1900 to the Present

AP World History
Super Saturday Review

Key Concept 6.1

Science and the
Environment

Science
and the
Environment

Rapid advances in Science

New understanding of
universe and natural world
New technologies
Unprecedented population
growth

Human & environment

balance upset

Communication and Transportation

Eliminate Geographic Distance

Scientific Paradigms Transform

Understanding of the World

The Green Revolution

Medical Innovations

New Energy Technologies

Humans fundamentally change their

relationship with the Environment
Exploitation and competition over finite resources
Global Warming
Pollution
Deforestation
Desertification
Extinction

Poverty Related Diseases Persist

New Epidemics threaten Human Survival

Diseases Associated with Changing

Lifestyles & Increased Lifespans

Birth Control

Military Technologies
Increase Wartime Casualties

Military Technologies
Increase Wartime Casualties

Military
Technologies
Increase
Wartime
Casualties

Military Tactics Increase Wartime

Casualties
Tanks
Airplanes
The Atomic Bomb
Trench Warfare
Firebombing
Nanjing
Dresden
Hiroshima

Military Technologies and Tactics

Increase Wartime Casualties

Military Technologies and Tactics

Increase Wartime Casualties

Military Technologies and Tactics

Increase Wartime Casualties

Key Concept 6.2

Global Conflicts and their
Consequences

The World in 1914

End of Land-Based Empires: The Ottomans

End of Land-Based Empires: Russia

The End of Land-Based Empires: China

Decolonization

Decolonization:
Negotiated Independence

Decolonization:
Negotiated Independence
India, pg. 1086
Gold Coast (Ghana), pg 1094

Decolonization:
Independence thru Armed Struggle
Algeria
Vietnam
Angola

Decolonization:
Independence thru Armed Struggle

Decolonization:
Independence thru Armed Struggle

Anti-Imperialist Ideologies
Challenge the Imperial Order
Nationalist leaders
Mohandas Gandhi
Ho Chi Minh
Kwame Nkrumah

Anti-Imperialist Ideologies
Challenge the Imperial Order

Anti-Imperialist Ideologies
Challenge the Imperial Order

Anti-Imperialist Ideologies
Challenge the Imperial Order

Anti-Imperialist Ideologies Challenge the

Imperial Order: Pan-Africanism

Anti-Imperialist Ideologies
Challenge the Imperial Order

Anti-Imperialist Ideologies
Challenge the Imperial Order

Redrawing Old Colonial

Boundaries = Population
Resettlements

Redrawing Old Colonial Boundaries =

Population Resettlements

Redrawing Old Colonial

Boundaries = Population
Resettlements

Migration to Imperial
Metropoles
FROM:

TO:

South Asians
(India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh)

Britain
(Especially London)

Algerians

France

Filippinos

USA

Migrations maintain
cultural and economic
ties, long after political
ties are dissolved!

Conflicts lead to GENOCIDE: Armenia

Conflicts lead to GENOCIDE: Holocaust

Conflicts lead to GENOCIDE: Cambodia

Conflicts lead to GENOCIDE: Rwanda

Conflicts lead to REFUGEES

Palestine
Darfur

Total War: WWI and WWII

Sources of

th
20

Century Conflicts

Imperial Expansion: Europeans, Japan

Competition over resources
Ethnic Conflict
Rivalry between Germany and Britain
Nationalist Ideologies
Great Depression Economic Crisis

The Cold War

Cold War Proxy Wars

Latin
America

Africa

Korea

Vietnam

The End of the Cold War

Challenges to War and Conflict

Picasso, Guernica

Challenges to War and Conflict

Anti-Nuclear Movement
Self-Immolation: Thich Quang Duc

Challenges to War and Conflict

Non-Violence
Tolstoy
Gandhi
Martin Luther King

Challenges to the Status Quo

Challenges to the Status Quo

Tianamen Square

Militaries and Militarized States

Intensify Conflict
Military Dictatoriships:
Uganda
Chile
Spain

USA promotes the New

World Order
Military-Industrial
Complex
Arms Trading

He shut down parliament, suffocated

political life, banned trade unions, and made
Chile his sultanate. His government
disappeared 3,200 opponents, arrested
30,000 (torturing thousands of them) ...
Pinochets name will forever be linked to the
Desaparecidos, the Caravan of Death, and
the institutionalized torture that took place in
the Villa Grimaldi complex."

Thor Halvorssen, president of the Human

Rights Foundation, National Review,
speaking about the dictatorship of Augusto
Pinochet in Chile, 1973-1900

Terrorism Intensifies Conflict

IRA
ETA
Al-Qaeda

Global Conflicts
Impact Culture
Dada
James Bond
Socialist Realism
Video Games

Key Concept 6.3

New Conceptualizations of Global
Economy, Society and Culture

International Organizations

Economic Institutions

Humanitarian Organizations

Regional Trade Agreements

Multinational
Corporations
Challenge state authority
and autonomy

Challenges to Global Integration

The Rise of Human Rights

U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Womens Rights
End of White Australia Policy

The Rise of Human Rights

The Rise of Human Rights

Cultural Interactions
New Cultural
Identities
Interactions
among diverse
peoples

Negritude
Xenophobia

Exclusionary
Reactions

Race Riots
Citizenship
Restrictions

New Forms of Spirituality

New Age Religions

Hare Krishna
Falun Gong

New Forms of Spirituality

Fundamentalist Movements
Liberation Theology

Global Popular & Consumer Culture:

Sports

Global Popular & Consumer Culture:

Sports

Global Popular & Consumer Culture:

Sports

Global Popular &

Consumer Culture:
Film and Music