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| 9818572388 | Neoliberalism | An approach to the world economy that developed in the 1970s which favored reduced tariffs, free movement of the capital, a mobile and temporary workforce, privatization of industry, and the curtailing government efforts to regulate the economy. Its free trade policies made economic growth boom to its biggest ever. However made economies very unstable. | 0 | |
| 9818572389 | reglobalization | The quickening of global economic transactions after WWII, which resulted in total wold output returning to the levels established before the Great Depression and moving beyond them. it seemed really beneficiary. and it still is. However, some groups would rather revert to older systems of economics and politics | 1 | |
| 9818572390 | Transnational corporations | Huge global Businesses that produce goods or deliver services simultaneously in many countries. The biggest winners of globalization. Some of these companies even grew larger than governments and were more powerful than half the countries in the world | 2 | |
| 9818572391 | North/South gap | Growth disparity between the Global North and the Global South that appears to be exacerbated by current world trade practices third world countries in the south require excessive foreign aid. However, if they don't get enough aid jihads and coups can sweep in promising better life | 3 | |
| 9818572392 | anti-globalization | A major international movement that protests the development of the global economy on the grounds that it makes the rich richer and keeps poor regions in poverty while exploiting their labor and environments. the movement burst onto the world stage in 1999 with massive protests at a meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. | 4 | |
| 9818572393 | Prague Spring | Sweeping series of reforms instituted by communist leader Alexander Dubcek in Czechoslovakia in 1968 - movement was crushed by a Soviet invasion. Shows the reverb that globalization create and the consequences it might have if it continued to be oppressive of sorts. | 5 | |
| 9818572394 | Che Guevara | An Argentine revolutionary leader who was Fidel Castro's chief lieutenant in the Cuban revolution. (1928-1967) Argentinean revolutionary leader; he was an aide to Fidel Castro during the Cuban revolution Like the Prague spring his ideas provided hope for people based on communist ideology which capitalist countries saw as a threat. However his assassination just made their anti-capitalist views stronger | 6 | |
| 9818572395 | second-wave feminism | Women's rights movement that revived in the 1960s with a different agenda than earlier women's suffrage movement. (Demanded equal rights in employment and education, the right to control their OWN bodies, and the end of patriarchal domination.) More direct approaches such as protest proved to be more effective than lobbyist approaches and women gained considerable rights during this time | 7 | |
| 9818572396 | fundamentalism | A Protestant Christian movement emphasizing the literal truth of the Bible and opposing religious modernism, which sought to reconcile religion and science. It was especially strong in the Baptist Church and the Church of Christ, first organized in 1906. A challenge against modern ideas similar to the wahhabi movement in islam. A way to disregard capitalism in the search for fundamental ideas. | 8 | |
| 9818572397 | hindutva 1980's | Fundamentalist Hindu movement that became politically important in India in the 1980s by advocating a distinct Hindu identity and decrying government efforts to accommodate other faith groups Along with christian and islamic revolution this provided an alternative to money driven capitalist. Instead it offered a simple life | 9 | |
| 9818572398 | islamic renewal | Large number of movements in Islamic lands that promote a return to strict adherence to the Quran and the Sharia in opposition to key elements of Western culture. a fundamentalist approach to fighting capitalism which was similar to earlier movements which attempted to revive the core Islamic ideas. | 10 | |
| 9818572399 | Al-Qaeda | International terrorist network, led by Bin laden, goal to purge Muslim nations of Western Influence. Carried out the attacks on the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya in 1998, the USS Cole in Yemen in 2000, and the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001 | 11 | |
| 9818572400 | global warming | An increase in the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere. An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes) Although some people believe it's fake or natural others believe that human carbon emissions are connected. This is a big area of political tension | 12 | |
| 9818572401 | environmentalism | A social movement dedicated to protecting the earth's life-support systems for us and all other forms of life. Liberal anti-capitalists attempting to save the environment by promoting healthy and simplistic lifestyles. Usually live in boulder and drink kale smoothies | 13 | |
| 9818572402 | Rachel Carson | Before 1960, the environment was not a big concern for many people, even though companies polluted the Earth with chemicals and smoke. In 1962, she, a biologist, wrote a book called Silent Spring. The book taught people about pollution and how it hurts the environment. | 14 |
