Key Concept Period 6 c to Present

Key Concept 6.1 Science and Environment

Rapid Advances in Science New modes of communication and transportationcommunication New scientific paradigms o The theory of relativity The theory of relativity o Quantum mechanics Quantum mechanics o The Big Bang theory o Psychology Psychology The Green Revolution Energy technologies raised productivity

Medical Innovations Increased ability of humans to survive o The polio vaccine The polio vaccine o Antibiotics Antibiotics o The artificial heart The artificial heart More effective forms of birth control First Artificial Heart

Changed Relationship with Environment As the global population expanded... Humans exploited and competed over the earth’s finite resources Global warming was a major consequence Pollution threatened the world’s supply of water and clean air. Deforestation and desertification Rates of extinction of other species accelerated sharply.

Diseases Associated with Poverty Malaria Tuberculosis Cholera

Emergent Epidemic Diseases 1918 influenza pandemic Ebola HIV/AIDS

Diseases Associated with Changing Lifestyles Diabetes Heart disease Alzheimer's disease

Improved Military Technology Tanks Airplanes The atomic bomb

New Tactics Trench warfare Firebombing

Wartime Casualties Nanjing Dresden Hiroshima (No pictures on this slide, all you need to know is that these events were awful and many people died gruesome deaths)

Key Concept 6.2 Global Conflicts and Their Consequences

Collapse of Empires OttomanOttoman, Russian and Qing Empires collapsed due to internal and external factors:RussianQing Economic hardships Political and social discontent Technological stagnation Military defeat

Colonies Negotiate Independence India from the British Empire India The Gold Coast from the British Empire The Gold Coast

Independence Through Armed Struggles Algeria and Vietnam from French Empire AlgeriaVietnam Angola from the Portugese Empire Angola

Nationalist Leaders Challenged imperial rule in Asia and Africa Mohandas Gandhi Ho Chi Minh Kwame Nkrumah

Regional, Religious, and Ethnic Movements Challenged colonial movements Inherited imperial boundaries Muhammad Ali Jinnah The Québécois separatist movement The Biafra secessionist movement

Transnational Movements Communism Pan-Arabism Pan-Africanism Movements to redistribute land and resources developed in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, sometimes advocating communism and socialism.

Population Resettlements The India/Pakistan partition The Zionist Jewish settlement of Palestine The division of the Middle East into mandatory statesMiddle East into mandatory states

Migrations Former colonial subjects migrated to imperial metropoles; maintained cultural and economic ties between colony and metropole even after the dissolution of empires. South Asians to Britain Algerians to France Filipinos to the United States

Ethnic Violence and Displacement Ethnic Violence: Armenia The Holocaust Cambodia Rwanda Displacement of people and refugee populations: Palestinians Darfurians

Global Military Conflicts World War I and World War II were the first “total wars.” Governments used ideologies, including fascism, nationalism and communism, to mobilize all of their state’s resources, including peoples, both in the home countries and the colonies or former colonies, for the purpose of waging war. Governments also used a variety of strategies, including political speeches, art, media, and intensified forms of nationalism, to mobilize these populations.

Mobilization of State's Resources The Gurkha soldiers in India The ANZAC troops in AustraliaANZAC Military conscription

Sources of Global Conflict Imperialist expansion by European powers and Japan Competition for resources Ethnic conflict Great power rivalries between Great Britain and Germany Nationalist ideologies The economic crisis engendered by the Great Depression

Cold War Global balance of economic and political power shifted; US and Soviet Union Capitalism vs Communism NATO and Warsaw Pact Dissolution of Soviet Union ended Cold War Capitalism vs Communism Quotes Slideshow

Opposition of War Picasso in his Guernica The anti nuclear movement during the Cold War Thich Quang Duc by self-immolation Thich Quang Duc Gandhi Martin Luther King

Groups That Promoted Alternatives Communist leaders such as Vladimir Lenin and Mao ZedongVladimir LeninMao Zedong The Non-Aligned Movement, which presented an alternative political bloc to the Cold WarNon-Aligned Movement The Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa The Anti-Apartheid Movement Participants in the global uprisings of 1968 (Podcast at top of site)global uprisings of 1968 The Tiananmen Square protestors that promoted Democracy in ChinaTiananmen Square

Responses that Intensified Conflict The promotion of military dictatorship in Chile, Spain, and Uganda The United States’ promotion of a New World Order after the Cold War The buildup of the “military-industrial complex” and arms trading

Violence Against Civilians IRA ETA Al-Qaeda

Influence on Popular Culture Dada James Bond Socialist Realism Video games

Key Concept 6.3 New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society, and Culture

Communist Governments Controlled National Economies The Five-Year Plans The Great Leap Forward

Government Intervention in the Economy The New Deal The Fascist corporatist economy

Governments Guiding Economic Life Nasser’s promotion of economic development in Egypt Nasser The encouragement of export-oriented economies in East Asia

Governments Encouraging Free Market Policies The United States starting with Ronald Reagan The United States Britain under Margaret ThatcherMargaret Thatcher China under Deng XiaopingDeng Xiaoping Chile under PinochetPinochet

New International Organizations The League of Nations The United Nations The International Criminal Court

New Economic Institutions Sought to spread the principles and practices associated with free market economics throughout the world The International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Bank World Trade Organization (WTO)

Humanitarian Organizations UNICEF The Red Cross Amnesty International Doctors Without Borders World Health Organization (WHO)

Regional Trade Agreements Regional trading blocs designed to promote the movement of capital and goods across national borders The European Union NAFTA ASEAN Mercosur

Multinational Corporations Royal Dutch Shell Coca-Cola Sony

Protest Movements Protested the inequality of environmental and economic consequences of global integration Greenpeace Green Belt in Kenya Earth Day

Human Rights The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human RightsUniversal Declaration of Human Rights Women's rights The end of the White Australia Policy

New Cultural Identities/Exclusionary Reactions Negritude Xenophobia Race riots Citizenship restrictions

Spirituality New forms of spirituality o New Age Religions New Age Religions o Hare Krishna Hare Krishna o Falun Gong Falun Gong Application of religion to political issues o Fundamentalist movements o Liberation Theology

Global Culture Sports World Cup Soccer The Olympics Cricket Diffusion of music and film Reggae Bollywood

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