World War II
Centralized, authoritarian government that glorifies the state over the individual and is rooted in extreme nationalism.
What is fascism?
US theory that stated, if one country would fall to communism then they all would.
What is domino theory?
After gaining independence from Great Britain in 1947, one country was separated into these two through partition.
What are India and Pakistan?
The process of increasing the connectivity and interdependence of the world's markets and businesses. This process has speeded up dramatically in the last two decades because of the advent of the internet
What is globalization?
This regional trading and political organization is the most powerful in the market.
What is the European Union?
An international organization formed after WWII to promote international peace, security, and cooperation.
What is the United Nations?
This 1947 plan proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This was the nickname given to Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and China because of their economic development in the modern era.
What is the Asian Tigers?
These are three examples of political globalization.
What is the United Nations, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and European Union, etc.?
Founded in 1995, a global institution created to promote international trade and to settle international trade disputes
What is the World Trade Organization?
What is Lebensraum or living space?
Winston Churchill's term for the Cold War division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Egypt seized control of this, which ran along its eastern border and the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Suez Canal?
These are three examples of economic globalization.
What are the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and World Trade Organization, etc.?
A society no longer based primarily on the production of material goods but instead on the production of ideas, information, and high skill levels.
What is a knowledge economy?
At this conference near the end of WWII, the Soviets revealed their distrust for the allies and wish for a buffer between Western Europe and Eastern Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
Economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party from 1958 to 1962 that aimed to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of communes.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
Provide 3 strategies colonies used to gain independence.
What are boycotts, negotiations, protests, etc.?
These are three examples of cultural globalization.
What are the spread of food, music, sports, etc.?
This refers to obtaining goods or a service from a foreign supplier, especially in place of an internal source.
What is outsourcing?
In 1944, delegates from 44 Allied countries met in the US to discuss the postwar economic order. This agreement established a system of rules, institutions and procedures.
What is the Bretton Woods Agreement?
These two parallels divided communist North Korea from anti-communist South Korea and communist North Vietnam versus anti-communist South Vietnam.
What is the 38th and 17th parallel?
List two challenges newly independent nations faced.
What is political corruption, social inequality, poverty, high unemployment, etc.?
This refers to large business organizations operating in a number of different national economies.
What is multinational corporation?
Agricultural revolution of the mid-20th century that increased production through improved seeds, fertilizers, and irrigation and helped to support rising populations.
What is the Green Revolution?