Time-space compression is:

A. capitalism’s insatiable requirement for new markets and profits, which lead inevitably to the globalization of economic activity
B. a shared ecology involving shared en environmental problems, from global warming to species protection, alongside the creation of multilateral responses and regimes of global environmental governance
C. central to any account of globalization since it is a truism that without modern communications infrastructures, in particular, a global system or worldwide economy not be possible
D. the technologically induced erosion of distance and time giving the appearance a world that is in communication terms shrinking

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The ‘Outer Space Treaty’ forbids the placing of nuclear weapons or any other weapons of mass destruction on celestial bodies and into outer space in general, was signed in:
A. 1967
B. 1965
C. 1965
D. 1966
Outer space:
A. is considered to be international territory, like oceans
B. can be “claimed” as territory by any state
C. can be militarized
D. is defined by international law as airspace beginning at 40,000 feet above sea level
Which of the following is NOT among the countries that either have or will soon have military capabilities in space?
A. the United States
B. China
C. Russia
D. Great Britain
In 1986 US solar system probe voyager-2 discovered six new moons of the planet Uranus. Which space shuttle exploded after launching, killing all the seven passengers in 1986?
A. US space shuttle challenger
B. USSR space shuttle challenger
C. German space shuttle challenger
D. French space shuttle challenger
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the building of the Berlin Wall:
A. were crises during the post-Cold War
B. were crises that ted to World War II
C. were crises that followed the Vietnam War
D. were crises during the Cold
The foreign policy adopted by the United States in the early years of the Cold War to stop the expansion of the Soviet Union was known as:
A. the Marshall Plan
B. containment
C. mutual assured destruction
D. peaceful coexistence
NATO’s first-ever military engagement occurred in 1995 in:
A. Bosnia
B. Croatia
C. Serbia
D. Czechoslovakia
How did the Korean War affect the overall Cold War?
A. It cemented communist military control over Southeast Asia
B. It sparked a thaw in relations between the Soviet Union and China
C. It hardened overall American attitudes toward communism
D. It sparked a thaw in relations between China and the United States
The second wave (1850-1945):
A. defined a new age in world history so today the microchip and the satellite are icons of a globalized world order
B. evidenced a major expansion in the spread and entrenchment of European empires
C. saw the expansion of transnational and international law from trade to human rights
D. saw the establishment of the international Convention on the Elimination of Child Labour
The international Convention on the Elimination of Child Labour.
A. was a result of countries appearing as autonomous containers of political, social and economic activity in that fixed borders separate the domestic sphere form the world outside
B. represents a process in which the organization of social activities is increasingly less constrained by geographical proximity and national territorial boundaries
C. involves a complex mix of homogenization and increased heterogeneity given the global diffusion of popular culture, global media corporations, and communications networks
D. was the product of a complex politics involving public and private actors form trade unions, industrial associations, humanitarian groups, governments, and legal experts