1. Unit 6: Contemporary
1900-Present

2. Tabs
6.1 Science & Environment 6.2 Global Conflict & Consequence 6.3 Global Economy, Society, and Culture

3. 6.1 Science & Environment Rapid advance in science
New comm & transport
Green Rev.= chemical & genetically enhanced forms of agriculture
Advanced med.
Oil & nuclear power
II. Pop. Expands = changed environment
Exploit earth’s resources
Global warming; pollution

4. 6.1 Science & Environment III. Demographic shift
Disease threatens human survival (Malaria, TB, Cholera, AIDS, Span. Flu
Birth control give women control over fertility & sex
Improved military tech. increases casualties (trench warfare, atomic bomb, tanks, planes, etc.)

5. 6.1 Science & Environment III. Demographic shift
Disease threatens human survival (Malaria, TB, Cholera, AIDS, Span. Flu
Birth control give women control over fertility & sex
Improved military tech. increases casualties (trench warfare, atomic bomb, tanks, planes, etc.)

6. 6.2 Global Conflict & Consequence
Europe dominated global political order; by end of cent. New forms of transregional pol. Orgs.
League of Nations; UN
Ottoman, Russian, & Qing Empires collapsed due to both internal & external factors
China= Poverty, rebellion, war, famine, over population, addiction, econ. Disaster
Russia= diverse ethnicities, comm. Not universally accepted, econ. Decline
Colonies negotiate independence (Africa, Middle East, Asia)

7. 6.2 Global Conflict & Consequence
II. Anti-imperialism dissolved empires
Kwame Nkrumah, Ho Chi Minh, Gandhi
Transnational movements unite ppl. Across national borders (Pan-Africanism, Communism)
Movements to redistribute land promoted socialism
III. Political change= demographic & social consequence
Redraw boundaries (Palestine, Middle East, Africa)
Ethnic violence & refugees (Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Armenia)

8. 6.2 Global Conflict & Consequence
IV. Military conflict
WWI &WWII first “total war”; used propaganda, colonies/civilians, & nationalism to mobilize
Global conflict b/c of comp. for resources, imperialist expansion, ethnic conflict
Balance of economic & pol. Power shifted into the Cold War (tension b/w capitalism & communism)
Cold War = NATO, Warsaw Pact
Cold War ended w/ dissolve of Soviet Union

9. 6.2 Global Conflict & Consequence
Challenge existing political, social, econ. Orders
Gandhi, MLK Jr., Anti-apartheid movement
Islamic fundamentalism (AL-Qaeda)
Military dictatorship (Chile, Spain, Uganda)

10. 6.3 Global Economy, Society, and Culture
Response to economic challenges
EU, WTO, WHO, UNICEF, Green Peace,“New Deal”
Made possible w/: WWI & II, Cold War, Global Warming; established standards
Communist nations controlled economies
W/ Great Depression, govs took greater role in economy
@ end of 20th cent, govs encourage free market

11. 6.3 Global Economy, Society, and Culture
III. Conceptualized society & culture in new ways
Human Rights
New cultural identities and exclusionary reaction (Negritude, Xenophobia, race riots)
IV. Pop culture
Olympics
Globalization of music
Reggae, Bolywood