AP world unit 9

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9.1 Advances in Technology and Exchange After 1900

• Explain how the development of new technologies changed the world from 1900 to present.

• New Communication

  • Radio

  • Cell

  • Internet

• New Transportation

  • Air travel

  • Shipping Containers

• Energy Tech

  • Petroleum

  • Nuclear

• Family Planning

  • Birth Control

• Medical Innovations

  • Vaccines

  • Antibiotics

9.2 Technological Advances and Limitations After 1900: Disease

• Explain how environmental factors affected human populations over time.

• Diseases associated with poverty

  • Malaria

  • TB

  • Cholera

• Emergent Epidemic Diseases

  • 1918 Influenza

  • Ebola

  • HIV/AIDS

• Diseases associated with increased age

  • Heart disease

  • Alzheimer’s disease

9.3 Technological Advances: Debates About the Environment After 1900

• Explain the causes and effects of environmental changes in the period from 1900 to present.

• Human Activity

  • Deforestation

  • Air quality

  • Fresh Water Supply

  • Green Revolution

• Greenhouse Gasses

  • Debates about climate change

9.4 Economics in the Global Age

• Explain the continuities and changes in the global economy from 1900 to present.

• Governments encouraged free market

  • Ronald Reagan

  • Margaret Thatcher

  • Deng Xiaoping

  • Augusto Pinochet

• Growth of knowledge economies

  • Finland

  • Japan

  • U.S.

• Industrial Economies

  • Vietnam

  • Bangladesh

  • Mexico

  • Honduras

• Spread of free market principles through:

  • Economic Institutions

    • WTO

    • NAFTA

    • ASEAN

  • Multinational Corps

    • Nestle

    • Nissan

    • Mahindra & Mahindra

9.5 Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900

• Explain how social categories, roles, and practices have been maintained and challenged over time

• Challenges to race, class, gender, and religion

  • The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights, especially as it sought to protect the rights of children, women, and refugees  

  • Global feminist movements  

  • Negritude movement  

  • Liberation theology in Latin America

• Increased access to education and professional roles

  • The right to vote and/ or to hold public office granted to women in the United States (1920), Brazil (1932), Turkey (1934), Japan (1945), India (1947), and Morocco (1963) 

  • The rising rate of female literacy and the increasing numbers of women in higher education, in most parts of the world  

  • The U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1965 

  • The end of apartheid  

  • Caste reservation in India

• Protest movements against environmental inequality

  • Greenpeace  

  • Professor Wangari Maathai’s Green Belt Movement in Kenya

  • Paris Peace Treaty

• Protest movements against economic inequality

  • World Fair Trade Organization

9.6 Globalized Culture After 1900

• Explain how and why globalization changed culture over time.

• Political and social changes lead to pop culture and consumer culture to become more global

• Global Culture

  • Music: Reggae  

  • Movies: Bollywood  

  • Social media: Facebook, Twitter  

  • Television: BBC  

  • Sports: World Cup soccer, the Olympics

• Global Consumerism

  • Online commerce: Alibaba, eBay 

  • Global brands: Toyota, Coca-Cola

9.7 Resistance to Globalization After 1900

• Explain the various responses to increasing globalization from 1900 to present.

• Responses to economic globalization

  • Anti-IMF and anti-World Bank activism 

  • Advent of locally developed social media (Weibo in China)

9.8 Institutions Developing in a Globalized World

• Explain how and why globalization changed international interactions among states.

• International organizations created to maintain peace and facilitate cooperation

  • United Nations

9.9 Continuity and Change in a Globalized World

• Explain the extent to which science and technology brought change in the period from 1900 to the present.