Unit 9 Vocab

Question 1

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 1

Leader of the Civil Rights movement, led to the end of segregation and Jim Crow law.

Question 2

Nelson Mandela

Answer 2

South Africa’s first black head, led to the end of apartheid.

Question 3

New modes of communication

Answer 3

New forms of telephones, texting, cell phones, and calling.

Question 4

Green Revolution

Answer 4

A great increase in the production of food grains.

Question 5

Medical Innovations

Answer 5

Consists of vaccines, antibiotics, and treatments.

Question 6

Covid-19 Pandemic

Answer 6

A worldwide pandemic caused by an illness from China.

Question 7

Diseases of poverty

Answer 7

Tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV/AIDS

Question 8

Diseases of longevity

Answer 8

Hypertension, cancer, and Alzheimers disease

Question 9

Causes of environmental change

Answer 9

Push for cleaner transportation, factories, and people.

Question 10

Economic Liberalization

Answer 10

The promotion of free trade, and a great increase in imports.

Question 11

Deng Xiaoping

Answer 11

Leader of China after Mao Zedong’s death in 1967. Led China to become the world’s greatest purchasing power of all time.

Question 12

Knowledge Economy

Answer 12

An economy or system based on intellectual capital.

Question 13

World Trade Organization

Answer 13

Organization in charge of the trade between nations across the globe.

Question 14

Multinational Corporations

Answer 14

An international enterprise or corporation that has business within 2 or more countries.

Question 15

ASEAN

Answer 15

Association of Southeast Asian Nations, gave benefits to countries within the group such as economic support and social progress.

Question 16

UN Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 16

A document explaining all of the rights of one within the United Nations.

Question 17

US Civil Rights Act 1965

Answer 17

A series of peaceful protests and gatherings in response to the increasing influence of segregation and Jim Crow law.

Question 18

Green Belt Movement

Answer 18

An organization started to meet the environmental needs of women who reported that their food supplies were beginning to run out.

Question 19

Bollywood

Answer 19

A Bombay cinema, similar to “Hollywood,” but just in India.

Question 20

World Cup Soccer

Answer 20

Soccer matches between nations and countries.

Question 21

United Nations

Answer 21

An organization founded in 1945 after WW2 by 51 countries to promote better health and living and social progress.