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172 Cards in this Set
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Where was the no-fault system first began where?
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California
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What conformed divorce laws? |
Brown |
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When is fault used in divorce? |
For alimony and spouse support |
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What kind of relationship do you have when marriage is no-fault? |
Economic relationship |
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Is Same Sex marriage criminal? |
Yes |
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What is anything God said government can have laws against? |
crime |
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What was the first country that allowed same-sex marriage? |
Neverland |
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What was the act that stated man and woman equaled a marriage? |
Defense of Marriage Act |
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What was the first state that allowed for gay marriages? |
Vermont |
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What court case was tried to get the Boy Scouts to allow gay members into their club? |
Boy Scouts v. Dale |
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Who won the Boy Scouts v. Dale? |
Boy Scouts |
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In what court case struck down all laws against gays? |
Lorance v. Texas |
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Which court cased revisited DOMA and struck down DOMA? |
US v. Windsor |
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What court case had to do with Prop. 8 in California, prop. 8 got tossed? |
Hollingsworth v. Perry |
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What are the principles of Economics? |
1. Revelation 2. Justice and Law 3. Humanity 4. Property |
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What should apply to all equally? |
Justice and Law |
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What is property held publicly, not privately? |
Socialism |
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What is man is a steward is not owner? |
Environmentalism |
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What amendment state that private property cannot be taken for public use without just compensation? |
Fifth Amendment |
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What is the "taking clause"? |
eminent domain |
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What court case determined it was constitutional to use eminent domain to take land and give it to private developers? |
Kelo vs. City of New London |
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What law encouraged property being passed to oldest son? |
Law of Primogeniture |
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What law was concerned about keeping land intact and it couldn't be bought or sold? |
Laws of Entail |
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What court case gave a monopoly on sailboats on the Hudson river? |
Gibbon v. Ogman |
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What other types of monopolies are there? |
author/vendor Patent License
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What law prohibits business owner choice? |
Minimum wage |
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What is government raising revenue and spending? |
Fiscal Policy |
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Who are major factors in establishing the budget? |
Monetary policy |
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Who controls how much money is in circulation? |
Federal Reserve |
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Who issues T-Bills? |
Federal Reserve |
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Who controls the interest rates? |
Federal Reserve |
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What are interest rates mean? |
Fees bank pay to borrow money from Federal Reserve |
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Who buys T-Bills? |
large investment companies and other countries |
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What act allowed for congress to issue currency? |
Legal Tender Act |
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When was the first time congress issued paper money? |
During the Civil War |
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How much did Joseph tax the land? |
20% |
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What percentage did Israel have to pay in taxes? |
25% |
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How much was the temple tax? |
2 day pay |
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Was was a census tax by Romans that was paid every year? |
Poll taxes |
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What are the different types of taxes? |
1) Property tax 2) Income tax 3) Corporate income tax 3) Capital gains tax |
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What is a tax that you pay a percentage of the land worth? |
Property tax |
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What is considered the most hated tax? |
Property tax |
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What was the first state that adopted the property tax? |
Illinois |
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What law allowed you to pay less property tax on primary resident? |
Homestead law |
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What is the major source of revenue for federal government? |
Income tax |
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What was the historical type of revenue before income taxes? |
Tarrif |
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What amendment allowed the government to use income taxes? |
16th Amendment |
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What is a tax that taxes 35% of all profit of companies that exceed over $335,000? |
Corporate Income Tax |
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What was a tax on income that you earn in a investment? |
Capital Gains tax |
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Excessive regulation is counterproductive because...? |
1) It temps people to break the law 2) People don't know if they are following laws 3) Life becomes more complex |
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What is another way to tax people that avoids the stigma of taxes? |
Regulation |
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What was the first government to be a welfare state? |
Germany |
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Who established welfare in the UK? |
David Lloyd George |
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Who implemented the New Deal which was a package of social welfare into the USA? |
Roosevelt |
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Who was an economist who believed that during recession, government should go into debt and give money to families and individuals? |
J.M Keynes |
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Who introduced Medicare and Medicaid into the government making it a federal/state joint program? |
Lyndon Johnson |
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What is the percentage of the federal budget on health care, Social Security, and Medicare/Medicade? |
45% |
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What fraction of families get some sort of federal aid? |
1/3 |
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What is considered the third rail of American policy? |
Social Security |
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What is the age of retirement to get Social Security? |
67 years old |
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What is federal aid that is paid monthly by me and the employer? |
Medicare |
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Which type of federal aid does not need any qualifications? |
Medicare |
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What is the age of retirement for Medicare? |
65 years old |
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What was medical care for the poor? |
Medicade |
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What is the main source of money for retirement home/ nursing home? |
