Technology and Communication
This global communication network reduced the problem of geographic distance and revolutionized information sharing.
What is the internet?
This economic policy, promoted after the Cold War, encouraged free markets and reduced government regulation.
What is economic liberalization/free-market policies?
This human activity contributed to deforestation, desertification, and declining air quality.
What is industrialization?
This Indian film industry became globally influential, representing the spread of popular culture.
What is Bollywood?
This 1948 document sought to protect universal human rights, especially for children, women, and refugees.
What is the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
This transportation innovation made global trade more efficient.
What are shipping containers (and air travel)?
What is economic liberalization/free-market policies?
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
The release of these gases contributed to debates about climate change.
What are greenhouse gases?
This global sporting event, held every four years, exemplifies globalized culture.
What is the Olympics (or World Cup soccer)?
This movement challenged old assumptions about gender roles and promoted women's rights globally.
What is global feminism?
This agricultural revolution increased productivity through chemically and genetically modified crops.
What is the Green Revolution?
This trade agreement reflected the spread of free-market principles in North America.
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
This intensified as humans consumed more of the world's supply of resources.
What is competition over resources?
These social media platforms transcended national borders and created global communities.
What are Facebook and Twitter?
This African intellectual and cultural movement celebrated Black identity and heritage.
What is the Negritude movement?
These energy technologies increased material production.
What are petroleum and nuclear power?
These economies, like Finland and Japan, specialized in information and communications technology.
What are knowledge economies?
These diseases persisted in areas with poverty.
What are malaria and tuberculosis/
This global soft drink brand represents the spread of consumer culture worldwide.
What is Coca-Cola
This environmental organization, founded in 1971, protested environmental degradation globally.
What is Greenpeace?
These medical innovations increased human life expectancy.
What are vaccines and antibiotics?
This international organization was formed to facilitate global trade and reduce barriers.
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
This early-1900s pandemic demonstrated how diseases could spread rapidly across an interconnected world.
What is the 1918 influenza pandemic?
This online commerce platform based in China demonstrates global economic integration.
What is Alibaba?
This Kenyan environmentalist founded the Green Belt Movement and won the Nobel Peace Prize.
Who is Wangari Maathai?