Unit 9: Globalization (c. 1900–Present)

AP World History: Modern

Timeline of key developments

Key concepts

What is globalization?

Globalization: benefits and costs

Unit connections

A container ship representing global trade — Caption: A container ship at sea. The containerization of shipping, developed in the 1950s-1960s, dramatically reduced the cost of international trade and was one of the key technologies enabling economic globalization.

Primary sources

Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat (2005)

Vandana Shiva, Monocultures of the Mind (1993)

Kofi Annan, UN Millennium Summit Address (2000)

Key figures

Key events summary

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Vocabulary

Unit 9 topics

Unit 9 overview 9.1Advances in Technology and Exchange After 1900 9.2Advances in Technology and Exchange — Disease 9.3Technological Advances and Limitations After 1900: Environment 9.4Economics in the Global Age 9.5Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900

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