Medicade |
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What is a monthly premium and most people get it from employer? |
Health Insurance |
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Does businesses get tax benefits for offering health insurance? |
yes |
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What company owns all of the health care benefits and you go to their docs, nurses, and hospitals? |
HMO |
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Who believed sovereignty derives from God? |
Budan |
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Who says that people are considered sovereign and the people would give sovereignty? |
Thomas Hobbs |
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Who says that every state needs to have sovereignty? |
Blackstone |
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What are places of sovereignty? |
1) In a single ruler 2) In a government institution 3) With the people |
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What can sovereignty can/cannot do? |
1)It is not guarenteed to control everything 2) It need to maintain order 3) It has a final say on some things 4) They have a right to move in an unilateral way |
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What is the belief that you need to check with other nations? |
multilateral |
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Does United Nations compromise sovereignty? |
No |
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What organization tried war time criminals? |
ICC or International Crime Court |
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Does the ICC compromise sovereignty? |
yes |
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What is the belief that we need to be more intwined? |
Interdependence |
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What are 3 tools of foreign policy? |
1) Diplomacy 2) Sanctions 3) War |
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Who came up with 3 tools of foreign policy? |
Jesse Helms |
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What is a penalty attached to law that tries country not individuals? |
World Court |
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Does the World Court compromise sovereignty? |
No |
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What prohibts goods from entering or exiting country? |
embargo |
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What blocks imparts and block exports which could lead to war? |
Blockade |
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Should we be prepared to go to war whenever? |
yes |
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What is called when we attack first? |
preemptive war |
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What type of war can be used for defensive and offensive? |
Preemptive war |
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What kind of war mobilizes the whole society for the war? |
Total war |
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Who came up with the Just War principle? |
Thomas Aquinas |
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What are the just law principles? |
1) War had a just cause 2) Just intentions 3) It is a last resort 4) It would have a limited objective or specific goals |
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What was the first just war principle war? |
Gulf War |
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What are the Biblical principles of war? |
1) No rape 2) Must have some mercy 3) Don't magnify war |
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What doctrine states that countries that harbored terrorists are considered enemies as well? |
Bush Doctrine |
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Which countries are known to have harbored terrorists? |
Iran, Iraq and Korea |
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Who started the terrorists group Al-Kaeda? |
Ben Ladin |
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What is an Egyptian Muslim brotherhood that wanted to destry Israel? |
Hammash |
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What is a a party of Allah based out of Lebanon? Syria and Iran give support? |
Hesbulah |
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What is based in Egypt and is the oldest and biggest terrorist group? |
Muslim Brotherhood |
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Who said: "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations-entangling alliances with none." |
Thomas Jefferson |
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What is established in major city/ports and is home to traders to conduct trade/business? |
Consolate |
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Who is in charge of the consolate? |
Council General |
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What is headed by an ambassador and is considered US Soil abroad. If you attack it, it is an act of war? |
Embassy |
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Who was the first ambassador? |
Ben Franklin |
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Who followed Ben Franklin to be ambassador to France? |
Thomas Jefferson |
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Who was the first ambassador to Holland/UK? |
John Adams |
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What is the first institution established by God? |
Marriage |
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What scripture passage does the author use to support his position that Adam and Eve's marriage is a model marriage for us? |
Genesis 2:5 |
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Does the Bible prohibit polygamy? |
No |
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From what two ills should government protect spouses with marriage? |
Physical abuse and abandoment |
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In what type of divorce is the person "seeking the divorce not required to state any wrongdoing on the part of the spouse, so a person can get a divorce whenever he or she no longer wants to be married"? |
No-Fault divorce |
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What American state was the first to adopt no-fault divorce in 1970? |
California |
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Today (few,most, all) states have no-fault divorce? |
All states |
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What continent is noted for its failure to have a sufficient number of children to replace the next generation? |
Europe |
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What two government programs are the focus of the problems of US under population because there are not enough young workers to finance the elderly population that receive these programs? |
Social Security and Medicare |
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What European nation has been the recent focus of outlawing home schooling criminalizing parents who try to home school their children? |
German |
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What two commandments deal with property? |
8 and 10th Commandment |
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What does your author deem "the most dehumanizing economic system"? |
communism |
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What belief system has as its slogan "abolition of private property? |
Marxism |
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What country did economist Hernando de Soto do his study on the excessive regulation involved in starting a business or owning property? |
Peru |
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What have been some of the recent confiscations of property conducted by the government under the Obama Administration? |
Chrysler and General Motors |
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In what areas are some government regulations necessary in economics? |
Health and safety standards |
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What view makes "human freedom of choice their ultimate standard of good"? |
Libertarianism |
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True or False. Government has a role in doing well for people and not merely in protecting their freedom? |
True |
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In what type of economic system does the government own and control most of the business and factories? |
