Learning Targets: 31, 32, & 33

What has rapidly increased the use of technologies such as the personal computer, Internet, and mobile phone?

• Global communication

• Educational institutions

• Local businesses

• Government policies

What is a consequence of the U.S. trade deficit?

• Outsourcing of jobs

• Decrease in information technology jobs

• Decrease in service industry jobs

• Increase in manufacturing jobs

What has challenged American producers and local communities since the early 1990s?

• Decrease in global communication

• International trade and overseas competition

• Growth in local businesses

• Reduction in technology use

What was one of the domestic challenges for the United States after the attacks on September 11, 2001?

• Decrease in military spending

• Reduction in international trade

• Balancing national security with civil liberties

• Growth in manufacturing jobs

What led to the loss of millions of U.S. jobs in defense plants?

• Increase in global communication

• Reductions in defense spending due to the end of the Cold War

• Growth of international trade

• Expansion of the service industry

What is a result of the globalized economy on the American job market?

• Decrease in the U.S. trade deficit

• Growth in high-paying jobs

• Increase in manufacturing jobs

• Outsourcing of U.S. jobs

What has been a social and political challenge of a globalized world?

• Decrease in pandemic diseases

• Reduction in immigration

• Decrease in international humanitarian aid

• Increase in the immigration of refugees from war-torn regions

How did the attacks on September 11, 2001, impact the U.S. military?

• Decreased defense spending

• Increased defense spending as a result of the war on terrorism

• Complete withdrawal from Middle Eastern politics

• Reduction in military presence overseas

What was a consequence of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001?

• A decrease in defense spending

• An increase in manufacturing jobs

• Combat troops remained for thirteen years

• Immediate withdrawal of combat troops

What has led to a shift from a manufacturing industry toward a service industry in the U.S.?

• Increase in local business operations

• Decrease in global communication

• Growth of information technology jobs

• Reduction in international trade