Chapters 39-40
Interactions – Compare the patterns and results of decolonization in Africa and Asia; compare the colonial independence movement and different types of independence struggles with those that occurred earlier.
Economic/technology - Compare legacies of colonialism and patterns of economic development in various areas (Africa and Latin America – Mexico and Argentina)
Demography/environment – demographic and environmental impacts from this period, including: rising populations, new forms of birth control, green revolution, increasing environmental degradation, etc.
Social structures/gender structures - Social reform and social revolutions in the post-Cold War world - changing gender roles and family structures; rise of feminism; peasant protests; apartheid
Cultural and intellectual developments – changing cultural and intellectual developments during this time
States function and structures –
Understand the roles of the following during this time period: USSR, United States, CIA, Kenya, Mau Mau, Ghana, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Argentina, Zaire, Israel, Palestine, Pakistan, North Vietnam, South Africa, France, Germany, Russia, Italy, Great Britain, Algeria, Mexico, Argentina, Zaire, Nicaragua, China, Organization of African Unity, African National Congress, Sharpeville massacre, Great Calcutta Killing, Yom Kippur attack, Balfour Declaration, Suez Canal crisis, Iran-Iraq War, Gulf War, Institutional Revolutionary Party
Terms to understand: apartheid, Islamism, Great Leap Forward, Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square, Vietnamization, Paris Peace Accords, Descamisados
People to know: Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, Nelson Mandela, F. W. de Klerk, Patrice Lumumba, Laurent Kabila, Anwar Sadat, Mohandas Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Ayatollah Khomeini, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Mobotu Sese Seko, Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Saddam Hussein, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Ho Chi Minh, Ngo Dinh Diem, Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, Lázaro Cárdenas, Cuauhtemoc Cárdenas, Juan Perón, Eva Perón, Somoza
Interactions - Growth of international organizations (United Nations, NGOs, etc), their growth, and their impact on the global framework (globalization of diplomacy and conflict, human rights, etc.), global balance of power; and the reduction of European influence, increase in that of the US, and the rise of competing influences
Economic/technology - Legacies of colonialism and patterns of economic development in various areas (Africa, Asia – Four Tigers, and Latin America – Mexico and Argentina)
Demography/environment - Demographic and environmental changes: migrations (external, internal and tourism) implications of their mass movements; changes in birthrates and death rates (explosive population growth and new population control methods); new epidemics (AIDS), means and challenges in controlling epidemics, new forms of urbanization; deforestation; and green/environmental movements.
Social structures/gender structures - Social challenges from inequalities, new models of economic development, forced labor, and human trafficking
Cultural and intellectual developments - Globalization of science and culture: Developments in global cultures and regional reactions, including science and consumer culture
States function and structures – role of states in sponsoring terrorism
Understand the roles of the following during this time period: USSR, India, Myanmar, Afghanistan, Pakistan, China, US, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Japan
Terms to understand: One-child family rule, McDonaldization, Mujahideen, Warsaw Pact, United Nations, World Trade Organization / WTO, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries / OPEC, ASEAN, the European Union / EU, NGO, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Americanization, Al Qaeda, Biodiversity, Global warming, Red Cross, Greenpeace, “little tigers”, Asian economic crisis
People to Know: Mikhail Gorbachev, Indira Gandhi, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Osama bin Laden, Mao Zedong, Benazir Bhuto, Rachel Carson,
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