Unit 9: Globalization

Essential Question

To what extent did advances in science and technology affect society since the 20th century?

Objectives

1. Explain how the development of new technologies changed the world from 1900 to present.

2. Explain how environmental factors affected human populations over time.

3. Explain the causes and effects of environmental changes in the period from 1900 to present.

4. Explain the continuities and changes in the global economy from 1900 to present.

5. Explain how social categories, roles, and practices have been maintained and challenged over time.

6. Explain how and why globalization changed culture over time.

7. Explain the various responses to increasing globalization from 1900 to present.

8. Explain how and why globalization changed international interactions among states.

9. Explain the extent to which science and technology brought change in the period from 1900 to the present.

Key Terms and Concepts

1. Technological Advances and Limitations After 1900: Disease

   1. Diseases associated with poverty

      1. Malaria

      2. Tuberculosis

      3. Cholera

   2. Emergent epidemic diseases

      1. 1918 influenza pandemic

      2. Ebola

      3. HIV/AIDS

   3. Diseases associated with increased longevity

      1. Heart disease

      2. Alzheimer's disease

2. Economics in the Global Age

   1. Governments' increased encouragement of free-market policies

      1. The United States under ROnald Reagan

      2. Britain under Margaret Thatcher

      3. CHina under Deng Xiaoping

      4. Chile under Augusto Pinochet

   2. Knowledge economies

      1. Finland

      2. Japan

      3. US

   3. Asian production and manufacturing economies

      1. Vietnam 

      2. Bangladesh

   4. Latin American production and manufacturing economies

      1. Mexico

      2. Honduras

   5. Economic institutions and regional trade agreements

      1. World Trade Organizations (WTO)

      2. North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

      3. Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

   6. Multinational corporations

      1. Nestle

      2. Nissan

      3. Mahindra and Mahindra

3. Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900

   1. Challenges to assumptions about race, class, gender, and religion

      1. The UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especially as it sought to protect the rights of children, women, and refugees

      2. Global feminism movements

      3. Negritude movement

      4. Liberation theology in Latin America

   2. Increased access to education and political and professional roles

      1. The right to vote and/or to hold public office granted to women in the United States (1920), Brazil (1932), Turkey (1934), Japan (1945), India (1947), and Morocco (1963)

      2. The rising rate of female literacy and the increasing numbers of women in higher education, in most parts of the world

      3. The US Civil Rights Act of 1965

      4. The end of apartheid 

      5. Caste reservation in India

   3. Environmental movements

      1. Greenpeace 

      2. Professor Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement in Kenya

   4. Economic Movements

      1. World Fair Trade Organization

4. Globalized Culture After 1900

   1. Global Culture

      1. Music: Reggae

      2. Movies: Bollywood

      3. Social Media: Facebook, Twitter

      4. Television: BBC

      5. Sports: World Cup soccer, the Olympics

   2. Global consumerism

      1. Online commerce

         1. Alibaba, ebay

         2. Global brands: Toyota, Coca-Cola

5. Resistance to Globalization After 1900

   1. Responses to economic globalization

      1. Anti-IMF and anti-World Bank activism

      2. Advent of locally developed social media (Weibo in China)