Contemporary Era AP World History Set 6 (cards 67-82) Flashcards
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| 7152892614 | Globalization | -expansion of economic, political, and cultural processes to the point that they become global in scale and impact transcending state boundaries and have outcomes that vary across places and scales. -global economy driven by multinational corporations (businesses with vast holdings in many countries, many of which have annual budgets exceeding that of many foreign governments.) |  | 0 |
| 7153047444 | Global Culture | -technology and migrations led to popular culture becoming more global • Bollywood: Indian movie industry in Bombay incorporation traditional Indian dance form. • Reggae: popular Jamaican music blending blues, calypso, and rock-n-roll; classified by syncopated rhythm and lyrics of social protest; started as a way to protest colonial rule in the Caribbean and Africa. • Sports: World Cup Soccer & the Olympics are important contests that help with the growth of nationalism within individual countries |  | 1 |
| 7152902203 | Global & Regional Trade Agreements | -ASEAN (1967): Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and the Philippines; designed to promote economic progress and political stability; it later became a free-trade zone -OPEC (1960): Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; international cartel that regulate oil supplies and prices. -NAFTA (1994): North American Free Trade Agreement; organization that prohibits tariffs and other trade barriers between Mexico, the United States, and Canada. -Mercosur (1991): S. American organization whose purpose is to expand trade, improve transportation, and reduce tariffs among member countries -European Union (1994): final step in a series of arrangements to increase economic & political cooperation between European states in the wake of World War II;twelve of its members adopted a common currency in 2002. |  | 2 |
| 7152903519 | Global Economic Institutions | -shows importance of economic interdependence and globalization -World Bank: specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic development, trade promotion, and debt consolidation. -International Monetary Fund: a United Nations agency to promote trade by increasing the exchange stability of the major currencies; formed in 1944 at the Bretton Woods Conference, influenced by JM Keynes -World Trade Org.: an international agency which encourages trade b/w member nations administers global trade agreements and resolves disputes when they arise |  | 3 |
| 7153071731 | Asian Tigers | -Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, imitated Japanese strategies -Massive postwar economic expansion, became the first newly industrialized countries, had very high growth rates (they became rich very fast) and fast industrialization between the early 1960s and 1990s. - highly educated and productive work force compared to others in the region -facilitated by information & communications revolutions |  | 4 |
| 7152934543 | World Health Organization | -a United Nations agency concerned with the health and well being of all people; works in developing nations to curb disease and other health related problems; coordinates international health activities and helps governments improve health services |  | 5 |
| 7152948206 | Medical Innovations & Disease | -many vaccines (ex. polio vaccine discovered by Jonas Salk) and increased used of antibiotics increased life expectancy -diseases (ex. malaria, tuberculosis, cholera) persist in in poverty stricken parts of the world -new epidemics emerged that threatened human survival (ex. Ebola, HIV/AIDS) -changing lifestyles and longevity led to higher instances of certain diseases (ex. diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimer's) |  | 6 |
| 7152970714 | Multi-National Corporations (MNC) | -Powerful companies, mainly from the West or Pacific Rim, with production as well as distribution operations in many different countries; Multinationals surged in the decades after World War II -ex. Royal Shell, Coca Cola, Sony |  | 7 |
| 7152979959 | Nongovernmental Organizations | -nonprofit international organizations devoted to investigating human rights abuses and providing humanitarian relief; serve a public purpose, not a private benefit. -Examples.: • the American Red Cross (organization that helps in areas such as helping the needy, providing emergency assistance, and disaster relief and education among many other things), • Doctors Without Borders (humanitarian organization founded 1971 provides medical aid in countries around the world who are facing diseases) • Greenpeace (an international organization that works for environmental conservation and the preservation of endangered species). • Amnesty International (humanitarian organization that fights to protect human rights around the world through media attention, research, and other methods) |  | 8 |
| 7153060953 | Global Warming | -an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes), caused by greater CO2 emissions; the Rio Summit in 1992 focused on developing a global framework for addressing environmental degradation through sustainable development and led to the Kyoto Protocol (international agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to slow global warming) -global impact is uncertain, sea level rise, spread of disease, changing weather patterns, conflict over resources, etc. |  | 9 |
| 7153004066 | Green Revolution | -new agricultural techniques which involved two important practices: the use of new, higher yield seeds, and the expanded use of many fertilizers & pesticides (sometimes causing problems), creating increases in food production. -Genetically modified organisms came into use and this helped in the increase of food; as this metamorphosis contributed to the good health of people around the world, it failed to help the wide-spread famine of the Sub-Saharan African peoples. inability to afford fertilizers, seed and machinery, and the situation worsened with the widespread rapid population growth. -Rachel Carson: published Silent Spring in 1962; documented the environmental damage done by DDT and other pesticides; heightened public awareness at the start of the modern environmental movement. |  | 10 |
| 7153010088 | Women's Rights Movements | -gave women the rights they have and use today and it changed the way many places and societies ran and allowed women to be such an active role in the world, allowed women in many nations suffrage; granted women more control of fertility and transformed sexual practices |  | 11 |
| 7153019260 | Negritude | -a term first developed by the the French in 1930s, and was used as a political literacy movement that promoted pride in having an African heritage. |  | 12 |
| 7153032843 | U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1965 | -aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote; significantly widened the franchise and is considered among the most far-reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history. |  | 13 |
| 7153035219 | 9/11/01 | -attacks launched by the terrorist group al-Qaeda (an international terrorist organization led by Osama bin Laden that claimed responsibility for the attacks) upon the US; led to US involvement in Iraq & Afghanistan, a general War on Terrorism -Islamic renewal: movements in Muslim lands that promote a return to strict adherence to the Quran and the sharia in opposition to key elements of Western culture. |  | 14 |
| 7153045290 | Arab Spring | -Democratic uprisings that arose independently and spread across the Arab world in 2011; originated in Tunisia in December 2010 and quickly took hold in Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan. -showed the desire for Middle Eastern countries to adopt a more Western government -use of technology & social media assisted its spread |  | 15 |
