Unit 9 Globalization (1900-present)

Question 1

New modes of transportation:

Answer 1

automobile, airplane

Question 1

Name new modes of tech:

Answer 1

Radio, Internet, cellular, telephone, television

Question 2

Shipping containers

Answer 2

carried on truck or ship. widespread movement of people/goods.

Question 3

Spanish flu outbreak

Answer 3

During 1918 (influenza pandemic)

Question 4

Multinational companies include _____.

Answer 4

Nestle (Switzerland) and Mahindra (India)

Question 5

Civil Rights Act allowed everyone to _____.

Answer 5

vote

Question 6

UN

Answer 6

1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries.

Question 7

Green Revolution

Answer 7

After WW2 - a period of agricultural innovation to get high yield crops, boost food supply, especially for nations with food shortages

Question 8

What is a GMO? Chemical Fertilizer? Pesticides.

Answer 8

Genetically Modified Organism, help plants to grow without environmental disruptions

Question 9

New energy types are ____ and ____.

Answer 9

petroleum, nuclear

Question 10

Green Revolution =

Answer 10

More food = more people

Question 11

Less spread of diseases due to ______.

Answer 11

vaccinations

Question 12

Environmental issues include _______, ______, ______.

Answer 12

deforestation, global warming, access to water

Question 13

What is Globalization?

Answer 13

The world is becoming more smaller. It is more connected.

Question 14

Post cold war we have an increase on _______.

Answer 14

free market economies (capitalism)

Question 15

What is free market economies?

Answer 15

We can buy goods from anywhere, order online

Question 16

Who opens China to the world economy after Mao Zedong?

Answer 16

Deng Xiaoping

Question 17

United States and Reagan

Answer 17

promotes US as a free market economy

Question 18

Knowledge economies are ______________. Examples are ________.

Answer 18

The country develops its economy based on intellectual capital. Finland, Japan, US

Question 19

An agreement that promotes trade between Canada, U.S, and Mexico.

Answer 19

NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)

Question 20

Multinational corporations: ______

Answer 20

Nestle, Coca-cola

Question 21

Manufacturing economies include: _______ and ______.

Answer 21

Vietnam, Mexico

Question 22

“Rights based Discourse”

Answer 22

People are asking for reforms (BLM, Feminism, UDHR)

Question 23

What is the UDHR?

Answer 23

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Question 24

What rights are in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Answer 24

Right to life, liberty, free speech and privacy. It also includes economic, social and cultural rights, like the right to social security, health and education.

Question 25

Access to education, politics, and work

Answer 25

people can vote, end of apartheid, Civil Rights Act 1965

Question 26

Culture Globalization examples:

Answer 26

Bollywood, Kpop, Social Media, Sports Olympics

Question 27

When was the UN created? and why?

Answer 27

1945, composed of 193 member states, to collaborate, made to sustain world peace between countries and resolve issues.