Technology & Innovation
This transportation innovation accelerated globalization by drastically lowering shipping costs and increasing international trade efficiency.
Shipping Containers
This global epidemic became one of the deadliest diseases of the late 20th century.
HIV/AIDS
This trade agreement linked the economies of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
NAFTA
This South Korean music genre became one of the clearest examples of modern global popular culture.
K-Pop
This movement resulted in Britain leaving the European Union in 2016.
Brexit
This medical development greatly reduced deaths from infectious disease and transformed global public health in the 20th century.
Antibiotics / Vaccines
This mosquito-borne disease remained widespread in poorer tropical regions despite modern medical advances.
Malaria
These businesses became major drivers of globalization by operating production and sales across multiple countries.
Multinational Corporations
This term describes the spread of American cultural influence around the world through media, brands, and entertainment.
Americanization
This Chinese social media platform reflected government resistance to Western digital influence.
This agricultural movement dramatically increased food production in developing countries.
The Green Revolution
This international medical organization became known for humanitarian relief during global health crises and conflicts.
Doctors Without Borders
This international organization replaced GATT and became responsible for enforcing global trade rules.
The World Trade Organization (WTO)
This global trend encouraged mass consumption of products, entertainment, and media across societies.
Consumer Culture
This ethnic minority group became internationally associated with Chinese repression and resistance to separatism.
Uighurs
This person is most famous for developing the first successful vaccine against poliomyelitis (polio) in 1955
Jonas Salk
He will be remembered as the surgeon who had the courage to carry out the world's first heart transplant using a heart from a deceased human donor.
Christiaan Barnard
This Chinese leader reshaped China’s economy through market reforms while maintaining Communist Party rule.
Deng Xiaoping?
Pakistani activist for female education and women's rights, and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate in history
Malala Yousafzai
UK's second female Prime Minister (2016–2019), who led the country through the initial, turbulent stages of Brexit negotiations following the 2016 referendum.
Theresa May
This is the historical significance of communication and transportation technologies.
Shrinking geographical distance between various places.
This problem meant that some countries had much better medical care and technology than others.
Access to medical technology has not been equal across the world.
This is the historical significance of Globalized Economies related to multinational corporations and free trade agreements.
Led to a new global distribution of work.
This is the historical significance of a globalized culture related to arts, entertainment, & sports.
A rise of a recognizable global culture across the world.
This is the historical significance of Anti-Globalization related to actions that governments/people take to resist globalization.
- Global approach to economics challenges and undermines more local economic decisions
- Remove themselves from global institutions
- Resist the intrusion of globalized culture by developing their own social media sites.