Rights & Protests
This term is used to describe people/groups who are resistant to globalization, protesting globalized organizations like the World Trade Organization (WTO) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) that, as they see it, promote exploitation of workers and cause environmental damage (Hint: Think Anti-IMF type groups)
What are Anti-Globalists
This movement was created in 2013 in America to rally and defend against police brutality and defend the rights and equality of African Americans
What is the Black Lives Matter Movement
This kind of non-renewable energy source is known for its release of greenhouse gasses and harmful effects on the environment
What is Fossil Fuels
This term is used to describe the increasing number of individuals in the 21st century who are unaffiliated with any organized religious group (Hint: This doesn’t necessarily make them atheists but you might use this term to describe an atheist)
What is a Non-Believer
This new air travel technology, originally invented by the wright brothers in 1903, allowed for faster travel and transportation of goods around the globe for relatively cheap through
What is the Airplane
This new medical technology, invented in 1950 in the form of a pill, gave women more freedom and control over their own bodies.
What is Birth Control
Throughout the 50's & 60's, this person fought apartheid, a form of legal segregation, and was jailed for life by the state. Although he would be released later on in the 90's.
Who is Nelson Mandela
This term is used to describe global environmental change as caused by greenhouse gas emissions
What is Climate Change / Global Warming
This term is used to describe the culture expressed by the masses, the culture of the everyday person rather than the educated elite (Hint: Think Pop-music, and the term used to refer to all of the most common culture of the world)
What is Pop-Culture / Popular Culture
This was the name given to the strong Japan-based South Asian economies of Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and South Korea that were heavily focused on exports and business partnerships
What are the Asian Tigers
This modern nation has invented its own form of state controlled social media named Weibo to replace platforms such as Facebook and Twitter that may not view their government kindly. Also, this nation has taken measures to limit knowledge of their misdoings, and specifically information of their mistreatment of the Muslim Uighur population from reaching their citizens
What is China
This system was put into action on February 16 2005 by the United Nations. It committed industrialized countries and economies in transition cleaner energy sources to limit and reduce greenhouse gasses
What is the Kyoto Protocol
This is the process, usually caused by human activity, by which arid or semi-arid lands slowly lose their vegetation, slowly turning into a desert (Ex: The Sahel & Sahara Desert
What is Desertification
This term is used to describe the spread of western/American culture & business throughout the world in the global age
What is Americanization
This international organization deals with the regulation, rules, and smooth flow of trade between nations
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)
This nonviolent movement sought to end legal discrimination against marginalized groups, specifically African Americans in the US throughout the 1950’s and 60’s
What is the Civil Rights Movement
This agreement between 196 different nations on 12 December, 2015 was a treaty on limiting the release of greenhouse gasses and aiding to stop climate change
What is The Paris Agreement
This movement utilized higher crop yield grains and GMOs to fight world hunger
What is the Green Revolution
This Middle class based culture focused more on buying material consumer goods than their job, where they lived or what they believed
What is Consumer Culture
This term is used to describe international trade left to its natural course without tariffs or restrictions and became globally used in multiple countries
What is Free Trade
This is the name of the series of protests against the WTO conference held in the State of Washington in 1999 (Hint: Think famous Washington State cities)
What is the Battle For Seattle
This South African political party, represented by Nelson Mandela, took the presidency in 1994 and has led the country ever since.
What is the African National Congress
This movement fought greenhouse gas emissions and advocated for a balance between human progress and environmental preservation
What is Greenpeace
This offshoot of Roman Catholicism sought to apply theology to fight poverty and oppression in the world, and specifically in South America
What is Liberation Theology
This is the name of factories in Mexico, usually put there by outside nations (specifically the US and Canada), that utilized the low wage labor there to send cheaply made products back to the home nation (Hint: Think NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement)
What are Maquiladoras