Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: US Hegemony in World Politics

Question:

Match the following PLACES mentioned in List I correctly with the Description in List II:

List- I

List- II

(A) Guantanamo Bay

(I) Attacked by Japan in 1941

(B) Pearl Harbor

(II) Kenya

(C) Dar-es-Salaam

(III) US naval base in Cuba

(D) Nairobi

(IV) Tanzania

Options:

(A)- II, (B)- I, (C)- IV, (D)- III

(A)- III, (B)- IV, (C)- I, (D)- II

(A)- III, (B)- I, (C)- IV, (D)- II

(A)- III, (B)- I, (C)- II, (D)- IV

Correct Answer:

(A)- III, (B)- I, (C)- IV, (D)- II

Explanation:

Another significant US military action during the Clinton years was in response to the bombing of the US embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania in 1998. These bombings were attributed to Al-Qaeda, a terrorist organisation strongly influenced by extremist Islamist ideas. Within a few days of this bombing, President Clinton ordered Operation Infinite Reach, a series of cruise missile strikes on Al-Qaeda terrorist targets in Sudan and Afghanistan. The US did not bother about the UN sanction or provisions of international law in this regard. It was alleged that some of the targets were civilian facilities unconnected to terrorism. In retrospect, this was merely the beginning.

The 9/11 attacks killed nearly three thousand persons. In terms of their shocking effect on Americans, they have been compared to the British burning of Washington, DC in 1814 and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941.

The US forces made arrests all over the world, often without the knowledge of the government of the persons being arrested, transported these persons across countries and detained them in secret prisons. Some of them were brought to Guantanamo Bay, a US Naval base in Cuba, where the prisoners did not enjoy the protection of international law or the law of their own country or that of the US. Even the UN representatives were not allowed to meet these prisoners.