Title: Disease, Population Growth,
1UNIT 6
- Disease, Population Growth, Technological
Innovations
2Unit 6
- Journals (2) 10 pts
- MANIA NOTES 10 pts
- Russian Revolution 10 pts
- Treaty of Versailles/impact 10 pts
- Great Depression/Stalin 10 pts
- Disease, technology 10 pts
- Nationalism chart 10 pts
3Warm UP
- Discuss _at_ least 3 Diseases that have impacted
World History. Discuss its impact and
consequences on World History - Bubonic Plague 12th- 14th centuries (1/3 of the
population died) - Spanish Influenza 1918
- Aids 2oth century
- Plague helped bring down Roman Empire in 5th
century CE - Small Pox ravaged Han China (60 million to 45
million)
4What factors have allowed the Earths population
rise?
5Medical Advances
- Polio vaccination ( Jonas Salk 1955),
antibiotics, improved surgical procedures,
Cancer treatments all lengthened life expectancy - New Methods of Birth Control The Pill( 1950s
1960s) - Gave women a sense of having control of their own
destinies - Sparked womens rights movement
Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin 1940s
6Medical advances-artificial Heart (1971)
7Advances in Agriculture
- Green Revolution-development of powerful
fertilizers pesticides and hybrid crops which
boosted food production - With more food population has also skyrocketed
8Criticisms of the Green Revolution
- Overuse of pesticides and fertilizers
- Tendency to plant monocrops (wheat, corn, soy)
instead of a variety of crops - Unprecedented population growth
Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring warning
against the use of DDT
9Disease
- Spanish Influenza- An estimated 30-50 million
people died - 3 of the worlds population
- Video
10HIV/Aids
- As many as 25 million people have died from AIDS
in the 21st Century - In 2007 2.8 million people died of Aids, 2
million were in Africa - Barely a single ( Sub-Saharan family remains
untouched
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12Which colonies achieved their independence
peacefully? Violently?
Non-Violence Non-Violence violence Violence
India Kenya- Jomo Kenyattta used nonviolence, Mau Mau revolt Algeria
Ghana led Kwame Nkrumah (influenced by Gandhi) Egypt-Nasser Vietnam led by Ho Chi Minh
S. Africa- Mandela becomes 1st black president Palestinians
13What were the causes of the WWI?
14What do Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong have in
common?
- Both led communist revolutions
- Both were victorious
15What impact did medical innovations such as the
polio vaccination and artificial heart have on
humans?
- They allowed humans to live longer
16Name _at_ least 2 advances in military technology
in time period 6
- Tanks(WWI)
- Poison Gas (WWI )
- Nuclear Weapons ( dropped on Japan, twice!)
17- Which of the following is not one way in which
India and Pakistan differed? - A) Pakistan was a democracy, while India was
not - B) Pakistan defined itself according to
religion and was under military leadership - C) India had a larger portion of the
industrial and educational resources - D) India was larger and was 90 percent Hindu
- E) India was a secular republic
18- After independence in 1947 the Indian
subcontinent was partitioned into different
countries based primarily on - A) natural geographic boundaries
- B) economic development
- C) political differences
- D) religious identities
- E) language groups
19- The AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa means
that - A) millions of children have been orphaned
- B) life expectancy is expected to drop from
59 to 45 years - C) the most productive members of African
society have been struck down with the disease - D) limited resources have been exhausted
trying to cope with the epidemic - E) all of the above