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05/26/2009

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2 nuclear meltdowns, where
Definition
Three Mile Island in PA Chernobyl in Ukraine
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Indira Gandhi's ec. actions (4)
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Nationalized banks, devalued rupee to $ to boost trade, Green Revolution, "Stop Poverty" failed
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War that marked near end of Soviet Union
Definition
War between Soviet Union and Afghanistan
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Year that Soviet Union ceased to exist
Definition
1991
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Didn't trust intellectuals who said good steel required coal factory, told peasants to make unusable steel (pig iron) in their backyards. Who, and under what movement?
Definition
Mao, during Great Leap Forward
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Deng Xiaoping
Definition
Tiananmen Square, pragmatic politics, one child, modernization
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Main investors in Xiaoping's China, 1980s
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Chinese diaspora - amazing number of emigrants with tons of money!!
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Years Hong Kong under Britain and how it got out
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1842-1997, Britain's 99 year lease was up, Xiaoping asked Thatcher for Hong Kong back
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"One Country, Two Systems" - who? where? for how long?
Definition
Xiaoping. Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan. For 50 years (no one said what will happen then)
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Famines after 1950 - where and when
Definition
China 1960 (Great Leap Fwd), Nigeria & Biafra 70s (civil war), Sahul 80s
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Name for Australia & New Guinea
Definition
Sahul
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2005 event in Cambodia
Definition
oil and natural gas deposits found beneath Cambodia's waters - govt would control it, UN Development Programme trying to get it to be transparent
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opposite of orthodox economists
Definition
heterodox economists
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Washington Consensus's political stance (good term and bad term), person who wrote it and when
Definition
Good term: Classical liberalism. Bad term: Neoliberalism. Written by John Williamson in 1989
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Prime minister of Cambodia
Definition
Hun Sen
Term
KMT (Taiwan) leader and his stance towards china
Definition
Ma Ying-jeou - not for independence
Term
King of Cambodia
Definition
Norodom Sihamoni
Term
King before current king of Cambodia
Definition
Norodom Sihanouk (father) - he abdicated in 2004
Term
Market economy, socialist political system - it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice
Definition
Deng Xiaoping Theory (mandatory university class)
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Cambodia exports
Definition
Rice, fish, timber, garments, rubber.
Term
George Bush Sr's small help to lower gas dependency
Definition
better fuel economy standard (same as Carter), better building standards, renewable energy tax credit
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Clinton and energy
Definition
Clinton would have raised fuel economy standards, but Congress didn't let him
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Bush jr policy on fuel economy standards
Definition
Raised them slightly in 03. In 07, promised to raise them a lot by 2020.
Term
Cars in the "light truck" category (lower fuel economy standards)
Definition
1980s Chrysler minivan... now SUVs, vans, pickup trucks
Term
Irredentism
Definition
Nationalism based on LAND. any position advocating annexation of territories on the grounds of common ethnicity or prior historical possession.
Term
example of irredentism
Definition
Nazi Anschluss of Austria
Term
Followers of very traditional Islam
Definition
Salafis
Term
Wahhabism
Definition
Term for reformist movement of Sunni Islam attributed to al-Wahhab. Derogatory to followers who want to be called unitarians
Term
Bangladesh main exports (4)
Definition
Clothes, fish, jute goods, leather products
Term
Jute
Definition
vegetable fiber second to cotton in uses and amount produced. Makes cloth, rope, imitation silk. BIODEGRADABLE. National dish of Egypt.
Term
Analysts say the antagonism between the Awami League, which governed until July 2001, and the ___ Nationalist Party reflects personal animosity between their leaders rather than substantial ideological differences.
Definition
Bangladesh
Term
Bangladesh incomes
Definition
Almost half live less than $1/day
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Year Taliban removed from governance in Afghanistan
Definition
2001
Term
Afghanistan provides _% of world's __
Definition
93% of world's opium
Term
Drug makes up __ of Afghanistan economy
Definition
60%
Term
Capital and largest city of Afghanistan
Definition
Kabul
Term
Afghanistan exports
Definition
Fruit and nuts, carpets, wool, opium
Term
Chad exports
Definition
Cotton, oil, livestock, textiles
Term
Chad owned by France till _
Definition
1960
Term
Cambodia exports
Definition
Rice, fish, timber, garments, rubber
Term
Pan-nationalism
Definition
Nationalist movement based on PEOPLE. Belief that the ‘national group’ is dispersed over several existing states
Term
Rajiv Gandhi crisis
Definition
Currency crisis - failed to stop the fall of the rupee
Term
Sachs's Big Five
Definition
agriculture, health&education, electricity, transportation&communications, safe drinking water&sanitation
Term
Cambodia's 1st and 2nd greatest source of hard currency
Definition
1) textile industry 2) tourism
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Countries that adopted hard currency as legal tender
Definition
Ecuador and El Salvador - USD. Kosovo and Montenegro - deutschmark (and then euro)
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