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Economic ideologies

Fall of Communism

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FALL OF COMMUNISM 29-3 Economic Unity 1957: European Economic Community 1960: European Free Trade Association Postwar Soviet Union Khrushchev takes effort to DE-Stalinize Remained committed Communists Revolts in Eastern Europe Soviet troops put down rebellion in East Germany (1953) Poland (1956) Hungary (1956) Budapest Czechoslovakia (1968) Prague Solidarity Movement: Polish movement against Communism led by Lech Walessa Gorbachev Glasnost: openness and willingness to discuss Soviet issues Perestroika: reconstructing and reforming Soviet system Revolutions in Eastern Europe Velvet Revolution: peaceful revolution pushing Communists out of Czechoslovakia Solidarity Movement: Polish revolution, elect Walessa as President

business terms

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1-3 Economic Systems Goals: Identify the three economic questions Differentiate among the main types of economic systems Describe the economic system of the U.S. Key Terms (Countries) Economic system ? a nation?s plan for answering the three economic questions Command economy ? the resources are owned and controlled by the government Market economy ? the resources are owned and controlled by the people of the country Traditional economy ? goods and services are produced the way it always has been done (African countries) Mixed economy ? combines elements of the command and market economics Capitalism - refers to the Three economic questions: What to produce? How to produce? What needs and wants to satisfy? The U.S. Economic System Four principles: Private Property

AP Human Geography Unit II Review

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Gerrymandering: process of redrawing legislative boundaries for the purpose of benefiting the party in power Balkanization: process by which a state breaks down through conflicts among its ethnicities Agglomeration: grouping together of many firms from the same industry in a single area for collective or cooperative use of infrastructure and sharing of labor resources Maquiladoras: those US firms that have factories just outside the US/Mexican border in areas that have been specially designated by the Mexican government Assimilation: the process through which people lose originality differentiating traits, such as dress, speech, particularities, or mannerisms, when they come into contact with another society or culture

PERSIA

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PERSIA" is an acronym for Political, Economic, Religious, Social, Intellectual, and Artistic. It is a framework for organizing your thinking about history. ? Politics is about power, who uses it to govern (make and enforce rules), how power is used, and the goals one hopes to accomplish by using power. Politics is about public decisions and how those decisions are reached. Public power is usually exercised through governments. ??Economics?is about how people use whatever resources they have to produce and distribute goods and services. Economics is about jobs, production, money, and markets. Economics helps us decide how to effectively use scarce resources. Economics is about daily survival; you have to have food and shelter to survive, and that usually takes money.

APUSH study guide

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Sheet1 Mexican Cession After Annexation of TX, issues w/ MX broke out. Fremont overthrew MX in CA; Scott captured MX City - Treaty of Guad. Hidalgo (1848) 1. Rio Grande S. border of TX 2. US got NM and CA for $15mill; MX Ces - Whigs opposed; immoral effort to expand slavery; Wilmont Proviso - Forbid slavery in new MX territiory (didn't pass); Comp or 1850 - CA free state; divide MX Ces into NM and UT - pop sov

The Industrial Revolution

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The Industrial Revolution (1780-1850): Overview of the Industrial Revolution: Machines began to replace humans in the manufacturing of goods. Use of the Steam Engine for producing textiles in the 1780s was the turning point. Europe Gradually transitioned from an agricultural and commercial society into a modern industrial society. By the Mid 19th Century, industrialism had spread all across Europe. The economic changes of the industrial revolution did more than any other movement to revolutionize life in Europe and western civilization. Roots of the Industrial Revolution: Begins with the Commercial Revolution (1500-1700) Price Revolution (Inflation) Rise of capitalism Scientific Revolution Increased in population Cottage Industry New Technology

World Civ IIH - Introduction

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Introduction: 1. Geography: study of where people, place and things are located and how they relate to each other. Location: Position on Earth?s surface Absolute location is derived from longitude and latitude. Place: Physical and human characteristics Physical: Landforms Climate Soil Animal life Human: Activities Means of transportation Religion Language Human interaction with the environment: how people alter the world around them. Hidden costs: pollution, pesticides. People?s adaptation: conformity to the land. i.e. Igloos in the north. Movement: Shift of people, goods and ideas Migration: people move to find resource/freedoms/natural disasters/war Trade: Movement of goods between areas. Resources are spread differently => import and export of goods.

Ch. 26 Outline and Study Notes-AP World History "The Earth and its Peoples", 5th edition

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CHAPTER 26 ? AP WORLD HISTORY ? STUDY TOPICS ?THE NEW POWER BALANCE, 1850 ? 1900? **Introduction to Chapter: In the late 19th Century a very small number of states, known as ?great powers?, dominated the world. Great Britain, France, and Russia had been recognized as the great powers long before the industrial age. Russia began industrializing in the late 19th century, as did Germany, the US and Japan. The US rise to power was covered in Chapter 23; this Chapter (26) will cover the other great powers of the late 19th century.

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