A return to agricultural lifestyles

Advances in transportation

Advances in communication

Investment in foreign markets

Spread of mass culture around the world

Footloose firm

Brick and mortar company

Conglomerate corporation

Flexible organization

Unencumbered corporation

A company that conducts different areas of its business in different countries.

A company that produces expensive and specialized goods.

A company that conducts all areas of its business in one country.

A company that produces cheap goods to be sold on a global market.

A company that receives significant advantages from the governments of various countries.

Ciudad Juárez

Mexico City

Buenos Aires

Sao Paolo

Trinidad and Tobago

All of these answers slowed the momentum of globalization in the twentieth century

World War I

World War II

the Cold War

the Great Depression

reduce trading time and expenses between Europe and India

facilitate British control over the Middle East and the Mediterranean

allow the British navy to quickly move from the Arabian Sea to the Mediterranean during the Crimean War

improve the economic viability of Egypt as a European colony

solidify French control over the Middle East and North Africa

export-processing cities in northern Mexico

blossoming markets in Latin America

countries in Latin America who have not integrated smoothly into the global economy

workers in northern Mexico who are campaigning for the forced eviction of American businesses from the region

workers in Latin America who lobby their government to provide tax incentives to encourage foreign businesses to set up branches in the region