superpowers Flashcards
America has the world’s largest economy with a GDP of
$20 trillion
China is second with a GDP of
$14 trillion
Japan has the 3rd largest…
economy in the world
The Russian state-controlled oil company [BLANK] has spent [BLANK] billion in Arctic exploration since 2012 and will invest another [BLANK] billion between 2017-2021.
- Rosneft
- $1.74
- $4.35
Russia contains 11% of the world’s landmass, and has…
145 million inhabitants.
5 largest consumer markets in the world:
1
The USA
2
China
3
Japan
4
Germany
5
The UK
In 2018, Turkey had lots of debts in dollars and their currency kept depreciating against the US Dollar, so they could not…
… pay back their debts.
The 20 largest economies in the world are part of what club?
G20
When was the G20 founded
1999
Which measure is the best indicator of military strength in the modern day?
Defence Spending
Mutually Assured Destruction refers to…
the fact that a nuclear war between two nuclear powers would probably destroy both of them. The USA, Britain, Russia, France, China, India, Israel, Pakistan and potentially North Korea have nukes.
When was China’s population 1.4 billion
2016
What is significant about Singapore’s population.
It is small. It has a population of only 5.6 million.
Global media TNCs influence global culture by deciding
which films people watch.
eg Netflix, Paramount ect
John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil was so powerful from [DATE] that it had to be broken up.
1870-1911
The UK’s supply of [FUEL TYPE] was key to kick-starting the industrial revolution in the 19th century.
coal
Britain generally exerted hard power over its colonies. In [DATE], at the [PLACE] massacre, around [NUMBER] Indian protesters were killed by British forces
- 1919
- Jallianwala Bagh
- 380
After World War Two ended there was a [TERM] world of competition between the two superpowers of USA and USSR
bi-polar
China has increasingly funded infrastructure developments in.
Nigeria
How much aid was given by the US Marshall Plan after WW2?
$12 Billion
Russia is re-emerging as a major economic power after the collapse…
… of the USSR in 1991.
For example, in 2014 the combined GDP of the BRIC was [NUMBER] This combined total is still about [NUMBER] less than that of the USA.
- $16.4 trillion.
- 8%
In 2016, roughly how many more people lived in BRIC nations relative to the USA?
3 Billion
How many people were lifted out of poverty in China between 2012 and 2017?
68.53 Million
what happened when the A8 countries joined the EU
Polish immigration increased
