AP®︎ World History: Unit 9 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Unit 9 of AP World History – Globalization.
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Unit 9 (All Topics)
Question 1 Topic 9.1Easy
Vaccines and antibiotics contributed most directly to which global trend after 1900?
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Unit 9: Globalization
This unit looks at the processes of globalization from 1900 to the present, including advances in technology, communication, and international cooperation. It also explores cultural exchange, economic shifts, environmental concerns, and global resistance movements.
Topic 9.1: Advances in Technology and Exchange After 1900
Thematic Focus: Technology and InnovationTEC
Human adaptation and innovation have resulted in increased efficiency, comfort, and security, and technological advances have shaped human development and interactions with both intended and unintended consequences.
Learning Objective: Unit 9: Learning Objective A
Explain how the development of new technologies changed the world from 1900 to present.
Historical Developments: KC-6.1.I.A
New modes of communication—including radio communication, cellular communication, and the internet—as well as transportation, including air travel and shipping containers, reduced the problem of geographic distance.
Historical Developments: KC-6.1.I.D
Energy technologies, including the use of petroleum and nuclear power, raised productivity and increased the production of material goods.
Historical Developments: KC-6.1.III.B
More effective forms of birth control gave women greater control over fertility, transformed reproductive practices, and contributed to declining rates of fertility in much of the world.
Historical Developments: KC-6.1.I.B
The Green Revolution and commercial agriculture increased productivity and sustained the earth’s growing population as it spread chemically and genetically modified forms of agriculture.
Historical Developments: KC-6.1.I.C
Medical innovations, including vaccines and antibiotics, increased the ability of humans to survive and live longer lives.
Topic 9.2: Technological Advances and Limitations After 1900: Disease
Thematic Focus: Humans and the EnvironmentsENV
The environment shapes human societies, and as populations grow and change, these populations in turn shape their environments.
Learning Objective: Unit 9: Learning Objective B
Explain how environmental factors affected human populations over time.
Historical Developments: KC-6.1.III
Diseases, as well as medical and scientific developments, had significant effects on populations around the world.
Historical Developments: KC-6.1.III.A
Diseases associated with poverty persisted while other diseases emerged as new epidemics and threats to human populations, in some cases leading to social disruption. These outbreaks spurred technological and medical advances. Some diseases occurred at higher incidence merely because of increased longevity.
Illustrative Examples specific knowledge students should know & demonstrate
- Malaria
- Tuberculosis
- Cholera
- 1918 influenza pandemic
- Ebola
- HIV/AIDS
- Heart disease
- Alzheimer’s disease
Topic 9.3: Technological Advances: Debates About the Environment After 1900
Thematic Focus: Humans and the EnvironmentsENV
The environment shapes human societies, and as populations grow and change, these populations in turn shape their environments.
Learning Objective: Unit 9: Learning Objective C
Explain the causes and effects of environmental changes in the period from 1900 to present.
Historical Developments: KC-6.1.II.A
As human activity contributed to deforestation, desertification, a decline in air quality, and increased consumption of the world’s supply of fresh water, humans competed over these and other resources more intensely than ever before.
Historical Developments: KC-6.1.II.B
The release of greenhouse gases and pollutants into the atmosphere contributed to debates about the nature and causes of climate change.
Topic 9.4: Economics in the Global Age
Thematic Focus: Economic SystemsECN
As societies develop, they affect and are affected by the ways that they produce, exchange, and consume goods and services.
Learning Objective: Unit 9: Learning Objective D
Explain the continuities and changes in the global economy from 1900 to present.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.I.D
In a trend accelerated by the end of the Cold War, many governments encouraged free-market economic policies and promoted economic liberalization in the late 20th century.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.I.E
In the late 20th century, revolutions in information and communications technology led to the growth of knowledge economies in some regions, while industrial production and manufacturing were increasingly situated in Asia and Latin America.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.II.B
Changing economic institutions, multinational corporations, and regional trade agreements reflected the spread of principles and practices associated with free-market economics throughout the world.
Illustrative Examples specific knowledge students should know & demonstrate
- The United States under Ronald Reagan
- Britain under Margaret Thatcher
- China under Deng Xiaoping
- Chile under Augusto Pinochet
- Finland
- Japan
- U.S.
- Vietnam
- Bangladesh
- Mexico
- Honduras
- World Trade Organization (WTO)
- North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
- Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
- Nestlé
- Nissan
- Mahindra and Mahindra
Topic 9.5: Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900
Thematic Focus: Social Interactions and OrganizationSIO
The process by which societies group their members and the norms that govern the interactions between these groups and between individuals influence political, economic, and cultural institutions and organization.
