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Semester One Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the main environmental issue in the United Kingdom? | Air pollution |
| What happened in the Ukraine in the 1980s when it was part of the Soviet Union? | Chernobyl Power Plant exploded because of an operational error (faulty reactor) |
| What is the main environmental issue in Germany's Black Forests? | Acid rain |
| How does acid rain affect the environment? | causes fish to die in lakes, statues to erode, and plants to die because they cannot complete photosynthesis |
| How did the Chernobyl Power Plant explosion affect other countries in Europe? | Wind carried the radiation to other countries, so other countries had problems with health issues such as birth defects |
| Most countries in southwestern Europe speak a language from what language family? | Romance |
| What are two countries that speak a Slavic language? | Ukraine and Russia |
| What is the most predominant religion in Europe? | Christian |
| What are the three monotheistic religions of Europe? | Judaism, Christianity, and Islam |
| What province in Canada is culturally different than the rest of Canada, and has been discriminated against in the past? | Quebec |
| What are the two economic systems are on either ends of the economic continuum? | market and command |
| Communist countries have what type of economic system because the government controls the economy? | command |
| Countries that allow private businesses to have more control than the government are closer to what system on the continuum? | market |
| All democratic countries are what type of economic system? | mixed |
| A tax on an imported good that makes revenue for a country | tariff |
| Completely surround a country and do not allow goods in or out | blockade |
| refusing to trade with another country | embargo |
| A mountain is what type of trade barrier | physical |
| What trade barriers hurt another country's economy (many times as an act of war or protest)? | blockade and embargo |
| When you have to change your money in order to but something in another country | currency exchange |
| The group of nation in Europe formed to prevent future wars, form a united economy by having one currency and free trade, and to solve common issues | European Union |
| people and their education | human capital |
| tools, technology and factories used to make a product. | capital goods |
| How does investment in capital goods an human capital affect GDP? | increases it |
| How does literacy rate affect standard of living? | the higher the literacy rate, the higher the standard of living |
| Why did the Russian Revolution occur? | The poor in Russia had been mistreated, and the Bolsheviks wanted Russia out of WWI. They wanted peace, land and bread. |
| Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks and first dictator of the Soviet union? | Lenin |
| How did the Treaty of Versailles affect Germany? | blamed them for WWI, had to pay reparations (leading to economic depression), had to give back land, had to decrease military. It allowed Hitler to gain popularity. |
| How did the depression in Germany lead to the rise of Nazism? | Because the people were looking for a leader to lead them out of the depression, and they wanted someone to blame - Jews, communists, capitalists |
| What country was blamed for WWI? | Germany |
| How did Hitler use propaganda to promote himself & anti-Semitism? | He used it to convince people that the Jews were enemies of Germany, and that Germans were the true master race. People believe it because it was so widespread- in art, in movies, in books, everywhere!!! |
| After WWII who controlled East Germany and what was its government? | Soviet Union and communist |
| What type of government did West Germany have? | democratic |
| What happened to the city of Berlin? | The Soviet Union tried to blockade it, but the US sent an airlift. A wall was built to keep East Berliners from fleeing to democratic West Berlin |
| What type of government can be found in Canada and the UK? | parliamentary |
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mgilmour
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