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Political and Economic systems-

Democracy is where the people have most of the control and say in how the country is run.

Representative- People elect others to vote for them.

Direct- The people each vote on the topics and issues.

Communism- Dictator like setting in which one person divides up what people have unfairly and controls them.

Idea of communism- Everyone is equal, and there are no social classes.

Dictatorship- Where the government is ruled by one person who usually doesn't treat his people fai or just.

Absolute Monarchy- Where the King and Queen of  a country have all of the control over thier subjects.

Socialism-Economic system where they want groups of people or all of the public to have the same resources or products.

Capitaism- Economic system where people want it to be private owned bussinesses.

Political Parties of the US-

Democratic- Party that is more liberal based. Most of their opinions are based on the constitution.

Republican- Party that is more bible based, and have more morals.

Global Warming- Theory that the earth is trapping green house gasses and warming it up. The world is just going through weather cycles in my opinion.

over popultation- There are too many people. There are 6.8 billion people in the world, and tha tis causeing space issues and hunger problems. Could result in extintion for the whole human race.

globalization- The world is flatening. Were able to communicate with people from all over the world in an instant. 1.0 large to med. countries started globilizing. 2.0 med. to small. businesses started globilizing. 3.0 small to tiny. individuals started globilizing.

Countries-Latin america.

Somalia- Failed state. Pretty much an anarchy because the government is small and doesn't really provide enough for them. Terrorist are all over.

Rwanda- There was a mass killing of over 800,000 tutsies by the hutus. The hutus wree the evil ones, but they blamed the tutsies for killing the president. The Tutsies ended up winning.

Darfur- Has been going on since 2003 and is pretty much a civil war. They are angry because they think that arabs are treated better than they are and it is accused of being a genocide.

Iraq- We thought they had WMD's, but they didnt. President Bush was critisised for this very much. Obama focused on Afghan.

Iran- They have the ability to make nuclear weapons, and they are a very scary threat to us.

Afghanistan- Where we attacked after 9/11 because they train terrorist there. Obama has mainly focused on them not Iraq.

North Korea and South Korea- North recentally  bombed south, but the south hasnt attacked back yet.

 

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