(GBN) Globalization 1900-Present Module Overview

Globalization 1900-Present Module Overview

Introduction

Connected Globe ImageAs we enter into the 1900s and later, a new movement is starting that will affect the world. Globalization is the process of a business or organization developing international influence or starting to operate on an international scale. Globalization brought new modes of communication transportation, energy technologies, new medicines, innovations and treatments as well as the Green Revolution and commercial agriculture to the world. However, with the good there is also the bad as diseases spread affecting the global populations and deforestation and greenhouse gases and pollutants contribute to climate change. These changes caused by globalization will affect the global economy as well as the influence of the free market economy spread. Social categories, roles and practices will be challenged and globalization will also impact and change cultures around the world as well. While many will embrace globalization there will still be those that resist seeing it as damaging to their local ways and customs. New international organizations will also form with the common goal of maintaining world peace and facilitating international cooperation. Globalization will lead to rapid advances in science and technology and the understanding of the universe and natural world will help lead to advances in communication, transportation, industry, agriculture, and medicine.

 

Essential Questions

  • How did the development of new technologies change the world from 1900 to present?
  • Explain how environmental factors affected human populations over time.
  • What were the causes and effects of environmental changes in the period from 1900 to present?
  • Explain the changes and continuities in the global economy from 1900 to present.
  • How have social categories, roles and practices been maintained and challenged over time?
  • How and why has globalization changed culture over time?
  • Explain the various responses to increasing globalization from 1900 to present.
  • How and why did globalization change international interactions among states?
  • To what extent did science and technology bring change in the period from 1900 to present?

 

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