TIME PERIOD #4:
CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
(1900 C.E. - PRESENT)
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INFORMATION BELOW ORGANIZED FOR PREVIOUS COURSE FRAMEWORK
CONTEMPORARY
TIME PERIOD 4:
ACCELERATING GLOBAL CHANGE AND REALIGNMENTS
(c. 1900 to the Present)
At the beginning of the twentieth century, a European-dominated global political order existed, which also included the United States, Russia, and Japan. Over the course of the century, peoples and states around the world challenged this order in ways that sought to redistribute power within the existing order and to restructure empires, while those peoples and states in power attempted to maintain the status quo. Other peoples and states sought to overturn the political order itself. These challenges to, and the attempts to maintain, the political order manifested themselves in an unprecedented level of conflict with high human casualties. In the context of these conflicts, many regimes in both older and newer states struggled with maintaining political stability and were challenged by internal and external factors, including ethnic and religious conflicts, secessionist movements, territorial partitions, economic dependency, and the legacies of colonialism. Rapid advances in science altered the understanding of the universe and the natural world and led to the development of new technologies. These changes enabled unprecedented population growth, which altered how humans interacted with the environment and threatened delicate ecological balances at local, regional, and global levels. This era witnessed a great deal of warfare and the collapse of the global economy in the 1930s. In response to these challenges, the role of state in the domestic economy fluctuated, and new institutions of global governance emerged and continued to develop throughout the century. Scientific breakthroughs, new technologies, increasing levels of integration, changing relationships between humans and the environment, and the frequency of political conflict all contributed to global developments in which people crafted new understandings of society, culture, and historical interpretations. These new understandings often manifested themselves in, and were reinforced by, new forms of cultural production. Institutions of global governance both shaped and adapted to these social conditions.
Ways of the World - Textbook Reading Assignments
Time Period #6 Big Picture Review
Time Period #6 Introduction - What is the World Today?
Identify the characteristics of the contemporary world.
DBQ: Postcolonialism
Evaluate the extent to which the politics of newly formed postcolonial states after the end of empire changed between 1945 and 1975.
6.2 GLOBAL CONFLICTS
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Ch. 31A: The Early Cold War (p.752-764) - Recap and SAQ PracticeCold War Decision Making Scenarios
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Cold War Decision Making Handout | |
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Cold War Decision Making Scenarios | |
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Cold War Madness
Evaluate the significance of major events and concepts related to the Cold War as the worked to increase or decrease global tensions.
What was the most influential event or program of the Cold War?
Click here 4th Period for Slides
Click for 4th Period Bracket Poll
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Click for 5th Period Bracket Poll
Click here 6th Period for Slides
Click for 6th Period Bracket Poll
Cold War March Madness Bracket | |
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6.1 SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Rapid advances in science altered the understanding of the universe and the natural world and led to the development of new technologies. These changes enabled unprecedented population growth, which altered how humans interacted with the environment and disrupted ecological balances at local, regional, and global levels.
Globalization
Post-Cold War World Lecture
Evaluate the positive and negative effects of globalization in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Political Cartoons on Globalization
What are the economic forces that bring about globalization?
Ch. 22 Recap
The End of Empire, Decolonization
Decolonization
Evaluate the extent to which the politics of newly formed postcolonial states after the end of the empire changed between 1945 and 1975.
Decolonization Reading | |
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