Essential Question: How have advances in science and technology made the world more globally interdependent and affected people's lives?
ENDURING UNDERSTANDINGS:
· Advanced methods of communication help spread ideas across a society.
· Advancements in technology help improve the way of life of Americans.
· Religion plays an important role in American society but does not drive daily life.
· Trade plays in important role in spreading culture and innovation across societies.
· A democratic free society where citizens are actively engaged in government helps safeguard human rights of Americans.
· Education is essential for the progress of American society
· Protecting the public health of a society is essential for progress.
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Reading Comprehension (Questions to consider)
Section One (pages 2151-2161)
How did space exploration become one of the world’s first and most successful arenas for cooperation between the US and Soviet scientists?
What was the impact of the development of smaller, more powerful computers?
Explain the development of communication networks.
How did improvements in health and medicine transform human life?
Explain the Green Revolution.
Section Two (pages 2162-2175)
How did technology revolutionize the world’s economy?
How did information industries change economies?
What are multinational corporations?
What is free trade? How did it expand after World War II?
What are regional trade blocs?
What are some of the challenges facing less-developed nations?
What are the political impacts of economic development?
What are the environmental impacts of economic development?
What is sustainable growth?
Section 3 - Global Security Issues
What actions have nations taken to pursue collective security?
Explain how religious and ethnic conflicts have disrupted peace in certain areas around the world?
Explain the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
How have governments and non governmental groups around the world fought for Civil Rights.
How has the status of women improved in western nations in recent years?
Explain the causes of the worldwide phenomenon of global migration?
What is the push-pull factor related to migration?
What are the effects of immigration?
Section 4 - Case Study on Terrorism
What is terrorism? What are some of the methods modern terrorists?
How have governments responded to terrorism?
Briefly explain some of the terrorist events that have happened around the world?
What was the US response after 9/11?
Section 5 - Cultures Blend in a Golden Age
What is Popular Culture?
Explain how television and other mass media have helped spread popular culture?
What are some of the international elements of popular culture?
Explain the western influences on different cultures throughout the world?
What is materialism?
What are some of the non-western influences that have traveled to the West?
How have the arts become international?
How will a new global world potentially create a new era of cultural clashes?
How has global interdependence provided hope for a more cooperative world?
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