BLUE
a form of nature-oriented tourism intended to contribute to the conservation of the natural environment
Ecotourism
Provide 3 examples of technological innovations that increased global trade
Airplanes, Shipping Containers, The Internet, Computers, Vaccines, etc.
The international organization created in 1995 to regulate global trade is the __________________________.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
The Soviet response to the Marshall Plan was __________________________.
Warsaw Pact
Provide 2 examples of E-commerce companies that we talked about in class
Alibaba, Amazon, eBay
The assassination of __________________________ in 1914 triggered a chain reaction of alliances that led to World War I.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
one of the most transformative periods in modern agricultural history. Emerging during the mid-20th century, it marked a global effort to enhance agricultural productivity through scientific innovation
Green Revolution
a South African anti-apartheid activist and statesman who was the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999
Nelson Mandela
The 2015 global climate agreement is known as the __________________________.
The Paris Agreement @ UN Climate Change Conference
The peace settlement that ended World War I, the __________________________, imposed heavy reparations on Germany.
Treaty of Versailles
a foundational UN document, adopted in 1948, that outlines fundamental human rights for all people, drafted by a committee chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Provide 3 types of environmental degradation that we read about in class
Soil Erosion, Desertification, Deforestation, Water/Air Pollution, Loss of Biodiversity
Provide 3 examples of popular culture that spread across the world that we talked about in class
K-Pop, Reggae, Bollywood, Anime
Factories in Mexico that used low wage mexican labor to produce tarif-free goods for export
Maquiladoras
a period of political liberalization and mass protest in the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic that was brutally repressed by the USSR
Prague Spring
The process by which European powers divided and claimed territories in Africa during the late 19th century is known as the __________________________.
Scramble for Africa
is an organization and social movement based in Kenya. aiming to empower women and conserve the environment
Green Belt Movement
Provide 3 organizations that increased global trade
WTO, NAFTA, ASEAN, World Bank, EU
The Chinese leadership imposed martial law in Beijing on May 20. The protests continued. On the night of June 3 and 4, the People's Liberation Army stormed _________________ with tanks, crushing the protests with terrible human costs. Estimates of the numbers killed vary
Tiananmen Square
police cracked down on protestors with pepper spray, tear gas, rubber, and plastic bullets, concussion grenades, curfews, and mass arrests. What began as a protest against global free trade concluded as an anti-police brutality protest.
Battle of Seattle
anti-colonial cultural and political movement founded by a group of African and Caribbean students in Paris in the 1930s who sought to reclaim the value of blackness and African culture
Negritude Movement
an economy where members acquire, create, disseminate and apply knowledge to facilitate economic and social development. Human intelligence is the key engine of economic development
Knowledge Economies
Provide 4 (of the 6) UN Charters
the General Assembly (GA), the Security Council (SC), the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), the Trusteeship Council, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the UN Secretariat
Provide 3 examples of disease that has impacted lower-income countries
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Malaria, Cholera
relating to or denoting the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.
Anthropocene