1. The world is changing – threats are rising
EU – 1. The world is getting closer, smaller and more interdependent through the process of globalization
Historical scientific developments affect us directly today in many ways
The post-colonial, Cold War and post-Cold War eras have led to both significant development and significant challenges for the continents of Asia, Africa and South America
The world is changing – threats are rising
Warm-up – Technological changes and their effects on us
Identify 4 historical events that have led to globalization. How has globalization affected you?
Complete Page 19 and add a column to the right – Effects of the Effects – use specific examples from your own life or news from today
How may globalization affect your future? Read page 20
Complete page 21 about security issues using tonight’s homework (Epilogue)
Create a list of three examples of how global security is currently threatened.
Explain the causes of these threats (like over population) using information from this course.
answer homework question – create a list of organizations, institutions and government agencies that work to address these issues. How effective have they been?
Continue a 6 level regional timeline with following events
Unit 7 test tomorrow
- load gapminder world button

2. Technology Space Exploration Robotics Communications
Health, medicine and Genetics
Agriculture
Nanotechnology

4. Terrorism and Al Qaeda
Sunni Muslim global organization loosely led by:
Osama Bin Laden – a younger son of a very wealthy Saudi Arabia family that is friends with the Bush family
Was trained by CIA operatives as one of the mujahedin in Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion there
Operates out of Afghanistan and Pakistan
Goals are:
Try to destroy Israel
Destroy the global power of the US – including getting the US out of Saudi Arabia
Spread Strict Islam to all of the Middle East – maybe even the world
Method is to use terrorism like
World trade center bombing in 1993,
Attack on US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998
2000 attack on USS Cole in Yemen
2001 attacks on 9/11
Bombing of Madrid trains 2004
London Subway 2005

5. East Asia
Western
Hemisphere
Africa
Europe
Middle East
China
1930
1940
1950
1960
1970
1980
1990
2000

6. Create a 6 level Timeline
Balfour Declaration
Israeli independence/al-Nahkba
6-day War
Yom Kippur War
Camp David Accords
Oslo Accords
Independence of:
Congo
Kenya
Ghana
South Africa
Algeria
Angola
Philippines
Burma
Indonesia
Malaysia
India
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Great Leap Forward
Deng’s Four Modernizations
Tiananmen Square
Hong Kong Returns to China
Democracy takes hold in:
Argentina
Mexico
Brazil
South Africa
Nigeria
End of Apartheid
Development of:
Genetics
Space Station
Internet/www