Historical Globalization 1
The condition and study of societies after formal colonial rule has ended, including the lasting political, economic, and social effects.
Post-Colonialism
Political boundaries drawn by outside (often colonial) powers without regard to existing ethnic, linguistic, or cultural groupings.
Arbitrary/artificial borders
Payments a defeated country makes to make up for damage it caused in a war, such as the payments Germany was ordered to make after World War I.
Reparations
An organization formed in 1945 to keep world peace and protect human rights. It replaced the League of Nations, and Canada was a founding member.
United Nations
What is the world’s largest island?
Greenland
The authority of a group, nation, or people to govern itself.
Sovereignty
The right of a people to determine their own political status and pursue their own economic, social, and cultural development.
Self-determination
Shipping goods in standard-sized boxes that can be moved easily between ships, trains and trucks.
Containerization
A penalty, often economic, used to pressure a government into
following certain rules or taking certain actions.
Sanctions
Name the Great Lakes (5 of them)
Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, Ontario
A network of church-run, government-funded boarding schools (operating from the 1830s to 1996) designed to assimilate Indigenous children by separating them from family, language, and culture.
Residential school system
The continued economic, political, or cultural control of a former colony by outside powers or global markets after formal independence.
Neocolonialism
Reducing or removing restrictions and barriers on trade between countries.
Trade Liberalization
A company based in one country that makes its products or delivers its services in many countries.
Transnational Corporation
The only continent that touches all four hemispheres
Africa
A policy or process of forcing/encouraging a minority group to adopt the culture, language, or customs of a dominant group.
Assimilation
The dispersal of a population from its homeland due to conflict/persecution.
Forced displacement
A conference held in New Hampshire in July 1944 that set up the IMF and the World Bank.
Bretton Woods Conference
The spread of trade, transportation and communication systems around the world in order to promote worldwide commerce.
Economic Globalization
In what continent would you find the earth's Largest desert?
Antarctica
A large group of people who have left their homeland and are scattered across different regions or countries.
Diaspora
A conflict in which outside powers support opposing sides without directly engaging in combat themselves.
Proxy conflict
Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement
The "original" WTO
General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT)
The largest Canadian territory by land area
Nunavut