukraine-biden-putin

2. Leaders in THIS eastern region of Ukraine, consisting of unrecognized separatist states Donetsk and Luhansk, called for full military mobilization and ordered evacuation of women and children to nearby Russian territory in advance of conflict.

A. Donbas
B. Crimea
C. Kharkiv
D. Lviv

Correct Response: A. Donbas
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/separatist-leaders-eastern-ukraine-declare-full-military-mobilisation-2022-02-19/

3. Vice President Harris, Defense Secretary Austin and Secretary of State Blinken met with global leaders at THIS annual international security meeting. Ukrainian President Zelensky also attended.

A. London Global Strategy Summit
B. Davos
C. Association of OSCE Leaders
D. Munich Security Conference

Correct Response: D. Munich Security Conference
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-vp-harris-will-meet-ukraines-zelenskiy-urge-putin-pull-back-2022-02-19/

4. Russian troops are massed on three sides of Ukraine including forces on its western border in THIS former Soviet Republic.

A. Moldova
B. Donetsk
C. Romania
D. Chechnya

Correct Response: A. Moldova
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/02/18/world/russia-ukraine-biden-putin

5. Russia has sent over 30,000 troops, warplanes, ballistic missiles and special forces to THIS neighboring country that lies on Ukraine’s northern border. Its territory is closest to routes into Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.

A. Poland
B. Belarus
C. Estonia
D. Moldova

Correct Response: B. Belarus
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/18/putin-lukashenko-actively-take-part-strategic-nuclear-drill-belarus-president-russian-ballistic-cruise-missile-launched

6. Moscow ordered strategic nuclear weapon exercises to increase crisis pressure on Ukraine and the West. Russia’s and the United States’ nuclear forces are constrained by the “Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms” agreement, known as THIS, which was extended for five years in February 2021.

A. SALT
B. New START
C. INF
D. BMD Treaty

Correct Response: B. New START
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/shelling-breaks-out-east-ukraine-west-moscow-dispute-troop-moves-2022-02-17/

7. The United States has accused Russia of preparing provocative measures in Ukraine to justify an invasion. Such activities are commonly known as THIS.

A. Fifth column measures
B. False flag operations
C. Special forces operations
D. Social Provocateurs

Correct Response: B. False flag operations
https://www.axios.com/telegram-ukraine-russia-separatists-evacuation-23c418ef-cd60-4ab7-afdf-6f3260102a4a.html

8. Mass protests in Ukraine known as THIS color revolution in 2004 overturned a rigged presidential election and resulted in installation of Viktor Yushchenko as President.

A. Orange
B. Red
C. Blue
D. White

Correct Response: A. Orange
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/russia-and-ukraine-the-tangled-history-that-connects-and-divides-them

9. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine’s “independence, sovereignty and the existing borders” were to be respected by Russia, the U.S. and the UK in accord with the “Budapest Memorandum” in exchange for Ukraine doing THIS.

A. Give up its ICBMs, nuclear warheads and infrastructure
B. Assure Russia continued access to the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol
C. Forswear future affiliation with the European Union
D. Allow dual-citizenship for Russian speaking minorities in Eastern Ukraine

Correct Response: A. Give up its ICBMs, nuclear warheads and infrastructure
https://www.npr.org/2022/02/12/1080205477/history-ukraine-russia

10. The President of Belarus has said he will accept Russian nuclear weapons on his territory to “defend our country.” THIS leader was to accompany Russian President Putin in observing strategic nuclear drills over the weekend.

A. Xavier Espot
B. Alexander Lukashenko
C. Roman Golovchenko
D. Kiril Petkov

Correct Response: B. Alexander Lukashenko
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/18/putin-lukashenko-actively-take-part-strategic-nuclear-drill-belarus-president-russian-ballistic-cruise-missile-launched

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