AP World Unit 9: Globalization

On the night of 31 December 1929, the Indian National Congress session in Lahore — presided over by Jawaharlal Nehru — passed the Purna Swaraj resolution demanding full independence from Britain…

The event took place in San Francisco, on the Pacific coast of the United States — exactly where a famous bay cuts into California's coastline, just south of where North America's western shore bends…

At the stroke of midnight on 14–15 August 1947, British rule over the South Asian subcontinent ended and two independent nations came into being: Pakistan (with its capital at Karachi on the Arabian…

This is Algiers, the capital of Algeria — a country stretching from the Mediterranean's southern shore deep into the Sahara, directly across the sea from France and Spain. In 1954, the National…

This is Accra, the capital of Ghana, sitting on the Gulf of Guinea where West Africa's coast turns from east-facing to south-facing — the geographic 'corner' the title clue described. On March 6…

This event unfolded in Léopoldville — today called Kinshasa — the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, positioned deep in the Congo River basin at the heart of central Africa, exactly as…

This event is rooted in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, situated on the Potomac River along the Atlantic coastal plain, east of the Appalachian Mountains and roughly midway up…

This event unfolded in Berlin, the historic capital sitting on the North European Plain in what was then divided Germany — a country flanked by the Rhine to the west and the Oder River marking its…

Boston, Massachusetts, on the northeastern Atlantic coast of the United States, is where Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was published in 1962 — exactly the densely populated eastern seaboard the title…

Ciudad Obregón, in Mexico's Sonora state, was the proving ground where Norman Borlaug and the Rockefeller Foundation's CIMMYT programme harvested the first commercially scaled crops of semi-dwarf…

This is Maputo, the capital of Mozambique — a country hugging southeastern Africa's Indian Ocean coast, wedged between Tanzania to the north and South Africa to the south. Beginning in 1964, a…

Bhopal sits inland on the Deccan Plateau in the state of Madhya Pradesh, well north of Sri Lanka in the heart of the Indian subcontinent — precisely the plateau city the disaster's location…

The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant sits near Pripyat, in northern Ukraine — on the broad lowland plains east of Europe, north of the Black Sea, and just south of the border with Belarus. On April 26…

This is Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China — the immense paved plaza at the symbolic centre of the North China Plain, where the ancient imperial capital sits between the Taihang Mountains to the west…

This is Berlin, the capital of Germany, sitting in the broad North European Plain between the Rhine basin to the west and the Oder River — the natural boundary with Poland — to the east. On November…

This scene unfolded at Pushkin Square in Moscow, Russia — a city sitting on the vast East European Plain, roughly halfway between the Ural Mountains to the east and the Baltic Sea to the west. On…

This event took place at CERN, the particle physics laboratory straddling the border between France and Switzerland near Geneva, nestled between the Jura Mountains to the northwest and the Alps to…

Maastricht, a city in the southern Netherlands — where the Rhine delta country stretches between France and Germany, close to the North Sea coast — was where the treaty came into force on November 1…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the Potomac River along the eastern seaboard of North America — the continent that stretches from the Arctic tundra of Canada in the north…

Geneva, Switzerland — a landlocked city tucked between the Alps to the south and the Jura Mountains to the northwest, close to the borders of France and Germany — is where the World Trade…

Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, sits near the head of the Gulf of Thailand on the long Indochinese Peninsula. In July 1997, Thailand's currency, the baht, collapsed after the government could no…

Seattle, Washington, in the United States, is the city on Puget Sound — the deep inland sea carved into the Pacific Northwest coast, with the Cascade Range rising sharply to the east. In late 1999…

The ceremony took place in Doha, the capital of Qatar — a small peninsula projecting northward into the Persian Gulf from the Arabian coast, flanked by Saudi Arabia to the south and Bahrain across…

This is New York City, on the northeastern coast of the United States, where the Hudson River empties into the Atlantic at one of the world's great natural harbours — exactly the dense island skyline…

The event took place in San Francisco, California, USA — a city built on a hilly peninsula where the Pacific Ocean meets San Francisco Bay, on the far western edge of North America. In January 2007…

This event unfolded in New York City, USA — specifically in the dense skyscraper canyons of Manhattan, the narrow island sitting where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic on North America's…

This event took place in Pristina, the capital of Kosovo — a small, landlocked territory in the western Balkans, surrounded by Serbia to the north and east, Albania and North Macedonia to the south…

Paris, the capital of France, sits along the Seine River in the heart of northwestern Europe — exactly where the broad North European Plain meets the Channel coast facing England. In 2015…

Geneva, Switzerland — a city tucked between the Alps and the Jura mountains on the western tip of Lake Geneva — was where the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a global pandemic on March…

Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, sits on the Dnieper River in the heart of Eastern Europe — a vast, flat country on the North European Plain, wedged between the Carpathian Mountains to the west and…

Re'im is a small community in southern Israel, sitting on the flat semi-arid plain between the Mediterranean coast to the west and the Negev desert stretching south toward the Sinai Peninsula — the…