Technology
This communication technology allows instant global messaging and information sharing.
What is the internet?
These medical advances helped humans live longer and healthier lives, through the prevention of diseases and or the treatment of diseases or bacteria.
What are vaccines and antibiotics?
This organization regulates global trade and resolves trade disputes.
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
This UN document aimed to protect the rights of all people worldwide.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Facebook and Twitter are an example of what global interaction?
What is social media?
This form of transportation dramatically reduced travel time between continents.
What is air travel?
This disease, spread by mosquitoes, is closely linked to poverty.
What is malaria?
This trade agreement linked the economies of the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
This movement expanded voting and political rights to women.
What is the women's suffrage movement?
This Indian movie industry produces films watched across the globe.
What is Bollywood?
These standardized containers revolutionized global shipping by lowering costs.
What are shipping containers?
This global pandemic killed millions shortly after World War I.
What was the 1918 influenza pandemic?
This regional organization promotes economic cooperation in Southeast Asia.
What is ASEAN?
This U.S. law prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal.
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1965?
This Caribbean music genre became popular worldwide.
What is reggae music?
This energy technology produces massive power but raised concerns about safety and waste, especially after global incidents in Ukraine and Japan.
What is nuclear energy?
This disease became a global crisis beginning in the late 20th century.
What is HIV/ AIDS?
This country is known for a strong education system and a knowledge-based economy, and is located in Europe.
What is Finland?
This system of legal racial segregation ended in South Africa in the early 1990s.
What was apartheid?
Companies that have gained popularity/ expanded worldwide, for example Toyota and Coca-Cola
What are global brands?
Genetically modified crops, fertilizers, and herbicides were central to this agricultural movement.
What is the Green Revolution?
Heart disease and Alzheimer’s are examples of diseases linked to this demographic trend.
What is increased life expectancy or increased longevity?
Japan and the United States are examples of economies that rely heavily on this.
What is a knowledge economy?
This policy in India sought to improve opportunities for historically disadvantaged groups.
What is the caste reservation?
China created this platform as a local alternative to Western social media.
What is Weibo?