AP®︎ European History: Topic 9.13 Flashcards

Increasing cross-border movement of information, ideas, culture, goods, services, and people, creating worldwide interdependence

Communication technology that enabled direct long-distance conversation and faster coordination as national and international networks expanded

Cross-border mass medium used for news, propaganda, political messages, advertising, and music, including American jazz and rock

Postwar mass medium that brought international news, advertising, entertainment, and especially American visual culture into European homes

Technologies that accelerated the storage, processing, reproduction, and international transmission of information in government, business, research, and daily life

Mobile technologies that detached communication from fixed locations and eventually provided continuous access to global information networks

Worldwide network enabling rapid circulation of information and ideas while also fostering misinformation, surveillance, reduced privacy, and extremism

Fast long-distance air transportation that expanded international tourism, business, migration, diplomacy, and educational exchange

Use of standardized containers transferable among ships, trains, and trucks, lowering shipping costs and integrating international supply chains

Adoption or influence of American products, technologies, styles, values, and practices in postwar Europe

Extension of a powerful society’s influence by dominating media, consumer markets, and cultural preferences without formal territorial rule

Economic and cultural orientation treating the acquisition of goods and services as an expression of prosperity, status, comfort, and identity

Late-20th-century environmental parties that challenged consumerism, advocated sustainable development, and warned against the environmental and social costs of globalization

Development that meets present economic and social needs without destroying future generations’ ability to meet theirs