Contemporary World Problems
Essential Questions:1) What are the roots of world
problems?2) What are potential solutions for these
problems?
Vocabulary
• Discrimination• Apartheid• Welfare State• Consumer Society• Women’s Liberation• Post Modernism
• Popular Culture• Pandemic• NGO• Globalization• Sub-Prime Investment
Social Movements During Cold War
• Civil Rights– Slavery and segregation– WW 2 / economic success– MLK 1964 Civil Rights Act– 1968 MLK is assassinated / Riots Social Unrest
• Legacies– End to official segregation– Major inequalities including current protests over
police violence
Women’s Liberation Movement
• World War II women entered the workforce• Baby boom birthrates in the 1950’s• Birthrates fall in 1960’s = changing roles• Equal pay act of 1963• 1973 Controversial Roe vs. Wade• Currently women earn $.78 for equal men’s job
Consumer Society
• Workers in farming / industry reduced• White collar jobs increased• Higher paid workers could now afford more
products such as…– TV– Washing machines– Stereos– machines
Post Modern Art Movements
• Dada–Used paradox
to point out art in everyday objects–Marcel
Duchamp’s 1917 “Urinal” as art
Abstract Expressionism
• Process of making art is just as important as the art itself
• Jackson Pollock revolutionized the concept of art
• #5 from 1948
Pop Art
• Both celebrates and critiques consumerism
• Breaks down the barrier between art and pop culture
• Andy Warhol is most famous example with Campbell Soup Can and Portraits of famous people
Current Issues of Africa
• Government Corruption• Poverty• Disease• Violence
Phases of African History
• Great Civilizations / Tribalism
• Slavery• Colonization• Post Colonization– People working to govern
themselves– Pan-Africanism
Apartheid in South Africa
• Definition – System of government enforced segregation from 1948-1994
• 4 racial groups identified and given different rights
• Black Africans stripped of rights– Voting– Education– Citizenship– Movement
End of Apartheid
• 1960 Activism by ANC and PAC (Groups for equal rights)
• Sharpeville Massacre (69 people killed by police during protests)
• ANC and PAC declared illegal and leaders arrested
• Nelson Mandela in prison 1962-1990 (Robben Island)
South Africa Today…
• Nelson Mandela President from 1994-1999
• Today, Black Africans have controlled government with some success
• Economically divided country
Rwandan Genocide• Background
(Before)1.2.
• During– 1. – 2.
• After– 1.– 2.
Roots of Middle Eastern Violence
• Definition of terrorism:
• Causes:• 1)• 2)• 3)
Acts of Terrorism
• Long history going back 2000 years
• 1972 attack on Israeli athletes at Munich Olympics
• Irish Republican Army• Al Qaeda and Sep. 11,
2001 attack
Origins of Hatred #1
• Palestinian / Israeli Conflict• 1947 U.N. mandate created an
Arab and Jewish state• Israel expanded territory through
successful military campaigns• PLO radicalized and started
intifada• U.S. supported Israel
#2 U.S. Involvement in Arab Countries
• U.S. CIA involved in overthrow of Iran’s leader Mohammed Mossedeq
• U.S. supports Shah and modernization / westernization of Iran
• Shah is overthrown in 1979 by Islamic Fundamentalist Ayatollah Khomeini
• Iran seizes 52 American hostages
#3 Polarization between Western Society and Islamic Fundamentalism
Textbook pg. 395-396
Islamic Fundamentalism
1)
2)
3)
Western Culture (America)
1)
2)
3)
ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq / Syria)• Goal is to form historical
caliphate (nation) under Islamic Sharia law
• Military success in the power vacuum of the Iraq War and Syrian Civil War
• Notoriously uses social media to recruit and spread propaganda
• Human rights abuses against women / prisoners
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