Learning Objective: Unit 9: Learning Objective E
Explain how social categories, roles, and practices have been maintained and challenged over time.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.III.i
Rights-based discourses challenged old assumptions about race, class, gender, and religion.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.III.ii
In much of the world, access to education as well as participation in new political and professional roles became more inclusive in terms of race, class, gender, and religion.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.II.C
Movements throughout the world protested the inequality of the environmental and economic consequences of global integration.
Illustrative Examples specific knowledge students should know & demonstrate
- The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especially as it sought to protect the rights of children, women, and refugees
- Global feminism movements
- Negritude movement
- Liberation theology in Latin America
- The right to vote and/or to hold public office granted to women in the United States (1920), Brazil (1932), Turkey (1934), Japan (1945), India (1947), and Morocco (1963)
- The rising rate of female literacy and the increasing numbers of women in higher education, in most parts of the world
- The U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1965
- The end of apartheid
- Caste reservation in India
- Greenpeace
- Professor Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement in Kenya
- World Fair Trade Organization
Topic 9.6: Globalized Culture
Thematic Focus: Cultural Developments and InteractionsCDI
The development of ideas, beliefs, and religions illustrates how groups in society view themselves, and the interactions of societies and their beliefs often have political, social, and cultural implications.
Learning Objective: Unit 9: Learning Objective F
Explain how and why globalization changed culture over time.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.IV.i
Political and social changes of the 20th century led to changes in the arts and in the second half of the century, popular and consumer culture became more global.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.IV.ii
Arts, entertainment, and popular culture increasingly reflected the influence of a globalized society.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.IV.iii
Consumer culture became globalized and transcended national borders.
Illustrative Examples specific knowledge students should know & demonstrate
- Reggae
- Bollywood
- BBC
- World Cup soccer
- the Olympics
- Alibaba
- eBay
- Toyota
- Coca-Cola
Topic 9.7: Resistance to Globalization
Thematic Focus: Cultural Developments and InteractionsCDI
The development of ideas, beliefs, and religions illustrates how groups in society view themselves, and the interactions of societies and their beliefs often have political, social, and cultural implications.
Learning Objective: Unit 9: Learning Objective G
Explain the various responses to increasing globalization from 1900 to present.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.IV.iv
Responses to rising cultural and economic globalization took a variety of forms.
Illustrative Examples specific knowledge students should know & demonstrate
- Anti-IMF and anti-World Bank activism
- Advent of locally developed social media (Weibo in China)
Topic 9.8: Institutions
Thematic Focus: GovernanceGOV
A variety of internal and external factors contribute to state formation, expansion, and decline. Governments maintain order through a variety of administrative institutions, policies, and procedures, and governments obtain, retain, and exercise power in different ways and for different purposes.
Learning Objective: Unit 9: Learning Objective H
Explain how and why globalization changed international interactions among states.
Historical Developments: KC-6.3.II.A
New international organizations, including the United Nations, formed with the stated goal of maintaining world peace and facilitating international cooperation.
Topic 9.9: Continuity and Change in a Globalized World
Learning Objective: Unit 9: Learning Objective I
Explain the extent to which science and technology brought change in the period from 1900 to the present.
Review: KC-6.1
Rapid advances in science and technology altered the understanding of the universe and the natural world and led to advances in communication, transportation, industry, agriculture, and medicine.
Review: KC-6.1.I.A
New modes of communication—including radio communication, cellular communication, and the internet—as well as transportation, including air travel and shipping containers, reduced the problem of geographic distance.
Review: KC-6.1.I.D
Energy technologies, including the use of petroleum and nuclear power, raised productivity and increased the production of material goods.
Review: KC-6.1.III.B
More effective forms of birth control gave women greater control over fertility, transformed reproductive practices, and contributed to declining rates of fertility in much of the world.
Review: KC-6.1.I.B
The Green Revolution and commercial agriculture increased productivity and sustained the earth’s growing population as it spread chemically and genetically modified forms of agriculture.
Review: KC-6.1.I.C
Medical innovations, including vaccines and antibiotics, increased the ability of humans to survive and live longer lives.
Review: KC-6.3.I
States responded in a variety of ways to the economic challenges of the 20th century.
Review: KC-6.3.III.i
Rights-based discourses challenged old assumptions about race, class, gender, and religion.
Review: KC-6.3.III.ii
In much of the world, access to education as well as participation in new political and professional roles became more inclusive in terms of race, class, gender, and religion.
Review: KC-6.3.IV.i
Political and social changes of the 20th century led to changes in the arts and in the second half of the century, popular and consumer culture became more global.
Review: KC-6.3.IV.ii
Arts, entertainment, and popular culture increasingly reflected the influence of a globalized society.
Review: KC-6.3.IV.iii
Consumer culture became globalized and transcended national borders.
