Accelerating Global Interaction

Chapter 24 concentrates on the twentieth century, when people mainly talked about the immense growth in international economic transactions that took place in the second half of the twentieth century and also continued into the twenty-first. In 1970's globalization started building up, United States and Great Britain had abandoned many early political control on economic activity as people were viewing the world as a single market. Globalization was huge in this years countries were diving up, Mexico was also part of it. Close business and manufacturing ties to the United States, grew much more prosperous then the South. But at the end, economic penetration, political pressure, and periodic military action sought to create societies and governments compatibles with the values and interests of the dominant power, but with out directly governing large populations for long populations for long period of time.