9.1-9.9 Flashcards
Radio
In the 1900s, borught news, music, and culutral events to a wide a range of people.
Shipping containers
Large standard sized units that could be carried on a truck or train or stacked on ship, promted the widespread movement of peopel and goods.
Arab spring
Soical media played a role, anti-goverment spread to Norht Africa and Middle East. 2010
Green Revoultion
Scientist deveopled new varieties of wheat, rice, and other grains that had higer yeilds and greater resitinace to pests, diesease, and drought 20th century.
Cross breading
Breading two varities of a plant ro create a hydrid, during the Green Revolution
Gentic engineering
Manituplating cell orgnaims to chnage its basic charatistercis.
Antibotics
Scottish bioligist, Alexendar Fleming discorvered pencicillin, durong World War 2, from fungi
Birth control
1950s created George pincus, reliadble method than the barrier methods. Dreaces fertility rates.
Vaccinces
Exsited in 1716, to prevent deadly virses after 1900s. Polio, meases, and small pox.
Pandemics and small pox
Epidemic dieases that spread across national borders, like small pox in Egypt
Malaria
Paraitic diease spread by mosqiutoes killled more than 600,000 21th century
Docotrs without Borders
Treated 1.7 million people annuly, prevet malaria
Tuberculosisi
An airborne infection spreads though coughs and sneeze and affects the lungs.
Polio
Water contamintaion like malaria, infected 100,00 new people per year.
Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin
Annouce on APrill 12, 1955 that injectable vaccine against polio, seven years later ALbert Stabin deveopled a vaccine.
AIDS
Cause by ( HIV) - killed over 25 miillon, weaknes the immune system. Unprotet sex, blood tranfusion 1920-2014
Antireoriviral drugs
Could stop HIV from weaking ur immune system. But expsnisve 1990s
Ebola
1917 deadly diease caused by a virus tat infects the African furit bats, humans get the viruse from exposure to fluids of infeted people or anaimsl.m
Heasrt transplant
Firs perfomed. By South African Chrisitan Barnard in 1967. Robert Jarvik led a team that degined an articifial heart used as a temporary device while the patient waited for a compatible human heart.
Alzhemier’s disease
Edlery middle age, lost memory.
Air quality
KI-moon, south Korean ploitican and diplomat concluded that climate chnage was global prombelm and debated the best way to appproach it.
Green Party/ Belt movement
Focuses on enviormental issues and protected the wilderness
Kyoto Protocol
International agreemtn to reduce carbon emissions in 1997.
Anthropocene
New man
Ronald Regan - U.S Margaret Thater - Britian
Cutting taxes, regulations, and goverment asisstnce to the poor as a way to promote economic growth.
Free markets
from rononald and Marget economic system based on supply and demand
Augusto pinochet
Took power in a U.S back coup aganist a democrarically eleted socailst goveremnt led by Salavodr Allende
Deng xiaping
In 1981 became chinese leader, the communist paty backed awayf rom its commitment to economic equality.
NAFTA
US, Canda, and Mexico the norht AMerican Free trade Agremment
Maquiladoras( factories)
In mexico that used that used low-wage Mexican labor to produce tariff-tree goods for foriegn export
Universal Declariton of Human RIghts
1948 United Nations laid groundworks for the bassic rights and fundemental freedoms for all human being
Human rights
Basic protections that are common to all people.
UNICEF
In 1946 to provide food to children in Euroep who were still suffering more than a year after World War 2.
International Court of Jusice
Judicial body set up by UN. Also kown as World Court, it has 15 judges and eahc ust be a citizen of a different country.
Refuges
Un protected people have fleed thier home conturies due to times of war, famine, and natural disaters. Provided food and shelter for them.
Paris Agreement
Gave new hope for progress against global warning. Support by US and china. 2017 Donald trump withdrew.
Asian tigers
Japan economic model hong kong, South Korea, sinapore, Taiwan.
GATT
Lifted restrictive barriers to trade. Protective tariffs whihch are taxed in fieign import had been at a world average eate of 40 percent before GATT
WTO
Took over GATTO
Multinational corporation
Like google and mircosoft
Nergritude movment
In French West Africa emphasized pride in blackness, the rejection of frnech colonial authority andd the right of self determination
Leopold Sedar Senghor
Wrote poems about the the beatuty of African culture
Liberation theology
Combined socialism with Catholism, latin america- pope francis reversed
Civil rights act, voting rights act
Outlawed to discrimate race, color, sex, language, and religion, and votign 1965
Aparthied
1948 segreation of pople based on race
Pass laws
Black had to carry indenity docuent when entering white people teritory
Desomd Tutu
he was no interested in having some part of right but wanted all of them and later became president of south Africa
Nelson Mandela
Leader od ANC improison for going against apratheid then became president of South Africa
Parish state
SOuth Africa was not wanted 1980s
F.w.de Klerk
Released Nelson from Prison
TRC-\
Sought to restore and establish an atmosphere of trust in the new South Africa, expose the truth of human violations that had occur duirng aparttheid
Dalits
Untoched, discrimated by india
Caste reservation system
Goverment guarrenteed entrollment of higher education for underpileged life
Eath day aprill 22
To foucs on enviromental awareness
Greenpeace 1971
Solving desforestation, global warning, etc - save the turtles
Wangari Maatgai
Founded the green belt movemnt in 1977
Throwaway culture
Waste and pollution that was part of the focus on newer,cheaper, more disposable prodcust
Amercanization
American culture to other like India prepoen meatn oppiste of postpone
Hari Krishma
Moevemnt based on Hindu scripture
Falun Gong
Mmovement based on Buddhist and Doasit tradition.
IMF
Work to maximize profit and sacrifce safety and labor conditions.
Ranan Plaza Factory
Eight stry building collapse in Bangladesh
Muhammad Yunus
Banglashes won noble prize of peace
Ecotoruism
Toruing to making money form thier land, coast ricca
Manal a; -sharif
The toold we use for liberation are being used to opppres us and spread fakes news- no beuno
General assembly
Un decided important question on peace and security. Two-thrid mus agree
Security Conucil
US, France, Britian, Russian, and CHina
Secretariat
Influcne the entire organization came from small nation one of the more powerful couldnt recive intruction form home land
Peacekkepin
Resolve promblme peacefully peace/war helped El Salavdor
WFP
Provided food aid 1962 feed 1.4 billion people
UNESCO
Extending free education, and protecitng cuutral enviroment sites.
World Bank
944 social projects suach as education and disease prevention
IMF
Promoting stabel currency exchnage rates
Internation Pease Bureau
1891 for peace, worked for nuclear disarment, reduce military spending
