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AP World History

• Unit 6

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The Basics

• Three Key Concepts
• Science and the Environment (6.1)
• Global Conflicts and Their Consequences (6.2)
• New Conceptualizations of Global Economy,
  Society, and Culture (6.3)
• About 20 of the Total Exam

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Science and the Environment

• Science helps us
• New communications and technology ? Globalization
• Helps us to understand the world around us better
• Helps us to live longer
• New energy sources ? More productivity
• The Green Revolution

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Science and the Environment

• Science hurts us
• More competition over limited resources
• Release of greenhouse gases other pollutants ?
  Global warming
• Pollution threatens water and air
• Deforestation and desertification
• Rates of species extinction increase

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Science and the Environment

• Science causes demographic shifts
• Disease of poverty continue
• New diseases emerge
• Live longer ? More disease
• More effective birth control gives women control
  over fertility and transformed sexual practice
• Military technology and practice increased
  wartime causalties

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Continuity and Change?

• Effects of science (Positive and Negative)
• Disease shifts
• Cure some diseases, but other diseases show up
• Impact of technology on war
• After WWI?
• After WWII?

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Global Conflicts and Their Consequences

• Transition from Empires to Transregional
  political organizations
• Ottomans, Russians, and Qing collapse
• Why?
• Independence of colonies
• Negotiation v. Armed Struggle
• Sounds like a good comparison question
• What does post-independence look like?

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Global Conflicts and Their Consequences

• Ideologies of Anti-Imperialism
• Role of Nationalist leaders
• Ghandi, Ho Chi Minh, etc.
• Regional, Religious, and Ethnic movements
• What is the definition of nation?
• Are these movements a form of nationalism?
• Transnational movements
• Communism, Pan-Arabism, Pan-Slavism
• Land redistribution ? Communism/Socialism(?)

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Global Conflicts and Their Consequences

• Demographic/Social Consequences
• Redrawing of boundaries ? Population resettlement
• Migration of former colonial subjects to imperial
  metropoles maintains cultural/economic ties
• Similar to growth of ethnic enclaves in 19th
  Century
• Proliferation of ethnic conflict ? Displacement
  of peoples ? Increase in refugees

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Global Conflicts and Their Consequences

• Military Conflicts on Unprecedented Scales
• WWI WWII
• First Total Wars
• Ideology and Propaganda (Fascism, Nationalism,
  Communism)
• Use of empires resources

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Global Conflicts and Their Consequences

• Military Conflicts on Unprecedented Scales
• Causes of Conflict in sub-period I (1900-1945)
• Imperialist Expansion by European Powers Japan
• Competition for Resources
• Ethnic Conflict
• Great Power Rivalries Between Germany and Great
  Britain
• Nationalist Ideologies
• The Great Depression
• WWI and WWII merged as two acts of one really
  long play

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Global Conflicts and Their Consequences

• Military Conflicts on Unprecedented Scales
• Shifts after WWII to Superpower Conflict
• USA v. USSR
• Capitalism v. Communism
• New military alliances
• NATO v. Warsaw Pact
• Proxy Wars
• Dissolution of USSR ends the Cold War

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Global Conflicts and Their Consequences

• Opposition to Conflict
• Practice of Nonviolence
• Individuals who opposed war
• Alternatives to political, economic, and social
  orders
• Non-Alignment Movement, Anti-Apartheid Movement,
  Tiananmen Square Protestors
• Supporters of Conflict
• Conflict breeds more conflict
• Violence against civilians (AKA Terrorism)
• Influence on Popular Culture
• Everything from James Bond to COD

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Try this

• Which of the following best describes the 1936
  lithograph (entitled The Hero) by German artist
  George Grosz?
• A propaganda poster prepared by the Nazi Party
• A protest poster against the atrocities of the
  atomic bomb
• A representation of a Holocaust victim
• A post-First World War print expressing antiwar
  sentiment

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Try this

• Which of the following best describes the 1936
  lithograph (entitled The Hero) by German artist
  George Grosz?
• A propaganda poster prepared by the Nazi Party
• A protest poster against the atrocities of the
  atomic bomb
• A representation of a Holocaust victim
• A post-First World War print expressing antiwar
  sentiment

D is the correct answer
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Try this

• Which of the following best describes the 1936
  lithograph (entitled The Hero) by German artist
  George Grosz?
• A propaganda poster prepared by the Nazi Party
• A protest poster against the atrocities of the
  atomic bomb
• A representation of a Holocaust victim
• A post-First World War print expressing antiwar
  sentiment

Why?
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New Conceptualizations of Global Economy,
Society, and Culture

• Responding to Economic Challenges of 20th Century
• In Communist China USSR government controlled
  national economy
• Great Depression ? More government involvement in
  economy
• Role of government in economies of newly
  independent states
• Free market policies and economic liberalization
• Deng Xiaopings China, Gorbachevs Perestroika

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New Conceptualizations of Global Economy,
Society, and Culture

• Increasing Interdependence
• New International Organizations Promote Peace and
  Cooperation
• New economic institutions promote free market
  economics
• Humanitarian Organizations respond to crises
• Regional Trade Agreements
• Multi-national corporations challenge state
  authority
• Protests of consequences of global integration
• Environmental Consequences Economic Consequences

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Globalization

• Good Comparison Question
• Effects of Globalization on East Asia/South
  Asia/Middle East v. SE Asia/Latin America
• Think about World-Systems Theory Core/Periphery
• Good CCOT Question
• Process of globalization
• World System goes back to at least Classical
  Period
• Homogenization of Regional Cultures?
• Is there a global culture or is it one regions
  culture that becomes dominant?
• Jihad v. McWorld?
• What does it all mean?

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New Conceptualizations of Global Economy,
Society, and Culture

• New conceptualizations of society and culture
• Notion of Human Rights
• Increase interactions ? New cultural identities
  exclusionary reactions
• New forms of spirituality new emphases with old
  religions
• Political applications of religious values

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New Conceptualizations of Global Economy,
Society, and Culture

• Globalization of Popular Consumer Culture
• Sports
• Nationalist Aspirations
• Social Aspirations
• Widespread diffusion of music and film
• Why? Better technology in communications and
  transportation
• Not just American culture think Bollywood/Reggae

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Or evenBad Rap
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And a reaction to bad rap