Current Events
Russia is at war with this country.
Where is Ukraine?
The acronym for GDP stands for ___ and it is based on the combination of 4 factors. Name one.
What is Gross Domestic Product?;
What are consumption, investment, net exports (exports-imports), and government spending?
Name 6 NATO countries
what are...
original - Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Greece and Türkiye (1952), Germany (1955), Spain (1982), Czechia, Hungary and Poland (1999), Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia (2004), Albania and Croatia (2009), Montenegro (2017) and North Macedonia (2020)
The sole person in our government that has the ability to authorize nuclear weapons use.
who is the president?
The 3 main types of weighing
what are magnitude, probability, and timeframe?
Economic sanctions are defined as the withdrawal of customary trade and financial relations for foreign- and security-policy purposes. Name two countries that the US has sanctions on and why.
Cuba, Venezuela, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Russia
The current level of national debt (ballpark).
What is $31.5T?
(will accept any number between 27T and 35T)
Saudi Arabia's biggest export
What is crude oil/petroleum?
These two neighboring south-Asian countries have engaged in 4 wars since their split into two countries in 1947. One of these countries declared Islam as their state's religion. The other has no official religion, but is a majority Hindu country.
What are India and Pakistan?
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The Rohingya genocide is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by this country's military
What is Myanmar/Burma?
The US government agency in charge of regulating the amount of money in circulation
What is the federal reserve?
The United States biggest trading partner
Who is China?
Name 4 Cold War Presidents
Who are
Truman, Eisenhower, FDR, Carter, Reagan, Ford, Nixon, LBJ, Bush #1 ?
The two most common types of theory you should expect to hit
what are paraphrasing theory and disclosure theory?
The term for slow economic growth combined with inflation. This was particularly a concern during the 1970s
What is stagflation?
This Ethnic group is native to West Asia and practices the Sunni Muslim religion. Current internal armed conflicts involving these groups are occurring in Turkey, Iran, Syria, and Iraq- and they have been subject to genocide.
Who are the Kurds?
In 2021, Pres. Biden recognized the Armenian genocide. Who perpetrated the Armenian genocide during WWI
what is the ottoman empire?
(will accept turkey)
What are Ghana and Sri Lanka?
A value-added tax, or VAT, is added to a product at every point of the supply chain where value is added to it.
True or false, a VAT is progressive
what is false?
When a country is in a precarious position (such as Taiwan), the US doesn't always declare a clear stance. This policy potentially prevents escalation, but it also leaves the potential for miscalculation.
What is strategic ambiguity?
Help. I have a tournament tomorrow but no case written. Where can I find a last minute case?
trick question you should never be in this situation.