1. AP World History
Unit 6

2. The Basics Three Key Concepts About 20% of the Total Exam
Science and the Environment (6.1)
Global Conflicts and Their Consequences (6.2)
New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society, and Culture (6.3)
About 20% of the Total Exam

3. Science and the Environment
Science helps us
New communications and technology  Globalization
Helps us to understand the world around us better
Helps us to live longer
New energy sources  More productivity
The Green Revolution

4. Science and the Environment
Science hurts us
More competition over limited resources
Release of greenhouse gases & other pollutants  Global warming
Pollution threatens water and air
Deforestation and desertification
Rates of species extinction increase

5. Science and the Environment
Science causes demographic shifts
Disease of poverty continue
New diseases emerge
Live longer  More disease
More effective birth control gives women control over fertility and “transformed sexual practice”
Military technology and practice increased wartime causalties

6. Continuity and Change? Effects of science (Positive and Negative)
Disease shifts
Cure some diseases, but other diseases show up
Impact of technology on war
After WWI?
After WWII?

7. Global Conflicts and Their Consequences
Transition from Empires to Transregional political organizations
Ottomans, Russians, and Qing collapse
Why?
Independence of colonies
Negotiation v. Armed Struggle
Sounds like a good comparison question
What does post-independence look like?

8. Global Conflicts and Their Consequences
Ideologies of Anti-Imperialism
Role of Nationalist leaders
Ghandi, Ho Chi Minh, etc.
Regional, Religious, and Ethnic movements
What is the definition of nation?
Are these movements a form of nationalism?
Transnational movements
Communism, Pan-Arabism, Pan-Slavism
Land redistribution  Communism/Socialism(?)

9. Global Conflicts and Their Consequences
Demographic/Social Consequences
Redrawing of boundaries  Population resettlement
Migration of former colonial subjects to imperial metropoles maintains cultural/economic ties
Similar to growth of ethnic enclaves in 19th Century
Proliferation of ethnic conflict  Displacement of peoples  Increase in refugees

10. Global Conflicts and Their Consequences
Military Conflicts on Unprecedented Scales
WWI & WWII
First “Total” Wars
Ideology and Propaganda (Fascism, Nationalism, Communism)
Use of empires resources

11. Global Conflicts and Their Consequences
Military Conflicts on Unprecedented Scales
Causes of Conflict in sub-period I ( )
Imperialist Expansion by European Powers & Japan
Competition for Resources
Ethnic Conflict
Great Power Rivalries Between Germany and Great Britain
Nationalist Ideologies
The Great Depression
WWI and WWII merged as two acts of one really long play

12. Global Conflicts and Their Consequences
Military Conflicts on Unprecedented Scales
Shifts after WWII to Superpower Conflict
USA v. USSR
Capitalism v. Communism
New military alliances
NATO v. Warsaw Pact
“Proxy Wars”
Dissolution of USSR ends the Cold War

13. Global Conflicts and Their Consequences
Opposition to Conflict
Practice of Nonviolence
Individuals who opposed war
Alternatives to political, economic, and social orders
Non-Alignment Movement, Anti-Apartheid Movement, Tiananmen Square Protestors
Supporters of Conflict
Conflict breeds more conflict
Violence against civilians (AKA Terrorism)
Influence on Popular Culture
Everything from James Bond to COD

14. Try this
Which of the following best describes the 1936 lithograph (entitled The Hero) by German artist George Grosz?
A propaganda poster prepared by the Nazi Party
A protest poster against the atrocities of the atomic bomb
A representation of a Holocaust victim
A post-First World War print expressing antiwar sentiment

15. Try this D is the correct answer
Which of the following best describes the 1936 lithograph (entitled The Hero) by German artist George Grosz?
A propaganda poster prepared by the Nazi Party
A protest poster against the atrocities of the atomic bomb
A representation of a Holocaust victim
A post-First World War print expressing antiwar sentiment
D is the correct answer

16. Try this
Which of the following best describes the 1936 lithograph (entitled The Hero) by German artist George Grosz?
A propaganda poster prepared by the Nazi Party
A protest poster against the atrocities of the atomic bomb
A representation of a Holocaust victim
A post-First World War print expressing antiwar sentiment
Why?

17. New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society, and Culture
Responding to Economic Challenges of 20th Century
In Communist China & USSR government controlled national economy
Great Depression  More government involvement in economy
Role of government in economies of newly independent states
Free market policies and economic liberalization
Deng Xiaoping’s China, Gorbachev’s Perestroika

18. New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society, and Culture
Increasing Interdependence
New International Organizations Promote Peace and Cooperation
New economic institutions promote free market economics
Humanitarian Organizations respond to crises
Regional Trade Agreements
Multi-national corporations challenge state authority
Protests of consequences of global integration
Environmental Consequences & Economic Consequences

19. Globalization Good Comparison Question Good CCOT Question
Effects of Globalization on East Asia/South Asia/Middle East v. SE Asia/Latin America
Think about World-Systems Theory & Core/Periphery
Good CCOT Question
Process of globalization
“World System” goes back to at least Classical Period
Homogenization of Regional Cultures?
Is there a global culture or is it one region’s culture that becomes dominant?
Jihad v. McWorld?
What does it all mean?

20. New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society, and Culture
New conceptualizations of society and culture
Notion of Human Rights
Increase interactions  New cultural identities & “exclusionary reactions”
New forms of spirituality & new emphases with old religions
Political applications of religious values

21. New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society, and Culture
Globalization of Popular & Consumer Culture
Sports
Nationalist Aspirations
Social Aspirations
Widespread diffusion of music and film
Why? Better technology in communications and transportation
Not just American culture – think Bollywood/Reggae

22. Or even…Bad Rap

23. And a reaction to bad rap