AP World History - Unit 9 Latest 2022
Graded A
Identify how new modes of communication and transportation increased global connectivity ✔✔-
20th century innovations in transportation and mass transit made possible the surging movement
of goods and people (cars buses, trucks, containerized, shipping and supertankers, airplanes and
air friet
-Greatest social and cultural impact in transportation in 20th century was the automobile
-by 1920's ford's model T production made the US the first country to market cars to the masses
Communication:- Radios, motion pictures, television, computers, cell phones, Internet
- Internet access and cell phone availability has soared globally- Transformed education,
commerce, and personal relationships and interactions
- Reshaped human life and spawned debates about consequences
- Gov't use to influence populations (propaganda)- Popular mass culture of the West undermining
cultural values elsewhere
- Cyberwarfare
Identify examples and explain the increasing role of regional and international organizations to
promote cooperation and development worldwide ✔✔UNITED NATIONS:
-The United Nations was an international organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace
and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations. It had two main bodies, the General Assembly
and Security Council.
NAFTA:
-An organization that prohibits tariffs and other trade barriers between Mexico, the United States,
and Canada
WORLD BANK:
, -A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic
development, trade promotion, and debt consolidation.
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND:
-agency founded in 1944 to help restore financial order in Europe and the rest of the world, to
revive international trade, and to support the financial concerns of Third World governments.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION:
-health institution that was created because it could combat outbreaks effectively to prevent
spreading
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION:
-an international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global
trade. Weapons of Mass Destruction. nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that can kill tens
of thousands of people all at once.
OVERALL:
-all promoted free trade stable currency values, and high levels of investment
-laid the foundation for postwar globalization
Provide examples of positives and criticisms resulting from economic and cultural globalization
✔✔POSITIVES:
-electricity allowed for the conversion of fossil fuels into useful energy....by 2014 85% of the
world population had access to electricity(transformed method of living
-gas combustion engine
-cars
-the communication revolution which was built upon the telegraph and telephone as well as radios
motion pictures , television, computers and internet access and cell phone availability had soared
globally which transformed education, commerce and personal relationships
-economic growth in East Asian economies producing for export (Asian Tigers)
Graded A
Identify how new modes of communication and transportation increased global connectivity ✔✔-
20th century innovations in transportation and mass transit made possible the surging movement
of goods and people (cars buses, trucks, containerized, shipping and supertankers, airplanes and
air friet
-Greatest social and cultural impact in transportation in 20th century was the automobile
-by 1920's ford's model T production made the US the first country to market cars to the masses
Communication:- Radios, motion pictures, television, computers, cell phones, Internet
- Internet access and cell phone availability has soared globally- Transformed education,
commerce, and personal relationships and interactions
- Reshaped human life and spawned debates about consequences
- Gov't use to influence populations (propaganda)- Popular mass culture of the West undermining
cultural values elsewhere
- Cyberwarfare
Identify examples and explain the increasing role of regional and international organizations to
promote cooperation and development worldwide ✔✔UNITED NATIONS:
-The United Nations was an international organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace
and cooperation. It replaced the League of Nations. It had two main bodies, the General Assembly
and Security Council.
NAFTA:
-An organization that prohibits tariffs and other trade barriers between Mexico, the United States,
and Canada
WORLD BANK:
, -A specialized agency of the United Nations that makes loans to countries for economic
development, trade promotion, and debt consolidation.
INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND:
-agency founded in 1944 to help restore financial order in Europe and the rest of the world, to
revive international trade, and to support the financial concerns of Third World governments.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION:
-health institution that was created because it could combat outbreaks effectively to prevent
spreading
WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION:
-an international organization based in Geneva that monitors and enforces rules governing global
trade. Weapons of Mass Destruction. nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that can kill tens
of thousands of people all at once.
OVERALL:
-all promoted free trade stable currency values, and high levels of investment
-laid the foundation for postwar globalization
Provide examples of positives and criticisms resulting from economic and cultural globalization
✔✔POSITIVES:
-electricity allowed for the conversion of fossil fuels into useful energy....by 2014 85% of the
world population had access to electricity(transformed method of living
-gas combustion engine
-cars
-the communication revolution which was built upon the telegraph and telephone as well as radios
motion pictures , television, computers and internet access and cell phone availability had soared
globally which transformed education, commerce and personal relationships
-economic growth in East Asian economies producing for export (Asian Tigers)
