Vocabulary
World Geography
Categories
There are 8 categories I've come up with
- economic levels of activity
- genocide
- trade with other countries
- European union
- Cold War
- geopolitics
- types of economies
- economic geography
Economic levels of activity
- Primary - raw materials
- Secondary- industry (manufacturing)
- Tertiary- buisness and professional
- Quaternary- informations and intellectual
- Quinary- highest level of decision making (ie; someone in office)
Genocide
- sanction- punishment for disobeying the law
- diversity- varying opinions, religious and political views, sexual orientation, heritage, racial and ethnic backgrounds. (These could be used against someone in the face of genocide)
- genocide- a deliberate killing of one group of people
Trade with outside countries
- Outsourcing- supplies from other countries
- tariff- tax on imported and export goods
- globalization- interaction of different countries buying and selling goods
European Union
- European Union- common currency and market across the countries in Europe
- E.U- the acynm for European union
Cold War
- Truman Doctrine- when the ussr pressured Greece and turkey to turn communist and the U.S. Promised to protect them with military and economic help if they were threatened.
- Marshall Plan- 13 billion billion dollars to rebuild
- Cold War- communism vs. capitalism
- NATO- North Atlantic treaty organization
- United Nations- republic of China. France,soviet union, United Kingdom and the united states.
geopolitics
- democracy- citizens hold power
- dictatorship- seize power. Individual or military group
- Monarchy- oldest form of government
- Stateless nation- ethnic or religious group that are not the majority population in any nation state
Types of Economies
- infrastructure- consists of the basic support systems needed to keep an economy going, including power, communications, transportation, water, sanitation and educational systems.
- Subsistence agriculture- people are the ones who do the work (not machines)
- Traditional economy's traditional custums/beliefs shape the economy
- Free enterprise/Capitalist- private buisness operates in compition and largely free state of control
- Mixed economy- both comman and market
- Command economy- governance controls the productions
- GDP- Gross Domestic Product
Economic Geography
- NAFTA- North American free trade agreement
- OPEC- organization of the petroleum exporting countries