1. Unit 7: The Changing WorldBy
Andrew C. Jackson

2. Struggles for Power (1096) World Wars The Cold War Independence
World powers fought for domination
The Cold War
Democracy vs. communism
Independence
Localized
Terrorism

3. Triumphs and Tragedies of Science and Technology
Planes, trains, and automobiles
Microchip
Late 1950’s
Medicine
antibiotics
War
Biological/chemical weapons
Natural resources
pollution

4. New Ways of Living (1097) Pace is quicker Beginning of 20th century
Mostly rural
End of 20th century
40% urban
Rich and poor
Still a widening gap

5. Global Interdependence
Trade, technology, and communications
Made the world “smaller” and more “flat”
Positives
Can help underdeveloped countries
Negatives
Countries can lose identities

6. Democracy and Education
Democracy is spreading
Especially for women and minorities
Education is much more available now
Almost every country now offers something

7. Timeline ( )
Look over and ask questions. I will try to help answer them.

8. Expressions of Modernism (1102-1103)
Type I Writing (see me for details)

9. Social Change in Europe (1104)
WWI losses horrified people
Russia
Revolution led to communism
Cars and radios
Gave some freedom
The bad guys
Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin

10. Breakdown of traditional beliefs
Charles Darwin
Origin of Species
Sigmund Freud
Father of psychology
Albert Einstein
Theory of relativity

11. Alienation of the Artist (1105)
Distant
Hostile
Banded together

12. Search for the new Rallying cry of modernists: “Make it new!”
Ezra Pound (poet)

13. Part 2: When Worlds Collide
Responses to War and Conflict (pp )
The Russian Revolution and the Cold War
The Great War
An Even Greater War
Struggles for Independence
Fighting for Freedom

14. World War I (1202) 1914-1918 Allied Powers Central Powers Armistice
U.S. entered in 1917, turning tide of war
Allied Powers
Russia, France, Great Britain, Italy, and others
Central Powers
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire
Armistice
Led to WWII

15. The Russian Revolution and aftermath
1917
Czar Nicholas II forced from power
Bolsheviks
Led by Vladimir Lenin—became USSR
Joseph Stalin
Brutal dictator—killed many of his own people

16. Revolution in China (1204) 1912 1928 1949 1966 Sun Yat-sen
Chiang Kai-shek took control (hard on communists)
1949
Mao Zedong makes China communist
1966
Cultural revolution

17. Collapse of Colonial Empires
India
Mohandas Ghandi led separation from GB
Nigeria
Became independent in 1960 from GB
Algeria
Won independence from France in ‘62
South Africa
Ended apartheid in 1991

18. The Cold War Democracy vs. Communism Iron curtain Korea Vietnam
U.S. against Eastern Europe primarily
Iron curtain
Separation of West and East (Churchill)
Korea
(to stop spread of communism)
Vietnam
(same philosophy as Korea)
Space race
Nuclear and astronaut competion
Glasnost
Ended communism in USSR and much of world

19. Conflicts in Latin America (1205)
Argentina
Juan Peron became dictator
Chile
Salvador Allende was militaristic leader
Cuba
Fidel Castro is military dictator

20. Conflicts in the Middle East
Zionism
Movement to move Jewish homeland to Palestine
Palestine
Was divided up in 1948 (conflict has been there ever since
Iran/Iraq
1,000,000 people died in war between these two countries in the 1980’s
Saddam Hussein recently overthrown by U.S.

21. Other ethnic conflicts
Yugoslavia
Bosnia-Herzegovina was part of group that voted for independence
Ethnic cleansing resulted
U.S. intervened to forge peace agreement in 1995

22. Here endeth the lesson
Andrew Jackson
August, 2012