American history

1.According to your text, what Central American problem is amongst the worst in the world? What specific country is singled out by name in your text? What statistics are provided by your text in discussing this problem? What is the source of these statistics? 2. According to your text and class lectures, did the US cause Central America's crime problem? Did residents of the area say the U.S. was to blame for the problem discussed in question one, above? What reasons did persons affected by the problem give as reasons for the problem? What source does your text cite for the data and information it presents on this problem? 3.According to your text and class lectures, what has been the US political and economic involvement in Central America and what role has United Fruit played in this involvement? According to your text has the Roman Catholic Church played a role? If it has, what detail does your text provide to illustrate this role? Please explain your answer in detail. 4.According to your text, what role did the U.S. play in the Salvadoran war, especially after Ronald Reagan became president in 1981? How did President Jimmy Carter affect this role? What was the name of the group led by Daniel Ortega? What was this group’s relationship to the policies of President Reagan? 5. According to class lectures, how has Ukraine been caught in the middle of a political contest between Russia and the US in eastern Europe? What does this contest have to do with and what role does U.S. interventionism overseas, play? Who is at fault in eastern Europe and why? 6.According to your text, what Central American country has escaped the grip of this problem (discussed in questions 1-4 above)? How did it manage to escape? And what statistics does your textbook offer to answer this question? 7.According to your textbook, how has Mara Salvatrucha effected Jose? What did they do to Jose? Where is Jose’s home today? During class lectures, what US city was identified as having problems similar to those discussed in questions 1-4, above? 8.Although President Trump recently describes efforts to stop “bad dudes” and “bad hombres” from entering the US from Mexico identified as rapist, murderers and drug dealers, what contradictory evidence is provided by a photo of an immigrant who was arrested trying to enter the US from Mexico and its associated caption that tells a very different story? What detailed information does your text provide that contradicts the President’s allegation? 9.According to your textbook, what did smugglers do to Said and where did this happen? What country was 16-year-old Said from and what country did he try to reach? What ultimately happened to Said and where did it happen? 10.What does your textbook, identify as the world’s worse refugee crisis since WW II? According to your text, how many refugees “crossed the Mediterranean into Europe last year”? 11.What simple solution to the problem discussed in question 1 is offered by your textbook? Is there a single simple solution to the problem? 12.What push and pull factors were discussed in class as reasons for the problem discussed in question 10 above? 13.According to your textbook what is the Schengen area and what does it allow travelers to do? According to your text and class lectures, will travelers be allowed to continue without any changes after passage of Brexit? Will travelers in other countries who follow the example of Brexit in the U.K. be able to this? Please explain why? 14.According to your textbook, what did Hungary’s President announce his country would do in response to the crisis discussed in question 10, above? Name at least two other countries in the world today that have either announced or adopted similar plans in response to the crisis? Have these announced plans increased or decreased the conflict described in question 10? 15.According to your text, what immigrants to Britain have replaced immigrants from India and Africa? How is Brexit likely to affect this trend? Is Brexit a significant or insignificant factor related to this trend? 16. According to class lectures, what do U.S. intelligence agencies including the CIA accuse Russia of doing to the US in 2016-17? What has been the reaction of Presidents Obama and Trump to these allegations? Is this controversy over yet? If it is not, please explain why? 17What country described in your textbook, placed 407 Muslims under house arrest under emergency powers declared by its President since November 2015 for suspicion of terrorism and what action was undertaken by this government in 41related cases? What does your text say about the political climate within which these actions occurred? Were these actions seemingly random according to your text? Was this country the only one to witness such an occurrence? Has the US witnessed anything like this? 18. According to your text, what is the name of the Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate in West Africa? According to class lectures, how many people were recently reported killed by this affiliate group over the past six and one half years? What country is this affiliate terrorist group based-in? What is this affiliated terrorist group: is it a Sunni, Shia or Sufi Muslim group? 19. According to class lectures, how has this controversy discussed in question 16, above, effected government officials linked to President Trump? Explain your answer in detail and provide examples. 20. What parable offered by Dr. Fazlur Rahman of The University of Chicago was described in class? How does this parable relate to recent controversies in the War on Terror? According to class lectures, describe the meaning of the expression: “failure is an orphan but success has a thousand fathers." 21. What references to the Bible and Qur'an regarding the matter of human free will were mentioned in class in connection with question 20, above? What implications do these references raise regarding human free will? What implications do they raise regarding our ability to blame U.S. Presidents for political outcomes witnessed in Iraq and with the emergence of ISIS in 2014? 22. America is engaged in a war of survival in Scheuer's view, a conflict in which the choices are between what two things _________________? 23. According to Michael Scheuer, from the perspective of the US, "the enemy's most important motivation" is what? How does Scheuer explain his answer? Would Scheuer agree with the often repeated statement in the West that the terrorist hate us for our freedoms and democracy? Why? Please explain your answer. 24. In light of the above, what does Scheuer believe the US should do? Please explain your answer in detail. 25. According to Scheuer, the US cannot win if it relies entirely on what two tools at its disposal? Explain Scheuer’s answer in detail. 26.Scheuer's YouTube talk according to his own description has a decidedly ___________ edge? What official in the US government is best known for having this same edge (like that of Michael Scheuer)? Why? Explain your answer. 27.According to Michael Scheuer, what is the greatest gift from the US to the terrorists? 28. What recent example of this greatest gift to the terrorists from the U.S. described in question 27, was identified in class lectures? 29.What does your textbook say about opiate and cocaine markets? According to your textbook, what country became the largest source of legally produced opiates and cocaine? How does your textbook describe how this situation came about? Is the country identified by your textbook the only country that struggles with this problem? Please explain. 30. What widely recognized U.S. company is described by your textbook as agreeing to pay $16.6 billion to settle a U.S. Justice department legal charge? What is the name of this company? What crime was this company charged with? And what does your textbook say about proving criminal intent in this and similar such cases? 31. According to your textbook, what did Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogazin say on a 2013 visit to neighboring Moldova? What does your textbook say about relations between Russia and its neighbors and why did the Russian Deputy Prime Minister say what he did in Moldova? 32. According to class lectures, what is the motivation behind the expression, resurgent Russia? What is the background behind resurgent Russia? Who is currently leading it? And what are some concrete illustrations of resurgence Russia? 33. What does the expression "Reset" with Russia mean and how has this ambitious goal by the Bush, Obama and Trump presidential administrations turned out in the end? According to class lectures, has the reset with Russia succeeded or failed? Explain your answer.