WHAP - MR. DUEZ Unit 6 - The Most Recent Century, 1914-2010

CHAPTER 24 - Questions to consider Accelerating Global Interactions, Since 1945

The Global Economy 1. What was the approach to the world economy, developed in the 1970s, that favored reduced tariffs, the free movement of capital, a mobile and temporary workforce, the privatization of industry, and the curtailing of government efforts to regulate the economy? 2. What is the name given to huge global businesses that produce goods or deliver services simultaneously in many countries. 3. How did globalization impact economies in the Global North, particularly the US economy? 4. Describe the image to the right. What does it describe about the new global economy? 5. Use the maps on page 1140 to help determine the differences in life for citizens of the Global North compared to the Global South. What statements can you make that would describe the impact of economic development and the disparity between the two hemispheres. 6. How did the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank advance neo-liberal economics? 7. How did Bretton Woods lay the foundation for globalization? 8. Which of the following factors contributed to economic globalization during the twentieth century? 9. What factors in developing countries were the most successful in stimulating economic growth and industrialization? 10. In the last several decades of the twentieth century, there was a move toward dependence on the ___market to generate economic growth. 11. What three ways does Strayer cite as examples of how money achieved amazing global mobility? 12. What were the causes of the global worldwide contraction that began in 2008 and resulted in rippling effects throughout the world?

Feminism 1. Would the following quote be spoken by a woman of the Global North or Global South? “I am a free woman. I bought this piece of land through my group. I can lie on it, work it, keep goats or cows. What more do I want? My husband can not sell it. It is mine.” 2. In the West, organized feminism had lost momentum by the end of the 1920s, when most countries had achieved _______. 3. Why did African feminists resent American and European feminists’ opposition to traditional African cultural practices such as polygamy and female circumcision? 4. How did women’s liberation feminists differ from equal rights feminists? 5. ___________ governments—in the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba, for example—mounted vigorous efforts to gain the support of women and to bring them into the workforce by attacking major elements of older patriarchies. 6. Would the following quote be spoken by a woman of the Global North or Global South? “We are exploited as sex objects, breeders, domestic servants, and cheap labor. We are considered inferior beings, whose only purpose is to enhance men’s lives… Because we live so intimately with our oppressors, we have been kept from seeing our personal suffering as a political condition.” 7. Viewing mainstream feminism as “a family quarrel between White women and White men,” many women of _____ descent in the United States and Britain established their own organizations, with a focus on racism and poverty. 8. Explain the picture to the right. Who are the “Mothers of the Disappeared?” How did their struggles differ from feminist movements in the United States? 1

Global Modernity & Religious Fundamentalism 1. Use the maps on page 1143 to assist with your answer: Do you believe that the United States established an empire in the second half of the twentieth century? Explain your answer. 2. Who was the Argentine-born revolutionary who waged guerrilla war in an effort to remedy Latin America’s and Africa’s social and economic ills. 3. Who was the founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey (1881–1938); as military commander and leader of the Turkish national movement, he made Turkey into a secular state. 4. Why did Osama bin Laden and the leaders of al-Qaeda come to declare the United States as their enemy? 5. Which best characterizes the strategies pursued by Islamic fundamentalist groups for achieving their political aims? 6. Which of the following best describes the response of global fundamentalism to modernity? 7. Why did this photo (right) by Thomas Hoepker elicit such strong emotions in the United States and the world after 9/11? 8. Describe the massive increase in international migration of the world’s peoples during the era of globalization? 9. What effect did the Westernizing influences under the Shah of Iran have on the nation of Iran? 10. Since the early 1980s, Western-style Democracy has seen a remarkable resurgence in what continent? 11. In general, which class benefited the most from independence in Africa?

Environmentalism 1. What was the Kyoto Protocol and what major world power refused to participate? 2. Compare environmental movements in the Global South to the Global North. 3. ________ environmentalists were concerned more with issues of pollution and limiting growth; environmentalists in __________ were more concerned with food security and social justice. 4. Underlying the environmental changes of the twentieth century were three other factors that vastly magnified the human impact on earth’s ecological systems far beyond anything previously known. What were they? 5. In Mexico City, officials estimated in 2002 that air pollution kills ______ people every year. 6. The source of _______ emissions, the chief human contribution to global warming, was distributed quite unevenly across the planet. Although the industrialized countries have been largely responsible for those emissions during the twentieth century, India and China in particular have assumed a much greater role in this process as their industrialization boomed in the early twenty-first century. 7. The historically unequal distribution of those emissions has prompted much controversy between the countries of the Global North and the Global South about who should make the sacrifices required to address the problem of global warming. Which country contributed the most historic carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion, 1990-1999. 8. The German environmental movement was distinctive in that its activists directly entered the political arena as the ______Party, which came to have a substantial role in German national politics, particularly in regard to their opposition to nuclear energy. 9. What disagreements contributed to the failure of the United Nations Copenhagen climate conference in late 2009 to reach legally binding agreements to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions?

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