Seal of Good Local Governance (SGLG) 2024Final.pptx
Globalization & Post Cold War
1. World Health Organization (WHO)
• A non-profit organization who works to lower mortality and combat
various diseases.
2. Green Revolution
• Led to an increase in agricultural productivity through industrial
means-chemical fertilizers, pesticides, biologically engineered foods,
more efficient means of harvesting, and more marginal lands
available for agriculture.
3. Group of 20 Finance Ministers and Central
Bank Governors (G20)
• A group of 19 nations plus EU representatives that represents key
industrialized and developing economies.
4. Group of Six (G6)
• A forum for the world's major industrialized democracies (the United
States, Britain, West Germany, Italy, Japan, and Poland).
5. G8
• A forum for the world's major industrialized democracies (the United
States, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, Canada, and Russia).
6. G7
• A forum for the world's major industrialized democracies (the United
States, Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Poland, and Canada,).
7. General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
(GATT)
• Currently named the World Trade Organization (WTO). Primary goal is
to reduce barriers to international trade.
10. Eurozone
• The formation of a monetary union led all but three nations (UK,
Sweden, Denmark) to adopt the euro as a unified currency.
11. European Union (EU)
• Union formed to give the United States some economic competition
by banding Europe together in a single market.
12. North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA)
• An agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States,
creating a trilateral rules-based trade bloc in North America.
13. International Criminal Court
• Court formed to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity,
no matter who committed them.
15. National Action Party (PAN)
• Political Party that offered Mexico the first multi-party election.
16. Lech Walesa
• Leader of the Solidarity movement in Poland. Later arrested by the
government, released, and elected President of Poland.
17. Mikhail Gorbachev
• Leader of the Soviet Union that pushed for glasnost (openness) and
urged a perestroika (restructuring) of the Soviet economy. Officially
denounced the Great Purge.
19. African Union
• A political and economic federation that replaced the Organization of
African Unity (OAU).
20. Arab Spring of 2011
• Oppressive regimes in several nations were toppled due in part to the
exposure-via social media-of the problems in those countries.
