Globalization

How did the end of the Cold War aid in the intensification of globalization?

Areas were newly opened to capitalism.

In what region were the many nations that sought admission to NATO during Bill Clinton's presidency?

Eastern Europe

The multipolar world that has emerged since the early 1990s is characterized by what?

Multiple major centers of power plus rising regional powers

A major anti-World Trade Organization (WTO) demonstration took place in 1999 in what city?

Seattle

What nations signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?

The United States, Mexico, and Canada

Why did 50,000 protesters gather at the annual meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999?

They were protesting unequal distribution of the costs and benefits of globalization.

At its inception, the Internet was primarily used for what purpose?

To transmit electronic mail between scientists

What popularized the Internet with its debut in 1991?

World Wide Web

In 1998, Silicon Valley software entrepreneur Ron Unz sponsored a California initiative calling for an end to

bilingual education.

The melting-pot concept was popular in the United States through most of the 1900s because it mollified nativists by

implying that immigrants would assimilate into the dominant culture.