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Key Concept Period 6

Key Concept Period 6. c. 1900 to Present. Key Concept 6.1. Science and Environment. Rapid Advances in Science. New modes of communication and transportation New scientific paradigms The theory of relativity Quantum mechanics The Big Bang theory Psychology The Green Revolution

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Key Concept Period 6

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  1. Key Concept Period 6 c. 1900 to Present

  2. Key Concept 6.1 Science and Environment

  3. Rapid Advances in Science • New modes of communication and transportation • New scientific paradigms • The theory of relativity • Quantum mechanics • The Big Bang theory • Psychology • The Green Revolution • Energy technologies raised productivity

  4. Medical Innovations • Increased ability of humans to survive • The polio vaccine • Antibiotics • The artificial heart • More effective forms of birth control First Artificial Heart

  5. Changed Relationship with Environment As the global population expanded... • Humans exploited and competed over the earth’s finite resources • Global warming was a major consequence • Pollution threatened the world’s supply of water and clean air. • Deforestation and desertification • Rates of extinction of other species accelerated sharply.

  6. Diseases Associated with Poverty • Malaria • Tuberculosis • Cholera

  7. Emergent Epidemic Diseases • 1918 influenza pandemic • Ebola • HIV/AIDS

  8. Diseases Associated with Changing Lifestyles • Diabetes • Heart disease • Alzheimer's disease

  9. Improved Military Technology • Tanks • Airplanes • The atomic bomb

  10. New Tactics • Trench warfare • Firebombing

  11. Wartime Casualties • Nanjing • Dresden • Hiroshima (No pictures on this slide, all you need to know is that these events were awful and many people died gruesome deaths)

  12. Key Concept 6.2 Global Conflicts and Their Consequences

  13. Collapse of Empires Ottoman, Russian and Qing Empires collapsed due to internal and external factors: • Economic hardships • Political and social discontent • Technological stagnation • Military defeat

  14. Colonies Negotiate Independence • India from the British Empire • The Gold Coast from the British Empire

  15. Independence Through Armed Struggles • Algeria and Vietnam from French Empire • Angola from the Portugese Empire

  16. Nationalist Leaders Challenged imperial rule in Asia and Africa • Mohandas Gandhi • Ho Chi Minh • Kwame Nkrumah

  17. Regional, Religious, and Ethnic Movements • Challenged colonial movements • Inherited imperial boundaries • Muhammad Ali Jinnah • The Québécois separatist movement • The Biafra secessionist movement

  18. Transnational Movements • Communism • Pan-Arabism • Pan-Africanism Movements to redistribute land and resources developed in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, sometimes advocating communism and socialism.

  19. Population Resettlements • The India/Pakistan partition • The Zionist Jewish settlement of Palestine • The division of the Middle East into mandatory states

  20. Migrations Former colonial subjects migrated to imperial metropoles; maintained cultural and economic ties between colony and metropole even after the dissolution of empires. • South Asians to Britain • Algerians to France • Filipinos to the United States

  21. Ethnic Violence and Displacement Ethnic Violence: • Armenia • The Holocaust • Cambodia • Rwanda Displacement of people and refugee populations: • Palestinians • Darfurians

  22. Global Military Conflicts World War I and World War II were the first “total wars.” Governments used ideologies, including fascism, nationalism and communism, to mobilize all of their state’s resources, including peoples, both in the home countries and the colonies or former colonies, for the purpose of waging war. Governments also used a variety of strategies, including political speeches, art, media, and intensified forms of nationalism, to mobilize these populations.

  23. Mobilization of State's Resources • The Gurkha soldiers in India • The ANZAC troops in Australia • Military conscription

  24. Sources of Global Conflict • Imperialist expansion by European powers and Japan • Competition for resources • Ethnic conflict • Great power rivalries between Great Britain and Germany • Nationalist ideologies • The economic crisis engendered by the Great Depression

  25. Cold War • Global balance of economic and political power shifted; US and Soviet Union • Capitalism vs Communism • NATO and Warsaw Pact • Dissolution of Soviet Union ended Cold War Capitalism vs Communism Quotes Slideshow

  26. Opposition of War • Picasso in his Guernica • The anti nuclear movement during the Cold War • Thich Quang Duc by self-immolation • Gandhi • Martin Luther King

  27. Groups That Promoted Alternatives • Communist leaders such as Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong • The Non-Aligned Movement, which presented an alternative political bloc to the Cold War • The Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa • Participants in the global uprisings of 1968 (Podcast at top of site) • The Tiananmen Square protestors that promoted Democracy in China

  28. Responses that Intensified Conflict • The promotion of military dictatorship in Chile, Spain, and Uganda • The United States’ promotion of a New World Order after the Cold War • The buildup of the “military-industrial complex” and arms trading

  29. Violence Against Civilians • IRA • ETA • Al-Qaeda

  30. Influence on Popular Culture • Dada • James Bond • Socialist Realism • Video games

  31. Key Concept 6.3 New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society, and Culture

  32. Communist Governments Controlled National Economies • The Five-Year Plans • The Great Leap Forward

  33. Government Intervention in the Economy • The New Deal • The Fascist corporatist economy

  34. Governments Guiding Economic Life • Nasser’s promotion of economic development in Egypt • The encouragement of export-oriented economies in East Asia

  35. Governments Encouraging Free Market Policies • The United States starting with Ronald Reagan • Britain under Margaret Thatcher • China under Deng Xiaoping • Chile under Pinochet

  36. New International Organizations • The League of Nations • The United Nations • The International Criminal Court

  37. New Economic Institutions Sought to spread the principles and practices associated with free market economics throughout the world • The International Monetary Fund (IMF) • World Bank • World Trade Organization (WTO)

  38. Humanitarian Organizations • UNICEF • The Red Cross • Amnesty International • Doctors Without Borders • World Health Organization (WHO)

  39. Regional Trade Agreements Regional trading blocs designed to promote the movement of capital and goods across national borders • The European Union • NAFTA • ASEAN • Mercosur

  40. Multinational Corporations • Royal Dutch Shell • Coca-Cola • Sony

  41. Protest Movements Protested the inequality of environmental and economic consequences of global integration • Greenpeace • Green Belt in Kenya • Earth Day

  42. Human Rights • The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights • Women's rights • The end of the White Australia Policy

  43. New Cultural Identities/Exclusionary Reactions • Negritude • Xenophobia • Race riots • Citizenship restrictions

  44. Spirituality • New forms of spirituality • New Age Religions • Hare Krishna • Falun Gong • Application of religion to political issues • Fundamentalist movements • Liberation Theology

  45. Global Culture Sports • World Cup Soccer • The Olympics • Cricket Diffusion of music and film • Reggae • Bollywood

  46. THE END!!! CONGRATULATIONS ON SURVIVING THROUGH KEY CONCEPT 6! NOW GO EARN 5's ON THE AP WORLD EXAM!!!

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