Tech Breakthroughs
This mid-20th century agricultural shift used hybrid seeds and chemical inputs to boost yields in nations like India.
What is the Green Revolution?
This process, accelerating in the Amazon, disrupts carbon cycles by clearing forests for soybean farming.
What is deforestation?
This Chinese reformer’s 1980s policies created export-driven zones, integrating China into global trade.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
This global trend, driven by Hollywood and K-pop, blends culture but starts local backlash in nations like Iran.
What is consumer culture?
This UN body’s 1945 structure grants veto power to five nations, limiting its response to conflicts like Rwanda’s genocide.
What is the Security Council?
This network, born from 1960s U.S. military research, transformed global communication by enabling platforms like Twitter.
What is the internet?
This resource scarcity, worsened by industrialization, disproportionately burdens women in sub-Saharan Africa with labor-intensive collection tasks.
What is water scarcity?
This economy, emerging in Singapore post-1970s, prioritizes tech innovation over traditional manufacturing.
This platform amplified Tunisia’s 2011 protests, causing the rapid spread of anti-regime media.
What is social media?
This 1948 UN framework, inspired by post-WWII ideals, faced enforcement challenges in apartheid South Africa.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This 1950s pharmaceutical advance reduced global fertility rates but started ethical debates in conservative groups.
What is the birth control pill?
This greenhouse gas, released by livestock and landfills, has a warming potential 25 times greater than carbon dioxide.
What is methane?
These U.S. trained economists changed Chile’s 1970s privatization, connecting it with neoliberal global trends.
Who are the Chicago Boys?
This two-way exchange sees Bollywood films gain Western fans while fast food chains proliferate in Asia.
What is cultural globalization?
This financial body’s structural adjustment programs are criticized for deepening debt in African nations like Zambia.
What is the International Monetary Fund (IMF)?
This Green Revolution consequence saw small farmers displaced due to reliance on costly irrigation and Monsanto’s patented seeds.
What is land consolidation?
This 2015 climate accord’s withdrawal by a major emitter in 2017 undermined efforts to cap warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius.
What is the Paris Agreement?
This 1991 geopolitical shift opened former Soviet states to global markets, similar to Indian Ocean trade expansion.
What is the collapse of the Soviet Union?
This 2010s movement, across Egypt and Yemen, used online networks to challenge authoritarianism, similar to Unit 6’s nationalist revolts.
What is the Arab Spring?
This agreement started in 1994 aimed to make trade easier between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico but faced criticism for increasing income gaps and losing jobs in certain industries.
What is North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?
This 1928 medical discovery, made accidentally in a London lab, became the first antibiotic to treat bacterial infections.
What is penicillin?
This term describes skepticism often funded by fossil fuel industries that delayed global action on climate change
Who are climate-change skeptics?
This trade body's policies during the 1990s, which led to widespread protests over labor exploitation and shares similarities with the anti-imperialist movements in Unit 6.
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
This term refers to the internet censorship framework implemented by the Chinese government, controlling online access and suppressing dissent while promoting state propaganda to keep cultural identity and prevent syncretism.
What is the Great Firewall?
This institution is often evaluated for its megaprojects, such as dams, and their impact on community displacement
What is the World Bank?