ReviewMP 2 Exam Review

Directions

•No calling out from the team (you will lose 2 points).

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

Human Rights

• Student protest for free speech violently put down in China

• Tiananmen Square

Nuclear History

• UN agency created to oversee NPT and peaceful uses of atomic energy.

• IAEA

Globalization

• The way in which we use our resources to meet our unlimited wants?

• Economy

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

Human Rights

• Highly controversial UN organ that oversees HR.

• Human Rights Commission

Nuclear Weapons

•Missile types that have the ability to travel long distances.

• Strategic

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

Nuclear Agreements

• 1st major agreement to address the spread of nuclear weapons technology.

• NPT

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 Proliferation

• 5 Nuclear Weapons States

• US, USSR, GB, FRA, CHN

Globalization

•What are the International trade agreements (3)?

• IMF, World Bank, WTO

Nuclear History

• The 1st and only use of nuclear weapons occurred when the US dropped 2 bombs on this island nation.

• Japan

Health & Environment

• International agreement to end the use of CFC’s.

•Montreal Protocol

Nuclear Weapons

• Lower-flying jet-propelled missiles.

• Cruise

Globalization

•What is one action that Deng Xiaoping took to modernize China ?

• Opening foreign investment, privatizing industry, allowing private enterprise

Nuclear Agreements

• President Obama’s idealistic nuclear goal.

• Nuclear Zero

Health & Environment

• How many people inhabit the globe?

• 7 billion

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

Globalization

• What are two of the basic economic systems?

• Market, Command, Traditional

Nuclear Proliferation

• NNWS currently violating NPT requirement not to pursue nuclear weapons capabilities.

• Iran

Human Rights

• Fundamental UN agreement on HR?

• Universal Declaration of HR

Nuclear Weapons

• Short range missile types.

• Tactical

Globalization

• What is a barrier to free trade?

• Quota, Subsidy, Tariffs

Human Rights

• Two basic categories of HR

• Civil/Political & Economic/Social/Cultural

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?

Health & Environment

• Specialized UN agency established to improve global health standards .

• WHO

Globalization

•What is one of the principles of the WTO?

• Trade without discrimination, free trade, predictability, fair competition, development and economic reform

Nuclear Weapons

•Missiles that are defensive in nature, and a part of a defense system, internationally illegal.

• ABM’s