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 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 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 in geographic region.
What is Latin America/South America?
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 are legally incorporated in one country but sells (or makes) its product in others
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?
The man who revolutionized Plant Breeding and kicked off The Green Revolution.
Who is Norman Borlaug?
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 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?
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)
The Paris Climate Agreement
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 (there are so many)
Name three epidemics of the 20th Century.
What are Spanish Flu, HIV/AIDS, and Ebola?