UNIT 7 CHAPTER 39 & 40: THE END OF EMPIRE AP World History – Kimberly Zerbst

What are we learning today?  Pan-Arabism  Zionism in Palestine – displacement of Palestinians  Anti-Apartheid movement in S. Africa  Social developments, cultural changes, intellectual trends  Independence for Africa  Independence for Asia  Latin American “independence”  Ronald Regan & Margaret Thatcher  Coca-Cola  New Economic Institutions

Islamic resurgence Palestinians Iran-Iraq War Pan-Arabism

Transnational movement – Pan Arabism  Sought to unite people based on religion as a basis for culture rather than national boundaries  Can you think of other transnational movements that try to consolidate people based on ideas rather than national boundaries?

Islamic resurgence  OPEC (66% of world’s oil)  Fundamental Islam  Destabilization because of the Arab/Israeli conflict  Cold war superpower competition  Dictatorships

Zionism in Palestine Israeli Statehood – May 14, 1948 Arab opposition to statehood

Palestine

S. African Anti-Apartheid movement Independence movements Nassar in Egypt Africa after Colonialism

Anti-Apartheid movement  1948 general election  1952 African National congress begins peaceful resistance against “whites only” park benches  1953 Bantu Education Act  1956 Mandela arrested  1959 Bantustans created  1962 Mandel arrested again (Life in Prison)  1974 S. African loses UN membership  1985 Steven Van Zandt, U2, Paul Simon all make music for Anti-Apartheid  1990 Mandela released  1994 Mandela becomes president

Vietnam Cultural revolution in China Tiananmen Square Indian democracy Asia after Colonialism

Argentina Guatemala Nicaragua Latin & South America “after colonialism”

Checking for Understanding 1. Pan-Arabism is an example of what kind of movement. 2. Give other examples of transnational movements from history 3. Whose claim to Israel is more valid, Muslim Palestinians or Jewish Israelis? 4. Give evidence that could prove that de- colonization was rarely smooth.

Reagan, Thatcher, Gorbachev

Coca-Cola

Coca Cola statistics

New Economic Institutions  IMF  World Bank  WTO

New Religions  New Age Religions  Hare Krishna  Falun Gong  Are these religions syncretic?

Putting it ALL together  Do you think there will every be another non- syncretic form of religion in the future?  Using your knowledge of past religious, migratory, economic, social, or political history (or any other kind of history) write a thesis statement that would adequately answer that question in three groupings.

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