Globalization & Economy
What the process of increased interconnectedness through trade and cultural exchange?
What is globalization?
What are human rights?
What are universally recognized standards of human behavior protected by law?
Who used nonviolent civil disobedience to fight British rule in India?
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
What event directly started WWI?
What is the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
Who wrote The Communist Manifesto?
Who is Karl Marx?
What are two innovations that have accelerated globalization?
What are communication technology and containerized transportation?
Name one country with declining HRI scores and the reason.
What is Russia—due to repression and media restrictions?
What conflict resulted from the 1947 partition of British India?
What is the Kashmir conflict?
What plan involved Germany’s invasion of France via Belgium?
What is the Schlieffen Plan?
What is a key difference between socialism and pure communism?
What is socialism has government; communism doesn’t?
What is one benefit and one drawback of globalization?
What are job opportunities in developing nations and pollution/deindustrialization in developed countries?
Name three stages of genocide from the 10-stage model.
What are classification, discrimination, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, persecution, extermination, denial
What was the goal of Pan-Africanism?
What is unity and cooperation of African nations?
Name two punishments Germany received under the Treaty of Versailles.
What are loss of army and $33 billion in reparations?
Who was the monarch overthrown in the Russian Revolution?
Who is Czar Nicholas II?
According to Thomas Friedman, what has “flattened” the world?
What is technological innovation?
Who led Cambodia during its genocide?
Who is Pol Pot?
What was a global reaction to apartheid in the 1980s?
What are economic sanctions against South Africa?
What WWII event was called “The Blitz” in Britain?
What is the bombing of British civilians by Germany?
What is laissez-faire?
What economic system involves private ownership, profit motive, and limited government interference?
What is pure capitalism?
What was the UN’s responsibility under the 1948 Genocide Convention?
What is send peacekeeping troops?
What empire controlled the Middle East before WWI?
What is the Ottoman Empire?
What was the outcome of the Yalta Conference?
What are free elections in Eastern Europe and formation of the UN?
Who took over after Lenin and exiled/killed Trotsky?
Who is Joseph Stalin?