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21-3 1990s Technology / GlobalizationVersión en línea
USH.8.2 Describe developing trends in science and technology, and explain how they impact the lives of Americans today, including NASA and space programs, identification of DNA, the Internet, global climate change, and U.S. energy policy.
USH.8.5 Analyze the impact of globalization on U.S. culture and U.S. economic, political, and foreign policy, including the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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____ is the process that causes the countries of the world to become more connected, and several world leaders were sure that this process would lead to more economic growth.
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Late 1960s, computers became even smaller and faster due to _____ , which was a silicon chip with several circuits containing both computing and memory functions.
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One negative about globalization is that global trade could cost American ____ ____ . However, two positives about globalization are that consumers can buy imported goods and that businesses make money selling products overseas.
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____ ____ was started by Stephen Wozniak and Steve Jobs, who used microprocessors to build a personal computer suitable for home use.
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U.S., Mexico, & Canada were joined economically by the north atlantic ____ ____ agreement, which was intended to increase business between the there countries.
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The Personal Computer (P.C.), was sold to the public by international ____ ____ (ibm), in competition with Apple Computer.
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The countries of Europe made a common currency, a common bank, and started free trade across borders, all with the hope of encouraging economic cooperation. They organized these steps in the ____ ____ .
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_____ was created by Paul Allen and Bill Gates, so they could compete against Wozniak and Jobs.
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Some people did not want to trade with China because of their bad history of ____ ____ . But China had a lot of potential buyers for American products, so Bill Clinton told Congress to allow trade with China.
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1960s, computers were made smaller and faster because Robert Noyce founded INTEL and created the first _____ , which was a silicon chip with a whole ____ on it.
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The U.S. ____ ____ hooked several supercomputers together in a network (located at the National Science Foundation), and this started what we now call the internet.
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The 1990s global economy began to impact the global environmental, and scientists found that chlorofluorocarbons were negatively impacting the ____ of ____ that protected people from the sun’s ultraviolet rays.
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The _____ is an electronic communication system that grew out of a series of supercomputers, which were linked in a global network,
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The global economy began to impact the global environment, and eventually scientists alerted everyone that ____
____ would cause extreme weather and droughts.
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The ____ of ____ carbon dioxide fumes made fixing global warming difficult, because the extra cost of processing the carbon dioxide would be passed to consumers, which means prices rise, people purchase less, and the economy is hurt.
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The internet was a great way to communicate globally, but it was not very useful without the ____ ____ web, which involves a web browser that processes links and hypertexts.
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Some scientists blamed global warming on ____ ____ that expelled carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but some scientists did not agree with this.
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Dot Com _____ were very popular right after the World Wide Web was created, and this led to the economic growth of the 1990s, but then many of these dot com ____ failed in the 2000s, for a variety of reasons.
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The ____ ____ was the agreement that many nations signed in an effort to cut back on carbon dioxide emissions and stop global warming. But the United States did not sign the agreement, because several senators opposed it.
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Microsoft created the _____ operating system, because IBM hired them to make an operating system for their new personal computer.
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