Post on 03-Jan-2016
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Nuclear History
• Event that led to the proliferation and stockpiling of weapons between the 2 Cold War superpowers.
• Sputnik
Health & Environment
• Controversial international agreement to reduce the overall global production of CO2 by 2015.
• Kyoto Protocol
Nuclear Weapons
• Chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons that can cause great damage and loss of life.
•WMD’s
Globalization
•What is the growing integration of the world’s economies and societies?
• Globalization
Nuclear Weapons
•Missiles that travel on a mathematical trajectory through the atmosphere.
• Ballistic
Nuclear Agreements
• 2 treaties that limit where nuclear testing can take place.
• Limited & Comprehensive Test Ban Treaties (LTBT & CTBT).
Globalization
• What is an outcome of the US housing market collapse??
• Homelessness and unemployment in the US• Decline in international trade• Bailout of banks by US government
Globalization
•Value of alternative that must be forgone to pursue certain action?
•Opportunity Cost
Nuclear Agreements
•Recent treaty that targets the spread of weapons & technology to terror groups.
• SORT
Human Rights
• Identify two groups of peoples protected under UN Conventions making up HR law.
• Refugees, Racial minorities, Women, Children, Prisoners
Nuclear History
• The 1st and only use of nuclear weapons occurred when the US dropped 2 bombs on this island nation.
• Japan
Globalization
•What is one action that Deng Xiaoping took to modernize China ?
• Opening foreign investment, privatizing industry, allowing private enterprise
Nuclear History
• Critical event that led the US and USSR to agree to a test-ban treaty and reduction talks.
• Cuban Missile Crisis
Globalization
• What was a cause of the global financial crisis?
• Creation of mortgage backed securities to increase foreign investments in the US market
• b. Foreclosure rates above 10% that threw off market forecasts
• c. Lowering standards to make loans/mortgages more readily available for Americans
Nuclear Proliferation
• Name 2 of 3 NPT goals
• Non-proliferation (stop spread), disarmament, fair access peaceful use
Health & Environment
• Disease that is contagious and which can be transmitted from one source to another.
• Communicable disease
Nuclear Proliferation
• Name 3 nations that have successfully tested nuclear weapons aside from NWS.
• India, Pakistan, North Korea
Globalization
• List 3 Regional Trade Agreements.
• NAFTA (US, Canada, Mexico)• EU (European Union)• AU (African Union)• ASEAN & SAFTA (SE Asia) • MERCOSUR (S. Amer)• GAFTA (Greater Arab)
Nuclear History
• Rejected US proposal for international regulations and inspection of all nuclear facilities.
• Baruch Plan
Nuclear Proliferation
• NNWS currently violating NPT requirement not to pursue nuclear weapons capabilities.
• Iran
Nuclear Agreements
• 1ST major agreement between the US & USSR to reduce their nuclear arsenals.
• SALT I
Globalization
• The three basic questions of Economics are?
• What to produce? Who to produce for? How to produce?
Globalization
•What is one of the principles of the WTO?
• Trade without discrimination, free trade, predictability, fair competition, development and economic reform