Project South Presents: Today’s Globalization Timeline

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BUSTS GLOBALIZATION SPEEDS UP
1914-1918 — World 1927 — Creation of 1934 — Export- 1939-1945 — World 1950-1953 — 1970 — Computer 1980 — Max. RAM 1990 — Max. RAM 2001 — US stock
1899-1902 — Boer 1960 — OPEC formed
War I Saudi Arabia Import Bank War II Korean War chip used in produc- available = 64k avail. = 4mb market plumets after
War 1960-Present —
1918 — Council on — White study 1942 — Bracero 1953 — Iranian Shah tion 1981-82 — SAPs ini- 1991 — Gulf War 911
1902 — Japan joins African neocoloniza-
Foreign Relations 1936 — Keynesian- Program restored tion 1971 — Sales of 500 tiatied — 500 largest corps 2002 — Euro begins
the Gold Standard
— US race riots ism developed 1944 — Bretton 1958 & 1959 — largest corps = $721 1983 — US invasion sales = $5.2 trillion circulation
1905 — Russo- 1965 — Vietnam War
Woods Computer chip invent- billion of Grenada 1994 — NAFTA 2003 — Iran declares
Japanese War
1948 — Cold War ed 1973 — US abandons — Caribbean Basin 1997 — Global North shift: dollar to euro.
Economic 1949 — NATO formed gold standard Initiative gets $77 billion loan 2003 —35.9 million
profits Americans in poverty
History WAR ON POVERTY SOCIAL CONTRACT GLOBAL WAR
NEW DEAL SOCIAL CONTRACT SOCIAL CONTRACT EXPANDS NEOLIBERALISM
WEAKENS SOCIAL CONTRACT BROKEN

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1905 — Jim Crow 1917 — US 1924 — National 1935 — Wagner Act 1941 — Atlantic 1952 — McCarran- 1963 — OAU formed 1973 — Trilateral 1986-1994 — 1992 — New wedge 2001 — PATRIOT Act
established throughout Immigration Act Origins Act (US) 1938 — Fair Labor Charter Walter Act 1966 — ICCPR & ICE- Commission formed “Uruguay Round” of issues appear in OR & eliminates basic civil
the US South — US race riots 1927 — Creation of Standards Act (min. 1945 — Dumbarton — Egyptian coup SCR 1974 — Principles of talks CO libertiers in USA
1919 — Int’l Labor Saudi Arabia wage 25 cents/hour, 40 Oaks proposal 1954 — Brown v NIEO 1986 — IMF forms 1994 — FTAA negoti- 2002 — US intro-
Organization hour workweek) — UN formed Board of Education Structural Adjustment ations begin duces CAFTA to step
— League of Nations 1946 — Taft-Hartley 1955 — Bandung Facility 1995 — WTO towards an FTAA
1947 — GATT WOMEN’S MOVEMENT
Conference 1989 — World Bank 1996 — TANF 2002 — US deploys
Government — Marshall Plan
— Truman Doctrine
1958 — European
Common Market ANTI-WAR
forms Structural
Adjustment Facility
2000 — Response to troops to guard
Seattle: SAP’s replaced Occidental Oil Pipeline
Policy 1948 — Israel MOVEMENT by CDR at IMF 2003 — Bush tax-cut
CIVIL RIGHTS
TRADE UNION MOVEMENT
History STRONG UNION ACTIVITY MOVEMENTS LGBT MOVEMENT
GLOBAL MOVEMENTS

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1905 — IWW founded 1910 — International 1917-1921 — 1934 — Southern 1945 — All-Colonial 1954 — Puerto Rican 1963 — March on 1970 — 1st Earth Day 1984 — Cherokee 1991 — Environ 2001 — Zapatista’s
1909 — NAACP Women’s Day Russian Revolution Textile Strike People’s Conference ind. movement Washington — Struggle Vieques Nation unites Justice movement March to Mexico City
founded 1917 — WEB Du Bois 1920 — Debs runs for 1935 — CIO formed — Fifth Pan-African 1955 — AFL-CIO 1965 — United Farm begins 1987 — ACT-UP forms 1995 — El Barzón 2001 — 911: Global
issues “Close Ranks” US presidency — US race riots Congress merger Workers lead national — Palestinian forms response of symathay
1971 — Attica Prison
— National Women’s 1936-1939 — 1946 — Operation — Montgomery Bus grape boycott uprising Intifadah 1997 — Haitian gen- unprecedented for US
Party Spanish Civil War Dixie Boycott 1966 — Black Panther 1989 — Up & Out of eral strike 2003 — Global
— MS. Magazine pub-
1919 — Seattle 1937 — Abraham 1949 — Chinese 1956-1990 — Party formed lished Poverty Now! Summit 1998 — MAI defeat- response of protest to
General Strike Lincoln Brigades Revolution African independence 1967 — National ed US War in Iraq
1974 — 424 big
Popular — Sleeping Car Porters 1959 — Cuban Welfare Rights Org. strikes (1000+ workers) 1999 — Bolivian 2003-5 — GGJ brings
organized Revolution formed fight for water over 100 grassroots
Movement 1959-1978 — Latin 1968 — American
1979 — 1st LGBT
March on Washington — WTO shut down leaders to WSF.
History American revolutions Indian Movement
formed
2004 — African Social
Forum in Lusaka, Zambia
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