Ap World Ch 14

Question 1

Age of fossil fuels

Answer 1

Shift and energy production with increase of coal and oil, resulting in widespread availability of electricity

Question 2

Economic globalization

Answer 2

Increasing independence of world economies as more global trade and cross-over occurs

Question 3

Asian tigers

Answer 3

Nickname for East Asian countries, export driven economic growth

Question 4

Breton wood system

Answer 4

Name for the agreements and institutions set up to regulate commercial and financial dealings in capitalist countries

Question 5

Transnational corporations

Answer 5

Global businesses that produce goods or deliver services in many countries

Question 6

World trade organization

Answer 6

International body representing 149 nations and charged with negotiating the rules for global commerce and promoting free trade trade

Question 7

NAFTA

Answer 7

Free trade agreement between the us, Mexico, and Canada in 1984

Question 8

Consumerism

Answer 8

Culture of leisure and consumption that developed in tandem with global economic growth and a growing middle class

Question 9

Informal economy

Answer 9

Also known as “shadow economy”, unofficial, unregulated, untaxed economic activity

Question 10

One child policy

Answer 10

Chinese policy of population control to penalize birth to encourage families to have only one child

Question 11

Second wave feminism

Answer 11

Women’s right movement, demanded equal employment, education, and rights to their own bodies and the end of patriarchal domination

Question 12

Feminism in the global south

Answer 12

Mobilization of women across Asia, Africa, and Latin America; focused on colonialism, racism, and poverty and less about gender