Who - Who
World Mix
Systems
Define
Politics
100

Ruled the economy trying to transform it to a socialist state. Successor promised to continue the ideas but this put the private sector in turmoil and still is causing issues.

Hugo Chavez

100

A group within a country who still has a traditional Economy.

Maori People of New Zealand

100

An Economic System based on homemade and bartering

Traditional

100

The standard measure of the value added created through the production of goods and services in a country during a certain period( usually per yer)

GDP - Gross Domestic Profit

100

A political system which in factors of production are owned and directed by the state. A theoretical idea

Communism and or socialism

200

An Advantage of a Command Economy in an ideal world.

Resources are supposed to be more readily available or move faster.

200

This country has been in transition multiple times due to various leaders including Joseph Stalin.

USSR/Soviet Union/ Russia

200

These Countries have this type of system: 

  • Cuba

  • N. Korea

  • China

  • USSR

Command

200

 Distribution of goods

Allocation

200

A policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries

Isolationism

300

In 1927 who created the Five Year Plan?

Joseph Stalin

300
The European Union

Successor of the European Coal and Steel community. To help bring European countries together. In 1993 by the Maastricht Treaty.

300

Lack of Freedom - media is extremely controlled

Command Economy

300

Independently owned group of Japanese firms joined and governed by an external board of directors in order to regulate competition

Keiretsu - Japan

300

Fundamental restructuring of the Soviet economy - Mikhail Gorbachev

Perestroika

400

This individual gained control of the People's Republic of China and over the next 5 decades adopted a series of five year plans to manage growth. Part of the Great Leap Forward to revolutionize industrial and agricultural production overnight. It was a disaster.

Mao Zedong

400

Worst period of economic decline in U.S. history

The Great Depression 1929 - 1939

400

Disadvantage of a Market or Free Market

  • Monopolies

  • Income/wealth gap

  • Wealth = power

  • Poverty

  • Some services struggle

  • Small businesses suffer

400

Shift of economy or part of economy from private to government

Nationalization

400

Measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile

Robert F. Kennedy

500

Who is Karl Marx?

A German Philosopher who wrote the book "The Communist Manifesto"

500

An island country that is still largely Traditional Economy.

Tuvalo

500

Gosplan

Central authority in for the Soviet Union with the purpose of planning and directing the 5 year plans

500

Political system in which private citizens own and use the factors/resources of production in order to generate profit that affects the economics of a country

Capitalism/Capitalist

500

Forces common ownership of factor of production, Used in the former Soviet Union in agriculture and manufacturing.

Collectivization