Social
Q: What year did women get the right to vote?
A: 1920
Q: What is the Marshall Plan?
A:an economic relief plan to provide aid to countries
Q: What is Pan-Africanism?
A: Unification of ALL (pan) africans.
Q: What is the WTO?
A: World Trade Organization
Q: What was the technological competition between the U.S. and USSR?
A: The Arms Race
Q: What was the Red Scare?
A: American fear of communists and soviet spys in the United States.
Q: What countries were the big three?
A: USSR (Soviet Union), United States(US) , and Great Britain (UK)
Q: How did the invention of birth control increase women’s rights?
A: Gave women the right to choose when to have children, women were not confined to the house, able to start a family on their own time.
Q: What’s a knowledge economy and where did it originate?
A: Began in Finland and creates, distributes, and uses knowledge and information (teachers, scientists, engineers).
Q: What was the main purpose of the Green Revolution?
A: To become a long-term solution to combat world hunger.
Q: What was a result of new healthcare innovations?
A: Increased life longevity and increasing world population.
Q: What was the domino theory?
A:the idea that if one country fell communist others would follow suit
Q: What was the Negritude movement?
A: A movement in French West Africa that emphasized black pride, self-determination, and resistance against French Colonial authority.
Q: What is the purpose of the World Bank?
A: To provide loans to impoverished countries.
Q: What was the first major international agreement to reduce carbon emissions?
A: the kyoto protocol
What were the three biggest innovations that changed society?
A: car, telephone, radio
Q: What global organization was created in order to keep world peace between nations?
A: The United Nations (UN)
Q: What did the UN adopt to promote human rights?
A: the universal declaration of human rights
Q:what is regan -nomics
A:limiting government involvement in the economic sector, and using trickle down instead of pump priming.
Q: What was sputnik, and what event did it kickoff
A:1 first satellite
2 the space race
Q: who was the president during the majority of the cold war
A: John F. Kennedy
Q: Why was the Warsaw pact formed
A: to counterbalance the north atlantic treaty organization
Q: What was the movement in China based on Buddhist and Doaist traditions? Hint: The communist government allowed it at first but began to restrict it.
A:Falun Gong
Q: What's an example of a multinational corporation?
A: Toyota, Nestle, Google
Q: What were the two main things diseases were based on?
A: Diseases due to poverty & living longer