Technology
This project allowed for larger crop yields in more challenging places to grow food.
Green Revolution
When the Sahara grows, this is what’s happening to our planet.
Desertification
Nations like Finland, Japan, and other "Asian Tigers" began changing toward this kind of economy.
Knowledge Economy
This man emulated the non-violent protest of Gandhi to earn civil and voting rights for African-Americans.
Dr Martin Luther King / MLK
The world gathers around their TVs and radios every four years to watch this soccer tournament.
The World Cup
This black gold fueled increased economic productivity in the 20th century.
Petroleum or Oil
The loss of the Amazon Rainforest contributes to____________.
Deforestation
Neo-liberalism, the freeing of markets from taxation and regulation was enthusiastically embraced by this U.S. President leading to the concept of trickle-down economics ("Reaganomics").
Ronald Reagan
This document of the world sought to lay out the fundamental rights and freedoms of humanity.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Artists that mix English and Korean languages and musical styles.
K-Pop
Margaret Sanger changed the economy and society with this invention.
Birth control or "The Pill"
These inventions allow humanity to harness the power of the sun, the wind, the earth, and the waves.
Renewable energy / Clean energy / Windmills/ Solar Panels
Manufacturing moved to South East Asian countries to avoid regulation and lower labor costs. This particular country has some sad renown as the home of manufacturing fires that killed multiple workers.
Bangladesh
Pro-democracy activists demonstrated after the death of a high-level government figure sympathetic to their desire for more democratic reforms. Many of the protestors were students, professors, and urban workers, and hundreds if not thousands of the protesters were killed by their government in this location.
Tiananmen Square
Forms of Buddhism, Sufism, and other Eastern faiths that are adapted to suit Western sensibilities are known as____________?
New Age movement
This disease was eradicated by vaccines in 1977.
Smallpox
The WHO predicts that by 2025 over 1/2 of the world’s population will lack_______.
Clean water
One of many organizations created after WWII to allow ease of trade, this one set the rules of trade, encouraged free trade, and even supported fair labor laws.
WTO / World Trade Organization
This movement celebrates black culture and history through music, art, and literature.
Negritude
This nation makes more films than any other country.
India / Bollywood
Humanity first used this in Alamogordo in 1945.
Nuclear Bomb/ Atomic Bomb
Developed nations (US/ W Europe) argued that developing nations (ex. China and India) needed to limit the increased output of CO2; the US did not ratify this Protocol.
Kyoto Protocol
Due to the development of this trade agreement in 1994, maquiladoras (factories) were set up in Mexico and many American manufacturing jobs shifted to Latin America where there are low wages.
NAFTA/ North America Free Trade Agreement
As of 2018, this one small country does not allow women the right to vote.
The Vatican
Popular Rastafarian musical artist, best known for his anti-colonial lyrics
Bob Marley