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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Chapter 33 Guided Reading

A.P. World History
Guided Reading Chapter 33
“Globalization at the Turn of the Millennium”


Terms:

1. al Qaeda
2. Ethnic cleansing
3. weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)
4. Usama bin Laden
5. Economic sanctions (also state the goal)
6. World Trade Organization (WTO) and its goal
7. G-8 (Group of Eight)
8. IMF (International Monetary Fund)
9. Nuclear nonproliferation
10. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
11. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
12. Cultural imperialism
13. Popular (pop) culture
14. Global culture



Questions to Outline:
1. What was the ethnic makeup of the Yugoslavian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1991?
2. Explain the reasons for the violence and war in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
3. What role did the USA have in the conflict?
4. List five global economic problems of the 1990s.
5. What types of female oppression did Western feminists rail against?
6. List five types of media that help to spread cultural imperialism.
7. What is the “brain drain” and how does it affect Europe and the USA?

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