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| 57639297 | Kyoto Protocol | An attempt to make a global agreement on ways to reduce environmental damage. | 0 | |
| 57639298 | What was the oil crisis of 1973? How did it impact the Middle East? | Bargaining of oil started and the U.S. refused to pay a fixed price. Oil was harder to get in gas stations and U.S. made sure prices didn't go up too high. Competition among Middle East and South America in oil exports. | 1 | |
| 57639299 | Define Cartel | A fixed price on exports. [oil union] OPEC=(Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries) | 2 | |
| 57639300 | What is the treaty of Maastricht of 1992? | Political union was created and a closer union arose among the people in Europe. Provided the Central banking system and the Euro currency. | 3 | |
| 57639301 | Whats a major difference between the cultures of South America and the Caribbean? | Differences in language, Caribbean exported less than South America who had more natural resources. Caribbeans main exports were Rum, sugarcane etc. | 4 | |
| 57639302 | Whats the purpose of the World Bank. | -Helped organize trade -offered loans/guidance to developing nations -promoted a global economy. | 5 | |
| 57639303 | Describe the problems Japan has faced with industrialization. | They got rid of their military (abolished forever), officials, prisoners were released, overproduction, more exporting | 6 | |
| 57639304 | What advances in the last 50 years led to a population growth? | Trading, factories, newer treatments/technology, automobiles, individual owned businesses, computer technology. | 7 | |
| 57639305 | What regions does deforestation affect the most? | South/Central America, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe. | 8 | |
| 57639306 | Describe the religious coup of Iran. | Ayatollah Khomeini- conservative, religious purification, guy who promised magical protection/paradise to those who died. Religious backlash, wanted to spread revolutions to surrounding areas of the Muslim Middle East. | 9 | |
| 57639307 | What was the Suez Canal Crisis caused by? | Egypt wanting the Suez canal for themselves. U.S./Britain/French involved because French wanted to occupy it. | 10 | |
| 57639308 | How has the collapse of the Soviet Union negatively impacted Sub Saharan Africa? | Led to a major slowdown in the demand for primary commodities and a sharp reduction in world commodity prices. Africa exported many goods to the Soviets. | 11 | |
| 57639309 | How have the colonial boundaries of countries hurt African nations after WWII? | Nationalism!! People were against one another. More competition, exporting was difficult, currency exchange, prises rose/fell, cultural diffusion, many natural resources wiped out. | 12 | |
| 57639310 | What was the Soviet-Chinese relationship like in the 1960's? | Both allies were communist. Had each others back and tried to influence North Korea. | 13 | |
| 57639311 | What was Chinas "great leap forward"? | (1958) Industrialization not in factories, but at farms, used communes (extra resources) for building tractors, cement for irrigation, "backyard furnaces" They FAILED within months because Mao's plan brought a drought to China and the resorted to importing grain. | 14 | |
| 57639312 | Describe the characteristics of a consumer society. | Economy runs on supply and demand. People obtain goods and services for consumption through exchange rather than self-production. | 15 |
