Question: What happened to the income gap between the rich and the poor?
Answer: the gulf between the world's rich and poor grew wider

Question: What did the media industry make possible in the middle of the century?
Answer: brutal dictatorships

Question: What did the brutal dictatorships caused by the media lead to?
Answer: wars

Question: What did increased communications lead contribute to?
Answer: democratization

Question: What time period did technological advances lead to?
Answer: the Information Age

Question: what did the Soviet Union annex some of it's territory as?
Answer: Soviet Socialist Republics

Question: What did the territory the Soviet Union maintained as satellite states, later became known as?
Answer: the Warsaw Pact

Question: The United States and many Western countries began what policy to fight communism?
Answer: "containment"

Question: What did the soviets opposed rebuilding?
Answer: rebuilding of western Europe

Question: What actions of the Soviet Union did The United States oppose?
Answer: the Soviet Union fostered communist revolutionary movements,

Question: Through what time period did the Berlin Blockade  last?
Answer: 1948–1949

Question: What types of periods did the cold war see?
Answer: heightened tension and relative calm.

Question: Through what time period did the Korean War last?
Answer: 1950–1953)

Question: Through what time period did the Vietnam war last?
Answer: 1959–1975

Question: When did the Cuban Missile crisis happen?
Answer: 1962

Question: During what time was the cold war close to happening?
Answer: 1980s and the early 1990s

Question: What did  the Reagan administration increase on the Soviet Union?
Answer: diplomatic, military, and economic pressure

Question: What was  the Soviet Union suffering from in the 1980's?
Answer: severe economic stagnation

Question: What did Mikhail Gorbachev introduce?
Answer: introduced the perestroika and glasnost reforms.

Question: In what year did the Soviet Union collapse?
Answer: 1991

Question: What caused Latin America's right-wing authorities to support coup o'etats?
Answer: in the 1970s, leftists acquired a significant political influence

Question: Why did the Latin Americas Upper class support coup o'etats?
Answer: to avoid what they perceived as a communist threat.

Question: The regimes in the southern cone collaborated in killing of who?
Answer: leftist dissidents

Question: What did all countries restore in the 1990's 
Answer: their democracies.

Question: Where did the United States support dictatorships in the 1970"s?
Answer: South American countries

Question: What is the space age?
Answer: a period encompassing the activities related to the Space Race, space exploration, space technology, and the cultural developments influenced by these events.

Question: Who launched  Sputnik 1?
Answer: the Soviet Union.

Question: How long does did it take for the Sputnik 1 to orbit the earth?
Answer: 98.1 minutes

Question: What did Sputnik 1 usher in?
Answer: The Space Age

Question: How many people watched the Apollo 11 landing?
Answer: 500 million

Question: What types of control are considered when labeling a country with the perjorative "51st state" label?
Answer: excessive American cultural or military influence or control

Question: Sometimes, when a country refers to themselves as the 51st state, what has happened to their culture?
Answer: their local or national culture has become too Americanized

Question: What reasoning would cause a country to be referred to as the "51st state" in a positive way?
Answer: a region or territory is so aligned, supportive, and conducive with the United States, that it is like a U.S. state

Question: What is a positive connotation of the label "51st state"?
Answer: a region or territory is so aligned, supportive, and conducive with the United States

Question: What is a reason for one negative connotation of the term?
Answer: an area or region is perceived to be under excessive American cultural or military influence or control

Question: If a country refers to themselves as the "51st state" after cultural changes, what can we assume has changed?
Answer: their local or national culture has become too Americanized

Question: What does Article IV, Section three of the US Constitution outline?
Answer: the relationship among the states

Question: Article IV, Section Three of th United States Constitution gives Congress the power to do what?
Answer: the power to admit new states to the union

Question: What does the states' requirement to give "full faith and credit" help recognize?
Answer: legal contracts, marriages, and criminal judgments

Question: What are all states guaranteed by the federal government?
Answer: military and civil defense

Question: What does Article 4, Section 4 guarantee?
Answer: guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government

Question: What part of the US Constitution outlines the relationship among the states?
Answer: Article IV, Section Three

Question: What does the concept of "full faith and credit" protect?
Answer: the recognition of legal contracts, marriages, and criminal judgments

Question: Article IV, Section Three allows Congress to do what?
Answer: admit new states to the union

Question: What is guaranteed to the states by the federal government?
Answer: military and civil defense

Question: What country has been regarded as a potential new addition to the United States?
Answer: Puerto Rico has been discussed as a potential 51st state of the United States

Question: What percentage of voters expressed dissatisfaction with their current political relationship?
Answer: 54%

Question: What percentage of voters supported statehood?
Answer: 61%

Question: When did Puerto Rico resolve to request that the United States act on these results?
Answer: December 11, 2012

Question: What would be an ideal reaction from the United States, according to Puerto Rico?
Answer: end the current form of territorial status and begin the process of admitting Puerto Rico to the Union as a state

Question: What territory has been suggested as a new addition to the United States?
Answer: Puerto Rico

Question: What percentages of voters expressed unhappiness with the current political relationship between the U.S. and Puerto Rico?
Answer: 54%

Question: When did the legislature of Puerto Rico request that they be considered for statehood?
Answer: December 11, 2012

Question: How long has Puerto Rico had representation in Congress?
Answer: Since 1898

Question: Who represents Puerto Rico in Congress?
Answer: a Resident Commissioner

Question: Which Congress gave the commissioner the power to vote?
Answer: The 110th Congress

Question: What is the commissioner not allowed to vote on?
Answer: on matters where the vote would represent a decisive participation

Question: What types of taxes do Puerto Ricans pay?
Answer: U.S. federal taxes

Question: What makes up the federal taxes Puerto Rican citizens pay?
Answer: import/export taxes, federal commodity taxes, social security taxes

Question: How else can they serve the U.S.?
Answer: Puerto Ricans may enlist in the U.S. military.

Question: How many Puerto Ricans have died in the Iraq War and War in Afghanistan?
Answer: 52

Question: In the aftermath of which war was the U.S. granted Puerto Rico?
Answer: Spanish–American War

Question: What country handed over Puerto Rico to the US?
Answer: Spain

Question: How long have Puerto Ricans been U.S. citizens?
Answer: since 1917

Question: What form of government do the Puerto Ricans have?
Answer: republican

Question: How was the Puerto Rican constitution brought about?
Answer: the U.S. Congress directed local government to organize a constitutional convention to write the Puerto Rico Constitution

Question: When was the Puerto Rican constitution written?
Answer: 1951

Question: When was the constitution accepted by the electorate, U.S. Congress, and U.S. President?
Answer: 1952