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51 Cards in this Set
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What is Globalization?
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the increasing interconnectedness
and interdependence of different parts of the world through common exchanges of a wide range of experiences such as ideas, cultures, trade etc. |
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How did Globalization start?
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Conquest, Prosperity,Proselytizing, Curiosity and wanderlust.
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Major agents of Globalization?
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adventurers, preachers, soldiers, traders
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Earliest established trade route?
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The Silk Road. Spanned from Mongolia all the way to Turkey.
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What is Interdependence?
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The crisscross of global space. When one country relies on another. Mutual dependence.
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What are Commodity Chains?
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networks of labor and production processes that originate in the extraction or production of raw materials and end with the delivery and consumption of a finished commodity. EX: The materials to make a pair of jeans comes from all over the globe.
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What are the Key Issues of Globalization?
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H.E.L.P.T.C.S.S
Health, environment, labor, politics, trade, culture, science/technology, security. |
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What is a Free Trade zone?
Are they good and where are they usually located? |
Free Trade Zones are where there are no set trade barriers. People can trade whatever and however they want.
Usually found in developing countries they can cause bidding wars between governments in many of the countries they trade with. No good. |
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What is the Kyoto Protocol? What is the U.S. status with it?
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This is a treaty between the United Nations that is intended to achieve stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The US has to have 7% reductions.
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1. Number of current member states to the UN.
2. Name the newest member state. 3. Who is the current Secretary-General of the UN? 4. How many member states is the Security Council made up of? 5. Name the permanent members of the Security Council. |
1. 192.
2. The Republic of Montenegro joined as the newest member in 2006. 3. Ban Ki-Moon from South Korea. 4. 15. (5 permanent and 10 non-permanent) 5. China, France, Russia, UK and US |
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What is a World System?
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An interdependent system of states (countries) linked by political and economical competition and cooperation.
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What is a State?
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States are independent political units with boundaries that are internationally recognized by other states.
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What are Supranational Organizations?
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A collection of individual states with a common goal that may be economical or political that may dissolve the individual power in favor of the group interests of the membership.
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World systems are defined by what three divisions?
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Core, semi-periphery and periphery
regions |
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What is a Core division?
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These dominate trade, controls the most advanced technologies and has the highest level of productivities within diversified economies
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What is a semi-periphery division?
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These exploit periphery regions but they themselves are controlled and dominated by center regions
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What is a periphery division?
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These have underdeveloped or narrowly specialized economies with low levels of productivity.
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Name the four different activities that world systems have.
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P.S.T.Q.
Primary: Anything concerned directly with natural resources (agriculture, fishing, mining etc.) Secondary: Anything concerned with manufacturing or processing ( steel-making, textile manufacturing, food processing) Tertiary: anything that involves sale and exchange of goods (retail stores, entertainment) Quaternary: deal with handling and processing knowledge and information (data processing, education, research) |
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What is a mini system?
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A single cultural base and a reciprocal social economy.
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What are Hearth Areas?
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Geographic settings where new practices have developed and have then been spread.
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What are World Empires?
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A group of mini systems that have been absorbed under one common political system while keeping their fundamental cultural differences intact.
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What was the logic of Colonization?
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Economic gain and greed.
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What was the outcome of Colonization? Describe what is it.
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The outcome was an International Division of Labor. Division of labor involved the specialization of different people, regions, and countries in certain kinds of economic activities.
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What two major interventions stimulated the International Division of Labor?
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Steam ships and telegraph communications.
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What is Neocolonialism?
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Economic and political strategies by which powerful states in core economies indirectly maintain or extend their influence over other areas or people.
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What is the major difference between Colonialism and Neocolonialism?
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Colonialism was the DIRECT rule of the core over the periphery,
Neocolonialism is the influence of the core to the periphery through things like trade activities and financial regulations. |
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What is the Schengen Agreement and what are the Countries?
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This was a treaty in which all of the countries involved would remove systematic borders. The treaty consists of 25 European countries and all of them except Norway, Iceland and Switzerland.
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What are the 6 European Sub regions?
