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Radio

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In the 1900s, borught news, music, and culutral events to a wide a range of people.

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Shipping containers

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Large standard sized units that could be carried on a truck or train or stacked on ship, promted the widespread movement of peopel and goods.

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Arab spring

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Soical media played a role, anti-goverment spread to Norht Africa and Middle East. 2010

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Green Revoultion

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Scientist deveopled new varieties of wheat, rice, and other grains that had higer yeilds and greater resitinace to pests, diesease, and drought 20th century.

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Cross breading

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Breading two varities of a plant ro create a hydrid, during the Green Revolution

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Gentic engineering

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Manituplating cell orgnaims to chnage its basic charatistercis.

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Antibotics

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Scottish bioligist, Alexendar Fleming discorvered pencicillin, durong World War 2, from fungi

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Birth control

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1950s created George pincus, reliadble method than the barrier methods. Dreaces fertility rates.

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Vaccinces

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Exsited in 1716, to prevent deadly virses after 1900s. Polio, meases, and small pox.

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Pandemics and small pox

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Epidemic dieases that spread across national borders, like small pox in Egypt

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Malaria

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Paraitic diease spread by mosqiutoes killled more than 600,000 21th century

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Docotrs without Borders

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Treated 1.7 million people annuly, prevet malaria

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Tuberculosisi

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An airborne infection spreads though coughs and sneeze and affects the lungs.

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Polio

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Water contamintaion like malaria, infected 100,00 new people per year.

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Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin

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Annouce on APrill 12, 1955 that injectable vaccine against polio, seven years later ALbert Stabin deveopled a vaccine.

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AIDS

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Cause by ( HIV) - killed over 25 miillon, weaknes the immune system. Unprotet sex, blood tranfusion 1920-2014

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Antireoriviral drugs

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Could stop HIV from weaking ur immune system. But expsnisve 1990s

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Ebola

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1917 deadly diease caused by a virus tat infects the African furit bats, humans get the viruse from exposure to fluids of infeted people or anaimsl.m

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Heasrt transplant

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Firs perfomed. By South African Chrisitan Barnard in 1967. Robert Jarvik led a team that degined an articifial heart used as a temporary device while the patient waited for a compatible human heart.

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Alzhemier’s disease

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Edlery middle age, lost memory.

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Air quality

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KI-moon, south Korean ploitican and diplomat concluded that climate chnage was global prombelm and debated the best way to appproach it.

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Green Party/ Belt movement

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Focuses on enviormental issues and protected the wilderness

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Kyoto Protocol

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International agreemtn to reduce carbon emissions in 1997.

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Anthropocene

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New man

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Ronald Regan - U.S Margaret Thater - Britian
Cutting taxes, regulations, and goverment asisstnce to the poor as a way to promote economic growth.
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Free markets
from rononald and Marget economic system based on supply and demand
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Augusto pinochet
Took power in a U.S back coup aganist a democrarically eleted socailst goveremnt led by Salavodr Allende
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Deng xiaping
In 1981 became chinese leader, the communist paty backed awayf rom its commitment to economic equality.
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NAFTA
US, Canda, and Mexico the norht AMerican Free trade Agremment
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Maquiladoras( factories)
In mexico that used that used low-wage Mexican labor to produce tariff-tree goods for foriegn export
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Universal Declariton of Human RIghts
1948 United Nations laid groundworks for the bassic rights and fundemental freedoms for all human being
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Human rights
Basic protections that are common to all people.
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UNICEF
In 1946 to provide food to children in Euroep who were still suffering more than a year after World War 2.
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International Court of Jusice
Judicial body set up by UN. Also kown as World Court, it has 15 judges and eahc ust be a citizen of a different country.
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Refuges
Un protected people have fleed thier home conturies due to times of war, famine, and natural disaters. Provided food and shelter for them.
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Paris Agreement
Gave new hope for progress against global warning. Support by US and china. 2017 Donald trump withdrew.
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Asian tigers
Japan economic model hong kong, South Korea, sinapore, Taiwan.
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GATT
Lifted restrictive barriers to trade. Protective tariffs whihch are taxed in fieign import had been at a world average eate of 40 percent before GATT
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WTO
Took over GATTO
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Multinational corporation
Like google and mircosoft
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Nergritude movment
In French West Africa emphasized pride in blackness, the rejection of frnech colonial authority andd the right of self determination
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Leopold Sedar Senghor
Wrote poems about the the beatuty of African culture
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Liberation theology
Combined socialism with Catholism, latin america- pope francis reversed
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Civil rights act, voting rights act
Outlawed to discrimate race, color, sex, language, and religion, and votign 1965
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Aparthied
1948 segreation of pople based on race
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Pass laws
Black had to carry indenity docuent when entering white people teritory
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Desomd Tutu
he was no interested in having some part of right but wanted all of them and later became president of south Africa
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Nelson Mandela
Leader od ANC improison for going against apratheid then became president of South Africa
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Parish state
SOuth Africa was not wanted 1980s
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F.w.de Klerk
Released Nelson from Prison
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TRC-\
Sought to restore and establish an atmosphere of trust in the new South Africa, expose the truth of human violations that had occur duirng aparttheid
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Dalits
Untoched, discrimated by india
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Caste reservation system
Goverment guarrenteed entrollment of higher education for underpileged life
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Eath day aprill 22
To foucs on enviromental awareness
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Greenpeace 1971
Solving desforestation, global warning, etc - save the turtles
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Wangari Maatgai
Founded the green belt movemnt in 1977
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Throwaway culture
Waste and pollution that was part of the focus on newer,cheaper, more disposable prodcust
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Amercanization
American culture to other like India prepoen meatn oppiste of postpone
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Hari Krishma
Moevemnt based on Hindu scripture
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Falun Gong
Mmovement based on Buddhist and Doasit tradition.
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IMF
Work to maximize profit and sacrifce safety and labor conditions.
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Ranan Plaza Factory
Eight stry building collapse in Bangladesh
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Muhammad Yunus
Banglashes won noble prize of peace
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Ecotoruism
Toruing to making money form thier land, coast ricca
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Manal a; -sharif
The toold we use for liberation are being used to opppres us and spread fakes news- no beuno
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General assembly
Un decided important question on peace and security. Two-thrid mus agree
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Security Conucil
US, France, Britian, Russian, and CHina
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Secretariat
Influcne the entire organization came from small nation one of the more powerful couldnt recive intruction form home land
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Peacekkepin
Resolve promblme peacefully peace/war helped El Salavdor
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WFP
Provided food aid 1962 feed 1.4 billion people
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UNESCO
Extending free education, and protecitng cuutral enviroment sites.
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World Bank
944 social projects suach as education and disease prevention
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IMF
Promoting stabel currency exchnage rates
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Internation Pease Bureau
1891 for peace, worked for nuclear disarment, reduce military spending

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