Global Technology
This is threatening our climate in the Amazon rainforest.
What is Deforestation?
This leader of China opened up the country to Capitalism in 1981.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
Created by the UN after WWII to promote human rights.
What is The Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
After NAFTA (The North American Free Frade Agreement) these factories popped up all over the Mexican border.
What are Maquiladoras?
Name a vaccine invented in the 20th century that nearly eradicated a fatal illness.
polio, small pox
What is the name of the organization within the United Nations which helps children?
UNICEF
Revolutions in the middle east starting in 2010. Made possible by social media such as Twitter.
What is Arab Spring?
Mercosur formed a trade bloc in this geographic region.
What is Latin America/South America?
A court set up by The UN in The Hague, Netherlands to prosecute war criminals.
What is The International Court of Justice?
This organization helps manage trade globally; criticized for not protecting workers and enforcing neocolonial arrangements
What is the WTO (World Trade Organization)?
The outbreak of this disease in 1981 which weakens the immune system and is contracted through the exchange of bodily fluids.
HIV/AIDS
Who invented the first polio vaccine?
Jonas Salk (injectable vaccine)
The following are different types of non renewable energy...
Coal, Natural Gas, Oil
These corporations are legally incorporated in one country but sells (or makes) its product in others
What are Multinational Corporations?
The part of the UN that has 5 permanent members (which ones?) and 10 rotating ones and can institute sanctions, authorize uses of force, or condemn global actions; the permanent members have veto power.
UN Security Council; UK, USA, Russia, France, China
Dictator from Chile who was propped up by the US in 1974. Known for his violent tactics.
Who is Augusto Pinochet?
This disease broke out in the region of the Congo. It is spread by the fruit bat, humans and other primates. The disease causes extensive bleeding, organ failure, and for most, death.
Ebola
This is the device that allowed people with severe cases of polio-induced paralysis survive
What is the iron lung?
Nations who focus their economies on information, creation, and spread of knowledge to increase economic success.
What are Knowledge Economies?
Event in 1989 in China that ended in repression by the government, hundreds of deaths, and the end of liberalization in China
What is The Tiananmen Square protests?
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, left again in 2025)
The Paris Climate Agreement
An airborne infection that before 1946 was deadly due to there not being a cure. After 1946, antibiotics and later a vaccine have slowed the deadliness of this disease.
Tuberculosis
Wind, Solar
List one of the Four Asian Tigers to emerge in the 1980's as manufacturing powerhouses.
What are Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan?
Name the 4 racial classifications in apartheid South Africa, the first Black president of South Africa, and the last white president who organized the referendum on dismantling apartheid
white, black, Indian, coloured; Nelson Mandela; F.W. de Klerk
Name two epidemics of the 20th Century.
What are Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS, and Ebola
This is a parasitic disease spread by mosquitoes in tropical areas. A vaccine was developed in 2021 and is in use in some countries.
Malaria