Test: US Hegemony In World Politics- 1 - UPSC MCQ

USA was a colony of Britain. In 1776, American colonies of Britain revolted against the foreign rule with the army under the command of George Washington. Americans defeated the British to win their freedom.

Hegemony is the term originated from Greek society, according to which one group dominates the rest of groups in a society and runs the society according to its own will.

USA and more than forty counties invaded Iraq after the UN refused to give its mandate to the invasion.

The US Hegemony began in 1991 after the disintegration of Soviet and the world became unipolar.

The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated suicide attacks by Al-Qaeda upon the United States of America. On that morning, 19 Al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airlines. These hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in the New York City, killing everyone on board and many other people working in the buildings.

It is the ability to persuade rather than to coerce.

Pentagon is the headquarter of the United States Department of Defence, located in Arlington, Virginia.

It is situated at the University of Pennsylvania, established in 1881.

C is the correct option.The 1998 United States embassy bombings were attacks that occurred on August 7, 1998.
Deaths: 224 (213 in Nairobi, 11 in Dar es Salaam)
Location: Nairobi, Kenya; “Dar es Salaam”
Perpetrators: al-Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad
 

Cold War was an outcome of the emergence of US and USSR as two superpowers, rivals of each other for hegemony over world. The disintegration of USSR in 1991 ended the Cold War.