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Today’s Globalization Timeline
Import Bank
— White study
1936 — Keynesianism developed
War II
Foreign Relations
— US race riots
Economic
History
Korean War
1953 — Iranian Shah
restored
1958 & 1959 —
Computer chip invented
1942 — Bracero
Program
1944 — Bretton
Woods
1948 — Cold War
1949 — NATO formed
African neocolonization
1965 — Vietnam War
WAR ON POVERTY
Popular
Movement
History
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Today’s Globalization
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— US race riots
1936-1939 —
Spanish Civil War
1937 — Abraham
Lincoln Brigades
1952 — McCarran-
1963 — OAU formed
1966 — ICCPR & ICE-
Walter Act
— Egyptian coup
1954 — Brown v
Board of Education
1955 — Bandung
Conference
1958 — European
Common Market
SCR
SOCIAL CONTRACT
WEAKENS
1986-1994 —
“Uruguay Round” of
talks
1986 — IMF forms
Structural Adjustment
Facility
1989 — World Bank
forms Structural
Adjustment Facility
1992 — New wedge
issues appear in OR &
CO
1994 — FTAA negotiations begin
1995 — WTO
1996 — TANF
2000 — Response to
Seattle: SAP’s replaced
by CDR at IMF
1954 — Puerto Rican 1963 — March on
People’s Conference
— Fifth Pan-African
Congress
1946 — Operation
Dixie
1949 — Chinese
Revolution
ind. movement
1955 — AFL-CIO
merger
— Montgomery Bus
Boycott
1956-1990 —
African independence
1959 — Cuban
Revolution
1959-1978 — Latin
American revolutions
Washington
1965 — United Farm
Workers lead national
grape boycott
1966 — Black Panther
Party formed
1967 — National
Welfare Rights Org.
formed
1968 — American
Indian Movement
formed
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LGBT MOVEMENT
1945 — All-Colonial
1970 — 1st Earth Day
— Struggle Vieques
begins
1971 — Attica Prison
uprising
— MS. Magazine published
1974 — 424 big
strikes (1000+ workers)
1979 — 1st LGBT
March on Washington
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2001 — US stock
market plumets after
911
2002 — Euro begins
circulation
2003 — Iran declares
shift: dollar to euro.
2003 —35.9 million
Americans in poverty
GLOBAL WAR
SOCIAL CONTRACT BROKEN
Commission formed
1974 — Principles of
NIEO
ANTI-WAR
MOVEMENT
CIVIL RIGHTS
MOVEMENTS
NEOLIBERALISM
1973 — Trilateral
WOMEN’S MOVEMENT
199
7
1990 — Max. RAM
avail.
= 4mb
available = 64k
1991
— Gulf War
1981-82 — SAPs ini—
500
largest corps
tiatied
sales
=
$5.2
trillion
1983 — US invasion
1994
—
NAFTA
of Grenada
1997 — Global North
— Caribbean Basin
gets
$77 billion loan
Initiative
profits
1980 — Max. RAM
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SOCIAL CONTRACT EXPANDS
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STRONG UNION ACTIVITY
1934 — Southern
1905 — IWW founded 1910 — International 1917-1921 —
Russian Revolution
Textile Strike
1909 — NAACP
Women’s Day
founded
1917 — WEB Du Bois 1920 — Debs runs for 1935 — CIO formed
US presidency
issues “Close Ranks”
— National Women’s
Party
1919 — Seattle
General Strike
— Sleeping Car Porters
organized
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41
1941 — Atlantic
Charter
Standards Act (min.
1945 — Dumbarton
wage 25 cents/hour, 40 Oaks proposal
hour workweek)
— UN formed
1946 — Taft-Hartley
1947 — GATT
— Marshall Plan
— Truman Doctrine
1948 — Israel
TRADE UNION MOVEMENT
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1935 — Wagner Act
1938 — Fair Labor
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56
Origins Act (US)
1927 — Creation of
Saudi Arabia
Government
Policy
History
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27
1924 — National
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49
established throughout
the US South
1917 — US
Immigration Act
— US race riots
1919 — Int’l Labor
Organization
— League of Nations
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1905 — Jim Crow
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NEW DEAL SOCIAL CONTRACT
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1970 — Computer
chip used in production
1971 — Sales of 500
largest corps = $721
billion
1973 — US abandons
gold standard
1960 — OPEC formed
1960-Present —
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Saudi Arabia
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01
20
02
War I
2001 — PATRIOT Act
eliminates basic civil
libertiers in USA
2002 — US introduces CAFTA to step
towards an FTAA
2002 — US deploys
troops to guard
Occidental Oil Pipeline
2003 — Bush tax-cut
GLOBAL MOVEMENTS
1991 — Environ
Justice
movement
Nation unites
1995
—
El Barzón
1987 — ACT-UP forms
forms
— Palestinian
1997 — Haitian genIntifadah
eral
strike
1989 — Up & Out of
1998
— MAI defeatPoverty Now! Summit
ed
1999 — Bolivian
fight for water
— WTO shut down
1984 — Cherokee
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03
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1939-1945 — World 1950-1953 —
BEGIN WANE OF US ECONOMIC DOMINANCE —
GLOBALIZATION SPEEDS UP
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1934 — Export-
GLOBAL ECONOMY
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1927 — Creation of
2000’s
GENERAL ECONOMIC DECLINE
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ECONOMIC BOOMS &
BUSTS
1990’s
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the Gold Standard
1905 — RussoJapanese War
GENERAL ECONOMIC EXPANSION
1914-1918 — World
1918 — Council on
1980’s
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1902 — Japan joins
1970’s
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84
War
1960’s
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1899-1902 — Boer
GREAT DEPRESSION
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05
19
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GLOBAL TRADE
EXPANDS
1950’s
1940’s
1930’s
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1920’s
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1910’s
1900’s
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Project South Presents:
2001 — Zapatista’s
March to Mexico City
2001 — 911: Global
response of symathay
unprecedented for US
2003 — Global
response of protest to
US War in Iraq
2003-5 — GGJ brings
over 100 grassroots
leaders to WSF.
2004 — African
Social Forum in Lusaka,
Zambia
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