Unit 9 - Globalization

Arab Spring

Protests across the arab world organized through social media and cellular technology

Green revolution

Scientists developed strains of wheat and other grans which grew quicker and were more resistant to disease and insects

Commercial farmer

as more technology was used for farming, new tech was too expensive for smaller farmers to use, so small farms were consolidated into corporations

antibiotics

new drug which helped kill bacteria and prevent wounds from getting infected

penicillin

the first antibiotic

vaccines

help protect people from diseases like smallpox and polio

birth control

allowed women to participate more in the workforec.

Deforestation

due to increased agricultural demand, the amount of land available for forests has decreased

Desertification

once fertile land becoming desert-like due to deforestation and droughts

Great Smog

1952, a severe air pollution event in london where a heavy cloud of lethal smoke covered the city for five days, killing at least 4000 people

Kyoto protocol

1997 An international agreement to reduce carbon emissions

Paris agreement

2016 An international agreement to reduce carbon emissions

Ronald Reagan

US president during the 70s

Margaret Thatcher

PM of UK during the 70s

Deng Xiaoping

Leader of the CCP during the 80s, opened china’s economic policies somewhat, allowing for some private ownership

Augusto Pinochet

Dictator in Chile who opened chile’s economy to the free market

Chicago boys

A group of economists who helped to solve economic problems in Chile

Knowledge economy

AN economy which depends on the quality and quantitiy of information available, which can then be monetized as a commodity (teachers, engineers, etc.)

Transnational Free Trade agreements

agreements between nations to get rid of limits to trade

North American free trade agreement (NAFTA)

a deal between the US, Canada and Mexico which says that there will be no tariffs on Mexican goods coming into the US and Canada

Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)

a trade agreement between many different SE Asian nations

World Trade organization

An organization which aims to promote global trade by reducing tariffs and quotas

multinational corporations

corporations which employ knowledge workers int heir own countries, manufacture in other countries, and sell to people all over the world

Universal declaration of Human rights

document written by teh UN which sought to protect the human rights of citizens of the global community

UNICEF

a branch of the UN which aims to help protect the rights fo children

Negritude movement

a movement to celebrate blackness in french west africa

Liberation theology

a strain of chrisitanity popular in latin ameria which beleives that jesus is on teh side of the poor and opressed

apartheid

a strict policy of segregation in SOuth Africa

Caste Reservation system

a system in india which reserves a portion of jobs and opportunities for people coming from the oppressed dalit caste and other low castes

Uighur Reeducation camps

Chinese camps which “reeducate” the uighur muslim minority in chinas north west

Tiananmen Square protests

Pro-democracy protests in china which were brutally suppressed when the chinese military attacked unarmed protestors

Greenpeace

An organization which advocates for poorer nations which face the environmental downsides of globalization

Green Belt

A movement founded by Wangari Maathai in Kenya which advocates for environemental improvement in Kenya

Americanization

the global spread of american culture and values due to the prominence of american products and movies