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B.C. Triple S W
British Isles, Central Euro, South Eastern Euro,Southern Euro, Scandinavia, and Western Euro |
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Which states belong to the British Isles?
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UK and Ireland
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Which states belong to Central Euro?
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Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary
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Which states belong to Southern Euro?
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Portugal, Spain, Andorra, Italy, Malta, San Marino, and Vatican City
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Which states belong to South Eastern Euro?
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Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and
Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, and the European part of Turkey |
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Which states belong to Scandinavia?
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Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Denmark
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Which states belong to Western Euro?
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France, Monaco and the Benelux countries: BElgium, the NEtherlands, and LUXembourg
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Who was the founding member of the EU?
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France
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Why are the years 1955, 1958, 1965 and 1975 important to the Benelux countries?
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1955= The Benelux Parliament
1958= Benelux economic Union 1965, 1975= Benelux Court of Justice |
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What was the first industrialized country?
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The United Kingdom
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What country spilt into East and West parts after WWII but then reunified after the fall of the Soviet Union?
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Germany
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What are the spoken languages of Switzerland?
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German, Italian, French and Romansch
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Know these important dates of Czecho/slovakia
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1918: A union of the Czech lands and Slovakia
1939: German troops occupied Czechoslovakia 1945: The former government returned in April 1945 and the country's pre-1938 boundaries were restored. 1946: Communists became the dominant political party 1989: “velvet revolution” 1991: A strong Slovak nationalist movement which sought independence for Slovakia. 1993: the Czechoslovakian federation was dissolved and two separate independent countries- the Czech Republic and Slovakia. |
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Know these important dates about Yugoslavia and its dissolution
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• 1941:German invasion
• 1945: Yugoslavia becomes a communist republic. • 1974: A revised Yugoslav constitution grants autonomy to Kosovo, a Serbian province largely occupied by ethnic Albanians. • 1987: Slobodan Milosevic rises to power in Yugoslavia, fanning the flames of Serbian nationalism. • 1989: Escalating tensions between Serbs and ethnic Albanians and fear of secession prompt Milosevic to strip the province -- now 90 percent Albanian -- of its autonomy. • 1991: Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina declare independence, followed by war. • 1992: Kosovo's Albanian secession followed by Serb massacres or "ethnic cleansing" • 1995: A peace agreement to end the Bosnian War is signed late in the year by leaders of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. • 1999: Massacres, bombings and NATO occupation |
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In the time of Industrialization in Europe what did these years signify?
1790-1850, 1850-1870, and 1870-1914? |
1790-1850=water power and steam engines; cotton textiles; ironworking; localized in nature.
1850-1870=exploitation of coal powered steam engines; steel products; railroads; world shipping; and machine tools; diffused in nature 1870-1914=electricity, telecommunications, rapid diffusion. |
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In WWII who were the Axis Powers and who were the Allied Powers?
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Allied= Britain, US and USSR
Axis= Germany, Japan and Italy |
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What is the CMEA and who are its members?
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CMEA= The communist council for mutual assistance which gives bilateral and multilateral relationships between member countries.
Members:Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,Poland, Soviet Union, East Germany, Mongolia, Cuba and Vietnam |
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What is a Command economy?
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Every aspect of economic production and distribution is controlled centrally by government agencies.
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How many Jews were killed during the Holocaust? How many other victims were there?
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6 million Jews were killed
15 million civilians were killed |
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What year was the United Nations created? Why?
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Created in 1945 for the purpose to save other generations from the scourge of war.
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What are the 6 official languages of the UN?
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English, French, Russian, Spanish, Chinese and Arabic.
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What percent of Europe accounts for the worlds population?
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Europe's population accounts for 11% of the worlds population with a growth rate of 0%
Much of the population is over 60 |
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What does GDP stand for?
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Gross Domestic Product:estimate of the total value of all materials, foodstuffs, goods, and services that are produced in a country in a particular year.
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What do GNP and PPP stand for?
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Gross National Product: similar to GDP but also includes the value of income from abroad
Purchasing Power Parity: estimate of how much of a common “market basket” of goods and services each currency can |
