New Technology
What replaced the radio as the dominant form of entertainment for much of the developed world?
The Television
What is a significant fossil fuel that is used to do things such as power cars and planes as well as produce electricity for cities.
Petroleum
What invention was created in the 1900s that gave women more control over the number of kids they had?
Birth Control Pill
What does a free market mean for a country?
Government is hands off of economic policies
What is the increasing economic, political, and social interconnectedness of the world?
Globalization
The rise of personal computers gave way to a mass form of interconnectedness through the internet institution knows at the what?
World Wide Web
What effect did Petroleum have on industrial manufacturing across the globe?
Increased production and Demand
What year was there a major Influenze pandemic that killed millions of people around the world?
1918
What type of workers are characterized by using their minds for technological advanes instead of their bodies for things like farming
Knowledge Workers
What form of music spread throughout the world in the 1970s displaying the capability of worldwide entertainment explosions
Reggae
Shipping Containers
Why was Nuclear energy supposed to be better than fossil fuel use according to scientists in the 1950s
It is much cleaner than Fossil Fuels
What demographic of people did the Influenza pandemic affect most?
Working Age People
What country was largely Agrarian before the 20th century but later invested heavily into its technological sector and started to build its economy off innovation?
Finland
Coca-Cola and Toyota
Why were far more people able to use Air Travel after WWII?
More people could afford it due to their prosperous economies
What primary source of energy was used before this time but was discovered to be not as efficient as Petroleum?
Coal
Which two medical breakthroughs helped with the spread of disease to widespread populations
Vaccines and Antibiotics
Larger countries could pay less money for developing countries to make goods in things like sweat shops.
What two world leaders led the charge for governments to be less restrictive and to direct the government to back off the economy?
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher
In the 1930s approximately how many families had radios in their homes?
12 million
Explain the Dilemma that Developing nations face when it comes to Climate Change?
Industrialization is their only means to economic growth, which leads to more and more climate change.
What region of the world do diseases like Malaria affect most?
Sub-Saharan Africa
Where is Nestle headquartered at, and where do they produce their products?
Switzerland and West Africa
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