Globalization and the Modern World
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What students do
- Explain how NAFTA and the WTO created new rules for global trade after the Cold War
- Trace how the Maastricht Treaty and the euro tied Western Europe's economies together
- Read President Clinton's actual December 8, 1993 remarks on signing the NAFTA Implementation Act
- Evaluate globalization's costs and benefits for workers, consumers, and the environment
What it covers
- How containerization and the World Wide Web changed how goods and information move
- The 1999 Seattle WTO protests and the pushback against free trade
- The difference between NAFTA being signed and NAFTA taking effect
Learning targets
- Explain how NAFTA and the WTO created new rules for global trade after the Cold War.
- Trace how the European Union and the euro tied Western Europe's economies together.
- Describe how containerization and the World Wide Web changed how goods and information move.
- Analyze President Clinton's December 8, 1993 remarks on signing the NAFTA Implementation Act as a primary source.
- Evaluate the costs and benefits of globalization for workers, consumers, and the environment.
From one teacher to another
I close the course with this one on purpose, because every world history class eventually asks how any of it connects to now. NAFTA and the WTO tie straight back to the empires and wars we've spent the year studying, so globalization doesn't get treated like a topic with no history behind it. Students read Clinton's actual signing remarks and then have to weigh his case against the protesters who showed up in Seattle six years later.
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