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| 2 nuclear meltdowns, where |
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| 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 |
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| War between Soviet Union and Afghanistan |
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| Year that Soviet Union ceased to exist |
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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? |
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| Mao, during Great Leap Forward |
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| 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? |
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| 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 |
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| China 1960 (Great Leap Fwd), Nigeria & Biafra 70s (civil war), Sahul 80s |
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| Name for Australia & New Guinea |
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| 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 |
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| Washington Consensus's political stance (good term and bad term), person who wrote it and when |
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| Good term: Classical liberalism. Bad term: Neoliberalism. Written by John Williamson in 1989 |
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| Prime minister of Cambodia |
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| KMT (Taiwan) leader and his stance towards china |
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| Ma Ying-jeou - not for independence |
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| King before current king of Cambodia |
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| Norodom Sihanouk (father) - he abdicated in 2004 |
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| Market economy, socialist political system - it doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice |
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| Deng Xiaoping Theory (mandatory university class) |
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| Rice, fish, timber, garments, rubber. |
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| George Bush Sr's small help to lower gas dependency |
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| better fuel economy standard (same as Carter), better building standards, renewable energy tax credit |
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| Clinton would have raised fuel economy standards, but Congress didn't let him |
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| Bush jr policy on fuel economy standards |
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| Raised them slightly in 03. In 07, promised to raise them a lot by 2020. |
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| Cars in the "light truck" category (lower fuel economy standards) |
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| 1980s Chrysler minivan... now SUVs, vans, pickup trucks |
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| Nationalism based on LAND. any position advocating annexation of territories on the grounds of common ethnicity or prior historical possession. |
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| Nazi Anschluss of Austria |
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| Followers of very traditional Islam |
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| Term for reformist movement of Sunni Islam attributed to al-Wahhab. Derogatory to followers who want to be called unitarians |
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| Bangladesh main exports (4) |
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| Clothes, fish, jute goods, leather products |
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| vegetable fiber second to cotton in uses and amount produced. Makes cloth, rope, imitation silk. BIODEGRADABLE. National dish of Egypt. |
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| 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. |
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| Almost half live less than $1/day |
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| Year Taliban removed from governance in Afghanistan |
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| Afghanistan provides _% of world's __ |
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| Drug makes up __ of Afghanistan economy |
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| Capital and largest city of Afghanistan |
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| Fruit and nuts, carpets, wool, opium |
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| Cotton, oil, livestock, textiles |
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| Chad owned by France till _ |
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| Rice, fish, timber, garments, rubber |
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| Nationalist movement based on PEOPLE. Belief that the ‘national group’ is dispersed over several existing states |
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| Currency crisis - failed to stop the fall of the rupee |
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| agriculture, health&education, electricity, transportation&communications, safe drinking water&sanitation |
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| Cambodia's 1st and 2nd greatest source of hard currency |
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| 1) textile industry 2) tourism |
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| Countries that adopted hard currency as legal tender |
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| Ecuador and El Salvador - USD. Kosovo and Montenegro - deutschmark (and then euro) |
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