1. Chapter 32

2.  How did the Cold War affect politics in Latin America and the Middle East in the 1970s and 1980s?  What forces led to the collapse of the Soviet Union?  What explains differences in the rate of population growth among the world’s cultural regions?  How does wealth inequality among nations impact international migration patterns?  How has technological change affected the global environment in the recent past?

3.  Revolutions, Repression, and Democratic Reform in Latin America ◦ Sandinistas vs. Contras (IRAN)  Islamic Revolutions in Iran and Afghanistan ◦ Shah vs Ayatollah  Asian Transformation ◦ Tigers!  China Rejoins the World Economy ◦ Deng Xiaoping ◦ Tiananmen Square

4.  Crisis in the Soviet Union ◦ Glasnost and perestroika  The Collapse of the Soviet Bloc ◦ The Wall Falls ◦ Ethnic Cleansing  Progress and Conflict in Africa ◦ Apartheid  The Persian Gulf War ◦ Saddam Hussein

5.  The Challenge of Population Growth  Demographic Transition  The Industrialized Nations  The Developing Nations  Old and Young Populations

6.  The Problem of Growing Inequality  Internal Migration: The Growth of Cities  Global Migration

7.  New Technologies and the World Economy  Conserving and Sharing Resources  Responding to Environmental Threats

8.  Postwar Economic Prosperity  The end of the Cold War came as a result of economic stress and political changes in the Soviet Union.  Postwar recovery by the industrial powers, Japan, the Asian Tigers, and ultimately China provided worldwide economic growth. International markets were more integrated and open than at any other time.

9.  Postwar Inequality  The new postwar prosperity has not been shared equally throughout the world. The capitalist West and a few Asian nations have grown more economically powerful, while most of the world’s nations remain poor.  Population growth in developing nations has diminished chances for economic growth. People in developing nations began migrating increasingly to industrial nations, providing valuable labor for factories and farms.  Growing inequality, population growth, and international migration remain problems for the global community.