AP World History Unit 9: Globalization | APWH Activities, DBQ, SAQs, LEQs & Review
AP World History Unit 9: Globalization | APWH Activities, DBQ, SAQs, LEQs & Review
Make AP World History: Modern Unit 9 – Globalization (c. 1900–Present) meaningful, manageable, and AP-exam focused with this comprehensive teaching resource designed to move students beyond memorization and into historical analysis.
This complete Unit 9 resource explores how technological innovation, global economic integration, international institutions, migration, cultural exchange, social movements, and environmental concerns transformed the modern world. Students examine not only how globalization increased connections across borders, but also its unequal effects, challenges, and resistance.
Students investigate major Unit 9 concepts including containerization, the Green Revolution, digital communication, multinational corporations, outsourcing, global supply chains, the IMF, World Bank, WTO, European Union, NGOs, migration and remittances, cultural homogenization, human rights, environmental movements, and resistance to globalization. The vocabulary activities progress from identification and historical significance to evidence-based application and contextual writing.
What’s Included:
- Historical background readings on technology and global interconnectedness, economic globalization, and cultural/political responses
- Multi-part Unit 9 vocabulary activities
- Primary source analysis and document-based historical thinking
- Historical evidence activities
- Globalization timeline activity
- Complete DBQ with key
- AP-style Short-Answer Questions (SAQs)
- AP-style Long Essay Questions (LEQs)
- Causation, comparison, contextualization, and continuity/change practice
- Argument development and evidence-based writing
- Detailed teacher support and answer keys
- AP World History: Modern course and exam alignment
The readings deliberately build across the unit. Students begin by examining technological innovation—including transportation, communication, medicine, agriculture, energy, and the digital divide—before moving into global markets, international institutions, multinational corporations, outsourcing, migration, remittances, and global supply chains.
The final portion broadens the discussion to popular culture, international institutions, human rights, environmental movements, NGOs, migration, and resistance to globalization, helping students evaluate globalization as a complex process that created both greater integration and continuing economic, political, and cultural differences.
The resource is designed to strengthen the AP historical thinking skills students need throughout the course and on the exam, including causation, comparison, continuity and change over time, contextualization, sourcing, evidence analysis, and argumentation.
Perfect for: whole-class instruction, guided practice, small groups, independent work, homework, sub plans, unit review, and AP exam preparation.
Grade Level: 9–12
Course: AP World History: Modern
Unit: Unit 9 – Globalization
Time Period: c. 1900–Present
Format: Printable PDF / Digital-Friendly
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