February 9- 13

Monday- Group test over current events and key terms

Tuesday- Absent (Group started to work on Anarchy and Dictatorship project)

Wednesday- In the first time in 13 years, the President has asked Congress to go to war against ISIS. 3 Muslim students were shot to death near UNC at Chapel Hill. They said they were arguing over a parking spot; they victims were fairly young.

Thursday- There are 13 states in the United States that don't have gay marriage; mostly Southern States. The Southeast are called the Bible Belt because they are really religious there (Separation of Church between State)

Economic System

Political System

Socialism-

  • A social and economic system characterized by the social ownership of the means of production
  • Most valuable property and estates are owned by the state. No one owns anything, but the society as a whole owns everything together. Everyone gets everything, there is no wealth and there is no poor. Bad: people who don't work still get the same as people who do work a lot. Bad: there is no competition (which breeds better and cheaper products)
    • Examples:
      • China - Created one of the worst dictators and killed over 50 million
      • Cuba
      • Laos
      • Vietnam
      • Soviet Union - Created one of the worst dictators and killed over 60 million

Capitalism

  • An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by the people
  • Country has private ownership. Everything is owned by the people and the people choose what they buy and can start their own businesses. The more you work, the more money you can get. Lots of wealth diversity
    • Examples:
      • USA
      • Canada
      • UK
      • Mexico
      • Ireland

Mixed Economy

  •  Economic system that contains a mixture of markets. Managed by the people who run independent companies and is managed by government organizations controlled by the state
    • Examples
      • UK - run mostly by market
      • Cuba - turning into mixed economy
      • USA - free markets
      • France - trying to privatize more industries
      • Russia

Communism-practice and theory

    • A totalitarian system of government in which a single party controls
    • controlled and ran by the government. people do not have the freedom of speech, religion, etc.
  • Examples: Last communist countries
    • Cuba
    • China
    • Laos
    • North Korea
    • Vietnam
    • Soviet Union -- FIRST COUNTRY
        • Political theory from Karl Marx in which everything is equal and there are no social classes and everyone equal. 
      • Examples:
        • No examples of his theory because the government controls everything

Monarchy absolute-

  • is a government determined by only it's ruler (no laws)
  • Brunei, Oman, Qatar, Arabia (Asia), Swaziland (Africa)

Monarchy constitutional- Ruler are restricted to those granted under the constitution and the laws

  • United Kingdom, Denmark, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Monaco 
  • The leader of these monarchies are just a public figure

Democracy-direct- (Pure Democracy)

  • where citizens have a good say in the laws that the Country makes and have an influence 
  • Switzerland- the government has options of the laws then have certain amount of people sign it

Democracy-representative-

  • (Indirect Democracy) instead of people voting for law, they vote for people to make official laws in government (Congress)
  • United States, Canada, Cambodia, Chile all have these 

Dictatorship

Anarchy

Oligarchy

  • The rule of a few people that are more rich and more powerful than the other -- don't come out and say that they are an oligarchy
  • Examples:
    • Russia
    • India - ruled by a small circle of wealthy people
    • Britain - poor get poor, the wealthy keep getting wealthy and the Monarchs/Parliamentary do not care
    • China - Once a week, the leaders get together and talk about how they want the country to be

 

Friday- Continued to take notes in the listed above topics

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