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40 Cards in this Set
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What factors contributed to economic globalization during the 20th century |
Technological advances that lowered Transportation cause dramatically |
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What effects did the Bretton Woods system have on globalization after World War II |
And establish rules for commercial and financial dealings among major capitalist countries |
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what reflects a Neo liberal approach to Economic Development |
Privatization of state-run companies |
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Beginning in the 1960s what were identified as key issues and Western feminism by women of color |
Ending racism and poverty |
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What represents a pattern of global migration since the 1960s |
The movement of people from developing countries to industrialized world |
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What has been a contentious issue between the global North and the global South since 1945 |
The availability of and terms for foreign aid |
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What describes the effect of economic globalization on Wealthy Nations like the United States |
A shifting Global division of Labour resulted in the loss of many manufacturing jobs |
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What do those who speak of an American Empire point to in support of their opinion |
American economics military and cultural influence around the world |
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In contrast to feminists who fought for equal rights feminists who assumed the test of women's liberation |
Challenge patriarchy through direct action |
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What reflects a response of African feminists to Western feminism in the 1970s and Beyond |
They criticized Western feminism as a form of cultural imperialism |
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What characterized the response of religious fundamentalism to Global modernity |
A selective rejection of certain aspects of modernity |
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what has been a goal of Islamic fundamentalist groups in the Muslim world since the 1970s |
To create distinctly Islamic modernity not dependent on Western ideas |
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What factor led Osama Bin Laden and the leaders of Al Qaeda to declare the United States as the enemy |
US military presence in Saudi Arabia after the defeat of Iraq in 1991 |
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What was more Central issue in environmental movement's and developing countries than those Industrial West |
Securing Food Supplies |
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What was a distinctive feature of environmental movements in the global South |
The involvement of poor people |
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What highlights the global mobility of capital in the world since 1945 |
Foreign direct Investments |
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In the permissive economic climate of recent decades transnational corporations frequently relocate their facilities in search of |
The least restrictive environmental regulations |
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What opposed neoliberal globalization and offered an alternative approach expressed in the slogan another world is possible |
World social forum |
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The map showing the global distribution of McDonald's highlights which aspect of the so-called American Empire |
Soft power |
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What was the original meaning of the phrase third world |
An alternative to western capitalism a soviet communism |
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What issues was more Central to women's movements in the global South than in the industrial West |
Economic survival |
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What is considered a success of the international women's movement |
International recognition that women's rights are human rights |
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How has modernity, science and globalization been affected by the world religion since 1945 |
Religion offered a means to oppose elements of a secular and Global modernity |
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What is a feature of religious fundamentalism |
Militant piety |
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What represents the use of religion as a basis to fight for social justice human rights and the end of poverty |
Liberation theology |
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What do the Gulen movement in turkey and the Amman message issued in Jordan in 2005 Share in Common |
Both affirmed violent Jihad as a legitimate part of Islamic life |
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Describing the current ERA since the Industrial Revolution as the Anthropocene era calls attention to the |
Social inequalities generated by Economic Development |
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What has contributed to the environmental changes of the 20th century |
The explosive increase in the world population |
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What did nineteenth-century strands of environmentalism share in common |
None of them had a mass following |
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By 1980 most industrialized countries reached a fairly stable population level but population growth in non-industrialized countries continued at a very high rate the most likely explanation for this difference is that |
Children are a more important source of Labor and agriculture than an industrial societies |
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In what region of the world do the largest number of Muslims live |
South and Southeast Asia |
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The graph above suggest what |
Changes in the gender balance Eastern European agriculture countered the worldwide trend |
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20th century consumerism differed from that of the nineteenth Century in part because of |
The rise of professional advertising |
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What statement reflects the main idea expressed in the excerpt above |
Foreign debts result in higher prices for basic Commodities which affect women most |
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The main reason for the founding of the European Community was to |
Facilitate trade and economic development within Europe |
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What statement is true about the world at the end of the 20th century |
The pace and intensity of international contacts accelerated as a result of transportation and communication breakthroughs |
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What was a major effect of the globalization of the world economy during the last decade of the twentieth and the first decade of the 21st Century |
Rapid economic growth in many countries that lowered trade barriers and increase their participation in global trade |
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What was the leading cause of the unprecedented increase in global population in the 20th century |
The impact of medical Innovations and public health measures |
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What was a significant environmental effect of the globalization of the world economy in the period 1980 to the present |
Wow air and water quality generally improved in the developed World they deteriorated in many parts of the developing world |
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Some historians consider the late nineteenth century and early Twentieth Century to have been crucial decades in the development of Western thought what best supports that contention |
Discoveries in physics introduced the concept of uncertainty and relativity which challenge mechanistic models of the universe |
