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The Technology Revolution and Globalization
Review: With what do you associate the following?
1. Henry Louis Gates
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7. William Durant
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2. Martha Graham
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8. Bill Gates
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3. Ansel Adams
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9. J. Robert Oppenheimer
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4. Ray Kroc
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10. Shockley, Barden, Brattain __________
5. Charles Drew
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11. Maya Angelou
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6. Sam Walton
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12. Frank Lloyd Wright
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Technology Revolution
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After World War II, Americans turned their energies to the development of peacetime
technologies.
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The _______________ industry and the advancement of the _______________, along with the
_______________ industry and _______________ highway system, led to increased domestic
and international _______________ for business and pleasure.
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The _______________ and _______________ industries led to:
1. CDs, VCRs, and _______________ in most households
2. _______________ access to television and radio programming
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The _______________ industry led to:
1. Changing ways that people get _______________ (Internet)
2. Greater access to _______________ and other information
3. Cheaper and more convenient means of _______________
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_______________ systems led to:
1. Pagers, _______________, televisions, global positioning instruments
2. Nationwide access to _______________ and _______________
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The _______________ industry led to NASA, moon landings and space stations.
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Greater access to _______________ and _______________ led to comfortable living and
working conditions in all parts of the country; also encouraged _________________ growth in
certain areas, such as people in the Northeast moving to the Southwest (the "Sun Belt")
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Nationwide access to the same _______________ and information provided by television, radio,
and Internet services led to decreased regional _______________.
Globalization
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_______________ describes the increasing interconnection of the U.S. with other countries
around the world.
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Globalization is the linking of _______________ through trade, information, technologies, and
communication.
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It involves the _______________ of different societies.
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Impact of globalization on American life:
1. Improvement of communications and _______________
2. Availability of a wide variety of _______________ goods and services
3. _______________ of industrial and service jobs to other countries
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Foreign Policy
1. Increase in _______________ activities
2. Conflicts in the _______________
3. Changing _______________ with other nations (more openness with former
Communist countries and growing economic strength of Asian countries such as
India and China)
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Immigration
1. Changing immigration _______________ (Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans)
2. More people wanting to immigrate to the U.S. than are _______________ by
law
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Global Environment
1. Policies to _______________ the environment
2. Global _______________ change - Global Warming
3. _______________ of water and other natural resources
4. _______________ Revolution - Go Green
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Other issues
1. _______________ issues (dependence on foreign oil)
2. World _______________ issues (global pandemics…bird flu, swine flu)