GEOG 122 Flashcards

State of being modernconcerned with progress beginning with the enlightenment
(the more advanced the country the better off it is)

1. traditional society2. preconditions for takeoff3. takeoff4. drive to maturity5. age of high mass consumption

1. progress2. democracy3. rising standards of living4. dysfunctional societies5. abuse of nature

Increase an organization of flows of ideas, goods, capital. people and power across national boarders. leading to greater global integration of economics, politics and cultures

Current phase of economic modernization as market principles extend throughout the world, aided by an neo-liberal ideal

Need to sort out global local scale

Spacial and geographical

1. society nature relationships2. spacial patterns (map distributions and flows)3. experience of place4. regional studies

The international, political, and strategic significance of geography.
That is the location, size, resources and power of regions and nations

Identified the significance of the Eurasian HeartlandThe variable power of land man and sea man forces

Heartland of the worlds impregnable to naval power and therefore of particular geopolitical significance(eastern europe is the gateway to the heartland)

USSR: expanded via land based armiesUS: Sea Based armies

Distance early warning lines. 1955 was shield as early warning to determine if the USSR had started sending missiles over the arctic

Were the heartland seeks to move it's influences outwards, became ares of conflict during the cold warcentral europe, middle east, southeast asia

The idea that if one country falls to communism, they will all fall to communism