Socialist government |
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In what type of economic system does the government control not only the means of production, but also all property so that there is no private property? |
Communist government |
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What are the goods and services produced by the society? |
supply |
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What are goods and services wanted by the society? |
demand |
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In a free market, how is measurable value (price) assigned? |
By what people want |
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What health care law was passed by 2010 that turned much of American health care over to the government? |
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act |
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About what percentage of the population are financially unable to purchase health insurance? |
6.1% |
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What view hold that it is always wrong for Christians to use military force against others? |
pacifism |
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What OT king does the author use as an example of a ruler that both loved his people, but also used an army against them? |
David |
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What three historical examples are given to refute the claim that "violence begets more violence" and to support the claim that military power has been used to stop an agressor? |
World War II, Korean War, and Civil war |
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What six nations are examples of those that are occupied by evil rulers that would invade and conquer if they could get away with it? |
North Korea, Russia, Venezuela, China, Iran, and Cuba |
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What is the greatest threat to US security and the "most prominent military challenge today...? |
Islamic Jihadism |
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What treaty, signed by the US in 1949, contains a mutual pledge that each member will come to the aid of other members if they are attacked? |
NATO |
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What US foreign policy doctrine, issued in 1823, involves the US pledging to intervene should any European power seek to colonize any part of North or South America? |
Monroe Doctrine |
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What tow former presidents is President Obama mimicking in cutting defense spending? |
Clinton and Carter |
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What advanced jet fighter did President Obama promote having its budget cut? |
F-22 |
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What is "an international terrorist movement" that serves as the greatest military threat to the United States today? |
Islamci Jihadism |
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What are the groups given as examples of Islamic Jihadism? |
Al-Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Muslim Brotherhood |
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Who began the views that are common to Islamic terrorists today? |
Al Qaeda |
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Recently, who has been the most influential writer to advance Islamic Jihadism? |
Sayyid Qutb |
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Who was the Egyptian president that was assassinated in 1981? |
Nasser |
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Who was the Egyptian that was closely involved with the assassin of Anwar Sadat, defending it publically? |
Zawhairi |
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Who was the wealthy Saudi Jihadist that went to Afghanistan to drive out the Soviets and later formed al-Qaeda in 1988? |
Bin Laden |
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How many Muslim attacks were there from 1993 to 9-11? |
six |
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What countries are given as examples of those that tried to appease the terrorists groups in their nation? |
Saudi Arabia and Egypt |
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What group has spearheaded the attack against the "warrantless wiretaps"? |
American Civil Liberties Union |
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What three groups are mentioned as being the most instrumental in implementing the Bush Doctrine in confronting terrorists threats? |
FBI, CIA, and the military |
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What test does Sharansky maintain a nation must pass before it can be considered a genuine democracy? |
The Town Square Act |
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What countries does your author list to counter the argument that functioning democracies cannot exist with Muslim nations? |
Iraq, Afghanistan. and Turkey |
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Your author agrees/disagrees with Jim Wallis that opposition to the War in Iraq was the dominant evangelical Protestant position? |
Disagrees |
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What tow cities in Japan have been the only cities where a nuclear device has been detonated during war? |
Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
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How many American lives did Harry Truman estimate would be saved by the dropping of the atomic bomb? |
500,000 American lives saved |
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What are the three methods that can be employed to deliver a nuclear weapon? |
bombers, missiles, and submarines |
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How many nations are on record as having nuclear weapon capability? |
nine |
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What nation is believed to have nuclear weapons, but has never confirmed it? |
Israel |
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What two historical examples does your author cite to support his argument that world-wide nuclear disarmament is impossible because "once new weapons are developed, they never disappear from the earth? |
Cold War and Hague Convention |
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What is the primary mode of transportation of goods nationwide? |
waterways |
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What modern nation's waters are subject to piracy because of the lack of an effective government to police the activities of the pirates? |
Somalia |
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About what fraction of money flowing into developing nations comes from the US? |
1/3rd |
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What radio broadcast has traditionally informed the world about American society and US policy? |
Voice of America |
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Under which two kings of Israel did that nation enjoy its greatest expansion of territory? |
David and Solomon |
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There (has, has never) been a time when an independent "Palestinian" nation occupied the land of Israel |
Has never |
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The Arab residence of Palestine (accepted, rejected) the 1947 UN Resolution 181 which called for the creation of an Israeli and Arab nation within Palestine |
rejected |
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What was the name of the 1917 British Declaration that called for the creation of a Jewish homeland and nation within Palestine? |
Balfour Declaration |
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In what year did Israel declare independence? |
1948 |
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What were the five Arab countries that warred against the Jews in Palestine about a year before the Jews in Palestine declared independence? |
Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq |
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What are the only two Arab nations that have a peace treaty with Israel? |
Egypt and Jordan |
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Who took over occupation of the Gaza Strip in 1948? |
Egypt |
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Who seized control of the Gaza Strip after the Six-Day War of 1967? |
Israel |
