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Contemporary World
Evidence 3
Sebastian Ruiz Chong
16/11/2022
List and briefly describe important events of the last decades
(from the crisis of the socialist bloc until today, the digital era).
• End of the Cold War (1985-1991)
During 1989 and 1990, the Berlin Wall came down, borders opened, and free elections ousted Communist regimes
everywhere in eastern Europe. In late 1991 the Soviet Union itself dissolved into its component republics. With
stunning speed, the Iron Curtain was lifted, and the Cold War came to an end.
• Creation of the digital camera (1988)
Steven Sasson, an engineer at Eastman Kodak, invented and built a self-contained electronic camera that used a
CCD image sensor in 1975. Around the same time, Fujifilm began developing CCD technology in the 1970s. Early
uses were mainly military and scientific; followed by medical and news applications.
• Disintegration of the USSR (1991)
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the process of internal disintegration within the Soviet Union (USSR) which
resulted in the end of the country ' s and its federal government' s existence as a sovereign state, thereby resulting
in its constituent republics gaining full sovereignty on 26 December 1991.
• Creation and design of the World Wide Web (1989-1990)
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The
Web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between
scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
• Attack on the Twin Towers (2001)
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by
the militant Islamist extremist network al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001.
Describe the following terms: 
• Globalization: Globalization is an inevitable phenomenon in human history that
has brought the world closer through the exchange of goods and products,
information, knowledge and culture.
• Terrorism: Terrorism violates the most central values of the United Nations
Charter: respect for human rights, the rule of law, the laws and practices of war
that protect the civilian population, tolerance among peoples and nations, and the
peaceful settlement of disputes.
• Unipolar World: This is the name given to the concentration of global hegemonic
power in a single pole. This does not mean that the superpower has absolute
power over the entire world, but rather that it is considered the protagonist in the
field of international relations, and as such it has the greatest military and
economic capacity compared to the rest of the countries.
• Digital Era: It arises as a technological convergence of electronics, software and
telecommunications infrastructures, originating what is now known as the digital
revolution.
Think deeply about each concept, make a description that allows you to
connect each term with the list of events provident previously (Number 2),
and then answer the following questions:
• Why did the globalization emerge?
After World War II, a new international economic order was established, based on the world
hegemony of the United States of America, which supposedly gave rise to the longest cycle
of economic prosperity since the world was capitalist. This model could only be sustained
through war: a cold war against communism, a hot war against the third world, to maintain
supplies for the center. When both types of war are combined, we have the war stories that
marked this period: the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
• In most cases, what caused the terrorist´s attacks of XX Century?
The central objective of terrorism is to deny and prevent the existing pluralism in Basque
society, to end pluralism by exterminating the dissidents of nationalism, or reserving for
them the role of citizens with fewer rights, that is, weakening and ending freedoms and
guarantees of the rights of citizens and implant a totalitarian regime. To achieve the central
objective of ending pluralism, terrorism has the objective of sharpening the division of
society, so that the different positions become irreconcilable, consensus is abandoned, and
enemy fronts are created.
• How does the end of the Cold War relate with the Unipolar
World?
Because the United States beats Russia, that makes it (the United States) the greatest
power in the world. Because it would be said that at that time we lived in a unipolar world, in
which the USA had the best that its inhabitants could have, a stable economic system, low
unemployment rate, public services, etc.
• How has the Digital Era influenced today's society?
Thanks to the Digital Revolution, it has opened doors in different areas that make us better
every day, such as medicine, international relations, science, etc. The creation of cell
phones, so used and necessary to live; televisions, the most compact and fastest
computers and laptops, the Internet with a wide reach
References
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is the Unipolar World? 
• Abdul Torres. (2010). Origin of Globalization. 16/11/2022, from eumed.net 
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https://www.britannica.com/event/September-11-attacks 
• Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia (2020, March 6). digital camera. 
Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/technology/digitalcamera
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