Global Technology
This is threatening the climate in the Amazon rainforest.
What is Deforestation?
This leader of China opened up the country to Capitalism in 1981.
Who is Deng Xiaping?
Created by the UN after WWII to promote human rights.
What is The Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Artists whose songs are a mixture of Korean and English, led to more popularity for South Korean goods
What is K-Pop
After NAFTA (The North American Free Frade Agreement) these factories popped up all over the Mexican border.
What are Maquiladoras?
Revolutions (anti government protests) in the Middle East starting in 2010. Made possible by social media such as Twitter.
What is Arab Spring?
Organizations like the European Union (EU) and NAFTA were formed for this main purpose: to reduce barriers and increase what between member nations
What is "free" trade/ economic integration
A court set up by The UN in The Hauge, Netherlands to prosecute war criminals.
What is The International Court of Justice?
A blend of film styles in India. (they make more films than any other country)
What is Bollywood?
This organization helps manage trade globally.
What is the WTO (World Trade Organization)?
The following are different types of renewable energy...
What is Wind and Solar Power?
These corporations have their headquarters in one country but sells (or makes) its product in others. Their subsidiaries, manufacturing plants, and offices are often in various nations (at least two).
What are Multinational Corporations?
The man who helped end Apartheid in South Africa and became its first elected president?
Who is Nelson Mandela?
A type of culture where more people learn about American culture; some resent it, viewing the US as “throwaway culture” of waste and pollution.
What is Americanization?
Dictator from Chile who was propped up by the US in 1974. Known for his violent tactics.
Who is Augusto Pinochet?
These were three key features of the mid-20th century Green Revolution, which transformed agriculture in countries like India and Mexico
What are high-yield crops, chemical fertilizers, and irrigation technology
Nations who focus their economies on information, creation, and spread of knowledge to increase economic success.
What are Knowledge Economies?
Event in 1980's China that ended in both bloodshed and the end (at least on a large public scale) of China's fight for Democracy.
What is The Tiananmen Square Massacre?
New forms of Buddhism, Sufism, and others adapted mostly for the West.
What is New Age Religions?
Name three epidemics of the 20th Century.
What are Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS, and Ebola (and others)
Name at least three of the six major vaccines created in the 20th century.
What are Polio, Measles, Smallpox, Mumps, Measles, Tetanus?
List the Four Asian Tigers to emerge in the 1980's as manufacturing powerhouses.
What are Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan?
List the two legislative acts that broadened civil rights in the the United States in the 1960's
What are the 1965 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act
Name five Global Brands
What are (Spain gets to fact-check )
A climate agreement that was made in 2015 that encouraged 195 countries to lower their emissions. (The US left in 2017 under Pres. Trump, rejoined in 2021 under Pres. Biden, Trump started the withdrawl process in Jan. 2025)
What is The Paris Climate Agreement