- What were President Obama's accomplishments/issues as President? (10 points) –
Accomplishments:
- Stopping Enhanced Interrogation techniques (waterboarding)
- Killing Osama Bin Laden
Issues
- Huge national debt
- Claimed Socialist
- Describe the main political and economic systems in the world. (10 points)
- Absolute Monarchy- ruler doesn’t have to follow a set of rules
- Constitutional Monarchy- ruler has to follow a set of rules (constitution) Head of state.
- Dictatorship- government is ruled by person that holds lots of power
- Representative Democracy- the people elect representatives to vote for us
- Direct Democracy- all the people vote (no countries)
- Communism- government controlled by a small group of people who want complete control over the country
- Theory of Communism- a classless society
- Anarchy- no government, potential chaos
- Capitalism- everyone has their own rights, (can own business, ect.)
- Socialism- everyone is equal, government is involved more than capitalism
- What are the major divisions between Democrats and Republicans in the US? (10 points)
- Republicans
- Conservative
- Less involved government
- Favor lower taxes
- Democrats
- Change in society
- Increasing taxes for different projects
- Anti-discrimination
4. What happened on 9-11-2001 and what impact did it have on the US? (10 points) Al-Qaeda sent a group of hijackers to the states to crash into the World Trade Center, the pentagon, and the capitol building. After the success of two terrorist attacks the country was in panic mode. President Bush gave a speech, from the white house, which re-assured the people of America. Shortly after we were at war in Afghanistan, to get Al-Qaeda, who we knew was in the country.
5. Why did the US go to war in Iraq and what impact did that war have on the US? (10 points) We went to war in Iraq because we thought that they had Weapons of Mass Destruction, even though they really didn’t. Another reason we went to Afghanistan was to get Saddam Hussein out of power. He was gassing people in the northern part of his country and we did not like that.
6. Describe the problems the following African countries (and Middle East) have had or are currently having as discussed in class:
- Rwanda – The Europeans favored the tutis, even though there weren’t very many of them. The Hutus came to power and started a genocide against the tutis, killing about 1 million in 100d days. The tutis fought back and eventually took power in Rawanda.
- Darfur in Sudan- The Arab Government was discriminating against the black-Africans of Darfur. Darfur tried to fight back but then the Government, along with the Janjaweed, started a genocide (rape, torture, malnutrition). The Arab government also wanted land because the Saharan is growing.
- South Sudan vs Sudan- they are fighting over oil. South Sudan recently became a new country and most of the oil lies in it. Both of the countries wanted the oil land and the fought over it in 2 different civil wars.
- Somalia- there was many different ethnic groups that were placed in Somalia. They kept fighting and terrorist groups were everywhere. There wasn’t really a form of government until recently, but still violence is everywhere, including pirates. American Citizens were killed during Black Hawk Down.
- Lord’s Resistance Army(Joseph Kony) in Uganda/Central African Republic – Joseph Kony is kidnapping kids and deforming their faces, making them shoot their families, all because he thinks he is a prophet of God.
- Syria- a civil war broke out between the people of Syria and the government. The people were not being treated well and the government was not doing anything about it. Govn’t would kill people that were speaking out against them. They also wanted the farm land.
(Two of the following-20 points)
7. What are some of the major problems the world is facing, what are the causes of these problems and what is being done to help solve these problems?(Two of the following-20 points)
UN Millennium Goals
•End poverty and hunger- 850 million people are starving; 3 billion people live on less than 1.25 per day, They UN is trying to cut those numbers in half by the end of 2015, some of the goals have already been met, but most of them have not.
•Universal education- making sure everyone gets education, sometimes the teachers don’t speak the same language, try to get every kid in primary school.
•Gender equality- making women and men equal, women get raped and tortured, property, women aren’t very active in school
•Child health- reduce child mortality, child being born into poverty, mothers not having good education, mortality rates in some places have actually increase. Overall getting better, decreased by 5.5 million
•Maternal health-reduce the maternal mortality rate, probably not going to reach the goal, don’t have proper care, not enough doctors, too expensive.
•Combat HIV/AIDS- universal access to the medicine has been met. Decreased by 17% by 2000, and the goal is being met.
•Environmental sustainability- replacing trees (rain forests, poor jobs, animals, climate change), saving plants and animals, give people safe drinking water, reduce slum-dweller
•Global partnership- countries are pulling together build other countries economy, technology, and education, developed countries helping developing countries with trade and resources, especially land locked countries and small islands.
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