Globalization (Historical Perspective)

1. Age of proto-globalization (pre-Interwar Period)

1.1. imperialism/empire and colonization

1.2. slavery

1.3. rights revolution

1.4. many empires and struggle

2. International Radiotelegraph Conferences of 1920s and 1930s

2.1. radio regulatory model adopted for land-based television broadcasting and for satellite broadcasting later

2.2. ICAAN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is currently not very globally inclusive, but might change later in 2015

3. Nuremburg Trial

3.1. establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC)

4. U.S. Role during Interwar Period

4.1. Establishment of informal colonies in Latin America and the Philippines

5. Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989

6. U.S. Roles during the Cold War Era

6.1. Formation of international agencies by the U.S.

6.1.1. The World Bank (est. July 1944)

6.1.2. United Nations (est. June 1945)

6.1.3. International Monetary Fund (est. Dec. 1945)

6.2. President Truman’s inaugural address in January 1949

6.3. President Kennedy’s Manifest Destiny (1961)

6.4. Meeting with Mikahail Gorbachev in Iceland in 1986

6.5. U.S. neo-imperialsim today

7. United Nations role in the Cold War Era

7.1. First Decade of Development (1970s)

7.2. Second Decade of Development (1980s)

7.3. Third Decade of Development (1990s to present)