PK Quiz Chapter 14 and 15 Flashcards
Electric Grids
Generated power and transmitted electricity widely to homes and businesses
Communication Revolution
Modern transformation of communication technology, from the nineteenth-century telegraph to the present-day smart phone
Asian Tigers
South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong
Breton-Woods System
Name for the agreements and institutions (including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund) set up in 1944 to regulate commercial and financial dealings among the major capitalist countries
NAFTA
Free trade agreement between the United States, Mexico, and Canada, established in 1984
Export Processing Zone
Areas where international companies can operate with tax and other benefits, offered as an incentive to attract manufacturers
Women’s Department
A distinctive organization, known as Zhenotdel, within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that worked to promote equality for women in the 1920s with conferences, publications, and education
Green Revolution
Innovations in agriculture during the twentieth century, such as medical harvesters, chemical fertilizers, and the development of high-yielding crops, that enabled global food production to keep up with, and even exceed, growing human numbers.
Global Urbanization
The explosive growth of cities after 1900, caused by the reduced need for rural labor and more opportunities for employment in manufacturing, commerce, government, and the service industry.
Megacities
Very large urban centers with populations of over 10 million
Influenza Pandemic
The worst pandemic in human history, caused by three waves of influenza that swept across the globe in 1918 and 1919, carried by demobilized soldiers, refugees, and other dislocated people returning home from WWI; between 50 million and 100 million people died in the pandemic
HIV/AIDS
A pathogen that spreads primarily through sexual contact, contaminated blood products, or the sharing of the needles; after sparking a global pandemic in the 1980s, it spread rapidly across the globe and caused tens of millions of deaths
Hindutva
A Hindu nationalist movement that became politically important in India in the 1980s; advocated a distinct Hindu identity and decried government efforts to accommodate other faith communities, particularly Islamic
BJP Party
The Hindutva movement took political shape in this increasingly popular party that promoted a distinctly Hindu identity in education, culture, and religion; BJP swept a victory in national election in 2014
Muslim Brotherhood
Egyptian religious and nationalist movement founded by Hasan al-Banna in 1928; became an example for later fundamentalist movements in the Islamic world