Foreign Service Officer Test - World Affairs| 585 QUESTIONS| WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

"Let one hundred flowers bloom" Correct Answer: Chairman Mao Zedong's "Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend". This slogan was used during the period of approximately six weeks in the summer of 1957 when the Chinese intelligentsia were invited to criticize the political system then obtaining in Communist China. It is sometimes suggested that the initiative was a deliberate attempt to flush out dissidents by encouraging them to show themselves as critical of the regime. Whether or not it was a deliberate trap isn't clear but it is the case that many of those who put forward views that were unwelcome to Mao were executed. absolute majority Correct Answer: more than 50% of all votes cast accountability Correct Answer: the concept that government officials are responsible to and serve at the pleasure of constituents or elected officials (and that they may be removed from office by those electors or officials) adjudicate Correct Answer: to resolve a matter in dispute; when backed up by the authority of government the decision can be enforced adjudication Correct Answer: the legal process of deciding an issue through the courts Afghanistan and Bhutan Correct Answer: British buffer states for India agricultural sector Correct Answer: that part of a country's economy that is involved in the production of farm products airspace Correct Answer: The space above a state that is considered its territory, in contrast to outer space, which is considered international territory. alliance cohesion Correct Answer: the ease with which the members hold together an alliance; tends to be high when national interests converge & when cooperation among allies become institutionalized Ambalat Correct Answer: Indonesia & Malaysia dispute this oil-rich sea area America First Correct Answer: Founded in 1939 after Germany’s invasion of Poland, America First was an isolationist group that opposed U.S. involvement in World War II. Many prominent Americans were members, including aviator Charles Lindbergh. At its peak, America First had 800,000 members. The organization disbanded shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. American Convention on Human Rights Correct Answer: The American Convention on Human Rights, which entered into force in 1978, defines the human rights that the ratifying states of the Western Hemisphere have agreed to foster through the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an autonomous organ of the Or