Master Class 5:

Globalization and its

impacts
Social Studies
11°
 What is
globalization?
• Globalization is the word used to
describe the growing interdependence of
the world’s economies, cultures, and
populations, brought about by cross-
border trade in goods and services,
technology, and flows of investment,
people, and information.
 What is
globalization?
• After World War II, the United States helped
build a global economic order governed by
mutually accepted rules and overseen by
multilateral institutions. The idea was to
create a better world with countries seeking
to cooperate with one another to promote
prosperity and peace. Free trade and the rule
of law were mainstays of the system, helping
to prevent most economic disputes from
escalating into larger conflicts. The
institutions established include:
Causes of
globalization
• Principal cause of
globalization was wars. A
reflection about peace
motivated the construction of
the global mindfulness.
Nevertheless, this process was
slow because Cold War had
divided the world in two
ideologies. Thus, we
introduce the conflicts that
motivated globalization.
War in
Indochina
• Takeover of the French
colonies by the troops
of Japan
• Intention to expel the
European presence in
Asian territory
 Vietnam
War
• Absolute vacancy of France in
Vietnamese territory.
• Confrontation between two
types of governments.
• Political sabotage by each of the
countries.
• US and USSR intervention
• Loss of US military support
• North Vietnamese victory
 Russian-Afghan
War
• Saur Revolution “Treaty of
Friendship, Good Neighbor and
Cooperation between the Union
of Soviet Socialist Republics
and the Democratic Republic of
Afghanistan”
• Amin hit
• Treason
• Confrontation and military
intervention of powers
Decolonization processes
in Africa
• Nationalization of the Suez
Canal
• Suez Crisis
• Sinai war
• Military victory, political
failure
• France and the United
Kingdom cease to be powers
• Détente between Israel and
Egypt.
Decolonization
processes in Africa
• Abolition of Apartheid
• Significance role in
WW
• Independence claim
• Supporting from UN
Operation in
LATAM
• Cuban Revolution
• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Return of Peronism
• Allende to Pinochet
• Operation Condor
Goodbye
USSR
• Traditional communist vs
reformist
• failure of perestroika
• Economic and political
weakening
• Fall of the Berlin Wall
• Disarmament between
Bush and Gorbachev
Thank you!