Transcript UNIT 6

UNIT 6
Disease, Population Growth, & Technological Innovations
Unit 6
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Journals (2)
MANIA NOTES
Russian Revolution
Treaty of Versailles/impact
Great Depression/Stalin
Disease, technology…
Nationalism chart
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• Discuss @ least 3 Diseases that have impacted World History.
Discuss its impact and consequences on World History
• Bubonic Plague 12th- 14th centuries (1/3 of the population
died)
• Spanish Influenza 1918
• Aids 2oth century
• Plague helped bring down Roman Empire in 5th century CE
• Small Pox ravaged Han China (60 million to 45 million)
What factors have allowed the
Earth’s population rise?
Medical Advances
• Polio vaccination ( Jonas
Salk 1955), antibiotics,
improved surgical
procedures, & Cancer
treatments all
lengthened life
expectancy
• New Methods of Birth
Control “The Pill”( 1950’s
& 1960s)
• Gave women a sense of
having control of their own
destinies
• Sparked women’s rights
movement
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Alexander Fleming discovered
Penicillin 1940s
Medical advances-artificial
Heart (1971)
Advances in Agriculture
• Green Revolutiondevelopment of
powerful fertilizers &
pesticides and hybrid
crops which boosted
food production
• With more food
population has also
skyrocketed
Criticisms of the Green Revolution
• Overuse of pesticides
and fertilizers
• Tendency to plant
monocrops (wheat,
corn, soy) instead of
a variety of crops
• Unprecedented
population growth
Rachel Carson wrote “Silent
Spring” warning against the use of
DDT
Disease
• Spanish Influenza- An
estimated 30-50
million people died
• 3% of the worlds
population
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HIV/Aids
• As many as 25 million
people have died
from AIDS in the 21st
Century
• In 2007 2.8 million
people died of Aids, 2
million were in Africa
• “Barely a single (
Sub-Saharan family
remains untouched”
Which colonies achieved their
independence peacefully? Violently?
Non-Violence
Non-Violence &
violence
Violence
India
Kenya- Jomo Kenyattta
used nonviolence,
Mau Mau revolt
Algeria
Ghana –led Kwame
Egypt-Nasser
Nkrumah (influenced by
Gandhi)
S. AfricaMandela becomes 1st
black president
Vietnam led by Ho Chi Minh
Palestinians
What were the causes of the WWI?
• M.A.N.I.A
What do Ho Chi Minh and Mao
Zedong have in common?
• Both led communist revolutions
• Both were victorious
What impact did medical innovations such as
the polio vaccination and artificial heart have
on humans?
• They allowed humans to live longer
Name @ least 2 advances in
military technology in time period 6
• Tanks(WWI)
• Poison Gas (WWI )
• Nuclear Weapons ( dropped on Japan, twice!)
Which of the following is not one way in which India
and Pakistan differed?
A) Pakistan was a democracy, while India was not
B) Pakistan defined itself according to religion and
was under military leadership
C) India had a larger portion of the industrial and
educational resources
D) India was larger and was 90 percent Hindu
E) India was a secular republic
After independence in 1947 the Indian subcontinent was
partitioned into different countries based primarily on
A) natural geographic boundaries
B) economic development
C) political differences
D) religious identities
E) language groups
The AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa means that
A) millions of children have been orphaned
B) life expectancy is expected to drop from 59 to 45 years
C) the most productive members of African society have been
struck down with the disease
D) limited resources have been exhausted trying to cope with the
epidemic
E) all of the above