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20th Century and Beyond or The Contemporary Era
1900 – Present
• Why 1900? • The Age of Empires has passed…but what is next??
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Revolutions
New ideas about class and property, land reform
New Political Innovation Wider use of democracy Totalitarian govs – communist or fascist
(full control over society) Authoritarianism (including one-party
rule) How did this differ from 18th and 19th
century?
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A New Age of Conflict
Role of technology Military Global communications
Continued Impact of Disease Connection of Nationalism to conflict Decolonization
Former colonies developing a military Cultural clashes:
Nationalism Marxism Western consumerism Religion
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World Population
Demographic explosion: Inevitably lead to the exhaustion of resources? Battles for space? Pollution? Or will it prove to be self-correcting?
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Big Changes: Globalization
Multinational corporations
Pollution
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Continuities
Industrial control over Africa, Latin America & Southeast Asia Especially exports
Resistance to change Some combination
w/traditions McD’s vegetarian
menu in India Most countries
retained traditional approaches
US isolationism Chinese attack on
religious movement Women’s rights in
the Middle East
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Changes to Daily Life
Changes to social/cultural passivity Mao: urged peasants to forget
traditional attitude & show anger Emotional attachments to children
increased Chinese one-child policy
Consumerism McD’s had to train Russian employees
in smiling & cheerfulness
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Unit Breakdown
World War I Interwar Period
Anticolonialism New regimes in Italy, Germany & Russia Economic Depressions
World War II The Cold War 21st Century Latin America Decolonization & Developments in Africa,
Southeast Asia & the Middle East East Asia & the Pacific Rim Transition from 20th-21st Century (globalization)