A GLOBAL ERA

2. A GLOBAL ERA • THE WORLD WARS • THE WORLD ECONOMY • WORLD TRADE • WORLD CINEMA • WORLD LITERATURE • FUSION FOOD • OLYMPIC MOVEMENT

3. Last Era Generalizations Western Science and Art Diffusion A Century of War: The World at War 1914-1945 The Cold War Era 1945-1991 Decolonization New World Order—a war on terrorism Civil Society in the 20th Century: Individualism and its Discontents Industrialization Diffusion The Embattled Biosphere Concepts taken from World by Felipe Fernandez Armesto

4. New Ways of Seeing Humanity • Einstein and Freud

5. Picasso and modern art(Syncretism with African art traditions)

6. Diffusion of Western Scientific and Medical Knowledge

7. The World Game

8. World Wars • Industrial Killing (the technology of murder) • Imperial Contests • Unprecedented Destruction

11. Some WWI Consequences • Continued Imperialism in Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia • Expansion of Japanese Imperialism in China (continues in ‘20s and ‘30s, until WWII) • Expansion of Imperialism in Middle East (Mandate System) • Establishment of Independent Turkey—Kemalist reforms (westernizing) • End of Ottoman and Russian Empires

14. WWII Consequences • Cold War rivalries • Stronger international institutions including the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund • Decolonization momentum • Little initial conflict in India (a violent division of Indian and Pakistan follows independence) • Relatively peaceful in Indonesia and much of Africa • Embattled in places like Algeria, Vietnam (both French colonies), and Kenya (British)

18. Cold War Rivalries (MAD; Détente) • Both a factor for decolonization, especially in Africa and Indonesia, and an impediment to decolonization, especially in Vietnam. • Fought indirectly: Races, Olympics, Propaganda • Indirect or Proxy Wars like Korea and Vietnam • Kept the world highly militarized in the late 20th century

20. Civil Society • A Century of Atrocities • A Century of Totalitarian State Power • A Century of Individualism

21. State Directed Murder: Genocide and War

22. A Catalogue of Horrors • Armenian Genocide (1.5 million killed) • Holocaust (12 million killed) • Chinese Famine after GLF (30 million killed) • Congo at both the beginning and the end of the century (1900-1908: 3 million dead; 1995-2000 2 million dead) • Ethnic cleansing in Iraq, Bosnia, Rwanda, Sudan • Cambodia (Khmer Rouge 1.7 million killed)

25. State Power Changing Society • STALINISM • 5 Year Plans; Gulags; Show trials • MAOISM • Great Leap Forward; Cultural Revolution • Development plans in newly independent societies (Nkrumah’s plans in Ghana) • Land Reforms in Latin America (Mexican Revolution) • Industrialization in China and India after 1980

28. State Control of Information

29. The March of Individualism • Freedom of Communications • Human as Consumer • Freedom and Equality • Diminishing Patriarchy • The Diffusion of People--immigration

30. The massive movement of people after World War II (largely from poor areas of the world to rich areas of the world)—what some call counter-colonization {the movement of peoples from former colonies to former imperial powers}

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34. Ideology Of Imperialism

35. AiméCésaire Negritude, Satyagraha, attacking racist ideologies

37. Writers and thinkers like Betty Freidan and Simone de Beauvoir • Political leaders like Indira Gandhi and Aung Sang SuuKyi • Womens groups in Revolutionary Movements • Chinese Marriage Law of 1950 • Increased access to education

39. Jobs moving to newly industrialized areas

40. Rise of Fundamentalist Movements India Hindu Fundamentalism

41. Islamic Fundamentalism

42. Christian Fundamentalism

43. Changing our relationship with the Land

48. Shanghai