Globalization
What is the term for the process where countries around the world become more connected?
What is Globalization?
Most countries in the Europe use this same type of money.
What is Euro?
Where is the main headquarters of the United Nations located?
What is New York City?
These are the three countries that made up the original NAFTA group.
Are the United States, Canada, and Mexico?
This organization acts like a referee to make sure global trade is fair.
What is the World Trade Organization?
This ”super highway” of the 1990s allowed information to move across the world instantly.
What is the internet?
If you live in a European country, you can usually move to another European country to work without a special permit, is it true or false?
What is True?
What is the main mission of the UN?
What is to maintain world peace and safety?
This two word term describes trading between countries without being charged extra taxes or fees.
What is free trade?
This is what the WTO does when two countries have a big disagreement over trade rules.
What is settles the dispute?
What do you call it when a company moves its factories to another country where it is cheaper to make things?
What is outsourcing?
What was the main goal of starting the European Union after World War Two?
What is stopping countries from fighting and keeping peace?
These UN soldiers wear bright head gear and try to stop conflicts without fighting.
Who are the Peacekeepers?
This is the main reason some American workers were afraid of NAFTA.
What is losing jobs to other countries?
The WTO works hard to get countries to lower these import taxes.
What are tariffs?
This term describes the spread of ideas (like a McDonalds in every country).
What is Cultural Diffusion?
What was the name of the event where the United Kingdom decided to leave the European Union?
What is Brexit?
The specific part of the United Nations has five permanent members who can veto.
Who are the Security Counsils?
This is the main reason some American workers were afraid of NAFTA.
What is losing jobs to other countries?
This is something that WTO can do to a country if they are caught breaking rules.
What is giving a fine/punishment?
Globalization has led to these type of companies that operate in many different countries at once.
What is Multinational Corporations?
Member countries in the European union agreed to stop charging these extra taxes on products they sell to each other.
What is tariffs?
What is the name of the document the UN wrote in 1948 to say that everyone in the world deserves basic rights?
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This is what happened to the amount of trade between the US, Canada, and Mexico after NAFTA started.
What is increased?
These are the two things critics say the WTO ignores while trying to make companies rich.
What are the environment and workers rights?