Asia Stuff
The 2,500-year-old teachings of a Chinese philosopher. It still strongly influence cultures in East Asia today. Primary among his teachings was a deep respect for elders, rulers, and husbands.
What is Confucianism
Prior to U.S. intervention, which country had attempted to build the Panama Canal?
What is France
This is a tax or duty to be paid on a particular class of imports or exports
What is a Tariff
The notion that Americans were a chosen people ordained by God to create a model society; it was accepted as the basis for U.S. policy during much of the 19th and 20th centuries as the nation expanded its territory
What is Manifest Destiny
The use of funds, usually illegally, to influence decisions made by public employees and government officials.
What is bribery
The most costly civil war in human history & in China circa 1851–1864. Some estimates have the death toll at between 20 million and 40 million
What is the Taiping Rebellion
There are this many countries in Central America
What is 7
A global institution that, along with the World Bank Group, was created to assist nations in becoming and remaining economically viable.
What is the IMF or International Monetary Fund
A cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy expansion. It proclaimed three basic things: no further European colonization in the New World, abstention of the United States from European political affairs, and nonintervention of European governments in the governments of the Western Hemisphere
What is the Monroe Doctrine
An evaluation of other cultures according to preconceptions originating in the standards and customs of one's own culture.
What is ethnocentrism
Two wars fought between China and Britain over a British-run trade system via the British East India Company and China during the middle 1800s.
What are the Opium Wars
This River currently marks the boundary between the United States and Mexico
What is the Rio Grande
This is a trade agreement signed by the United States and 22 other countries shortly after World War II. The original agreement provided a process to reduce tariffs and created an agency to patrol world trade; the treaty and subsequent meetings have produced agreements significantly reducing tariffs.
What is GATT - General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
The US, Mexico and Canada form this influential trade bloc
What is the USMCA
What is Belize
Chang Kai-Shek fled to this island also known as the Republic of China (ROC) in 1949
What is Taiwan
This country has the leading economy in South America
What is Brazil
This organization formed in 1994. It encompasses the GATT structure and extends it to new areas that had not been adequately covered previously. It adjudicates trade disputes & all member countries have equal representation.
What is the WTO
The seizure of an investment by a government in which some reimbursement is made to the investment owner; often the seized investment becomes nationalized
A business custom (as in a foreign country) that must be recognized and accommodated
What is Cultural Imperative
An influential trade bloc consisting primarily of Southeast Asian Nations.
What is ASEAN
The leading trade bloc of South America
What is MERCOSUR or the Common Market of the South
Agreements, similar to quotas, between an importing country and an exporting country for a restriction on the volume of exports. Also known as orderly market agreements (OMAs)
What are VER's or Voluntary Export Restraints
This policy stated that the United States not only would prohibit non-American intervention in Latin American affairs but also would police Latin America and guarantee that all Latin American nations would meet their international obligations
What is the Roosevelt Corollary
This is the second most widely spoken language in the world
What is Mandarin Chinese - with over 1.1 billion speakers