Globalization

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    Globalization

  • Definition

    Globalization: theprocess by which businesses or other organizations develop international influence or start opening on an international scale.
  • Soviet Union

    Because the Soviet Union collapsing and the end of the Cold War, the world became more internationally connected.
  • Communist Countries

    The communist bloc countries began to intergrade into the global market economy
  • Internet

    World Wide web was invented; connecting billions of people
  • Trade and Investment

    As globalization started to move forward, trade and investment began to increase.
  • Fall of Berlin Wall

    The fall of the Berlin wall was a large step in the globalization process, it connected East and West Germany and unified them as one.
  • Emerging

    Globalization starting emerging more in the 1990's
  • Cold War

    Because the Soviet Union collapsing and the end of the Cold War, the world became more internationally connected.
  • Barriers

    Barriers to migration and culture exchange lowered
  • First Website

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  • NAFTA

    North American Free Trade Agreement. Governments of USA, Canada, and Mexico removed barriers to free the flow of people. Goods, services along with trade and migration ihncreased.
  • First text message

  • Great Recession