Globalization By entchen 1492 Christopher Columbus Period: 1830 to 1850 Invention of electric telegraph Period: 1870 to 1914 Industrial Revolution Period: 1940 to 1945 World War II Period: 1944 to 1947 Foundation of World Institutions Period: 1947 to 1989 Cold War 1960 Invention of the Internet 1971 Invention of microprocessor 1995 Foundation of WTO 1999 Seattle Anti-Globalization Movement