Cold War
The economic difference between the capitalist U.S. and communist USSR.
What is the cause of the cold war?
The overall commander of the Korean War, from the United States.
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
This allowed the U.S. and the world to have a longer lifespan by developing new medicines and genetic engineering.
What are medical innovations?
The U.S. president who successfully got the Berlin Wall to fall and the USSR leader at the same time.
Who are Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev? Each team has 30 seconds to create their own Berlin Wall, using materials found in the classroom to make it as strong as possible.
Different organizations were put in place to improve global trade and resolve conflicts.
How did globalization affect relations between countries? Each team trades points.
The winner of the cold war.
There is not a winner of the cold war, both teams lose all points.
The communist dictator of Cuba during the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
Who is Fidel Castro?
Many epidemics especially affected this group of people, due to lack of access to medical care.
What is the lower class? Each team nominates a person to participate in a limbo contest. Winner gets 500 points.
South African civil rights leader who worked to change the oppressive laws the minority of white leaders put in place against the majority of black citizens.
Who is Nelson Mandala?
Peacekeeping, protecting human rights, protecting refugees, promoting education, and feeding the hungry are a few examples.
What are some of the goals of the United Nations?
Three hundred points to the team that can name the six main bodies of the UN.
The countries occupied and influenced by the USSR to maintain communism.
What are satellite countries? The USSR gets 100 points for each correctly named satellite country (up to five)
A response to the Bay of Pigs from the Soviet Union.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis? Both the Soviets and the United States removed missiles as a result of this. Each team choose a member of the opposite team to be bombed off the team.
Finding new sources of renewable energy sources, lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and increasing awareness.
How did technology advance to help make a healthier environment?
Feminist leader in Pakistan who advocated for women's right and was the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner ever.
Who is Malala Yousafzai?
Children, workers, and the environment are these groups.
What were the three groups most negatively impacted by globalization?
The country and war that the USSR got involved in which ended the detente and angered the U.S.
What is Afghanistan?
The proxy war that was a series of civil wars, during which this country became independent from Belgium.
What is the Republic of Congo?
Crossbreeding and genetic engineering were used to manipulate some plants to grow more easily to combat world hunger.
What were the two technologies utilized by the Green Revolution? The winning team gets to crossbreed (swap a member with) the opposite team.
He developed the first birth control pill in the 1950s. This was much more reliable than previous methods and changed life for women around the world.
Who is Gregory Pincus?
There were many social reforms, which led to increased right for minority groups and world protests.
What changes in socialization did globalization cause?
The belief held by Mikhail Gorbachev that would save the USSR from economic ruin.
What is Perestroika?
A direct telegraph/teleprinter link between the US and the Soviet leaders' offices.
What is the Hot Line?
You must play a game of telephone all the way to one member of the opposite team, with a phrase provided to you. Each team to correctly get the phrase gets 100 bonus points.
He pointed out that progress in medicinal science and government run health measures reduced illnesses and deaths after 1900.
Who is Nathan Wolfe?
India's first woman leader who strengthened the economy of the country greatly.
Who was Indira Gandhi? The team with the most women on it gets 1000 points.
Technology made world cultures and cultures of middle and lower class more available, which was reflected in who was represented in the media.
How did globalization affect popular culture?