Concerns
A reason some people welcomed the idea of globalization
What is a wider variety of products?
An automobile manufacturing company that was especially prominent during the rise of consumer culture.
What is Studebaker?
Advances in this device led to a wider variety of possibilities for traveling
What is the automobile?
U.S cultural imports that became known world wide
What is music/films/cars
The first and most successful Green Party, established in 1979 in West Germany.
What is Die Grunen?
A reason people opposed those lower prices
What is the exploitation of workers?
Facilities used to manufacture weapons in WWII before being repurposed for the peacetime era.
What are munition factories?
A box that replaced the radio as the main form of entertainment for many people; unlike the radio, it combined both visual and audio to broadcast entertainment.
What is the television?
The U.S gaining too much control over smaller nations.
What is a reason some Europeans rejected U.S cultural dominance?
To rally public support behind issues such as pollution and nuclear energy.
What is the purpose for the Green Parties?
What some people feared would rise up and overtake smaller cultures.
What is a "global culture"?
Items that were beneficial but mostly served to prove one's social status
What are luxuries?
Originally used for scientific purposes before becoming heavily associated with the internet.
What is a computer?
An American rock star in the 1950's who gained notoriety worldwide for such hits as "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock"
Who is Elvis Presley?
The nuclear disaster that occurred on April 26, 1986 regarded as one of the worst nuclear accidents in history
What is the Chernobyl?
How globalization affects business
What is increasing competition with other nations?
A household appliance used to collect dust and other small particles from the floor using suction; a prime example of a luxury people were able to purchase at this time.
What is a vacuum cleaner?
A device that uses Hertzian waves to broadcasts entertainment, news, and other information.
What are radios?
34th President of the United States, in office from 1953 to 1961 who was also a five star general during WWII.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
The nuclear disaster that occurred in Japan on March 11, 2011
What is Fukushima?