Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Chapter 22 and Chapter 23

Chapter 22
  • Ireland first independent colony in 1922
  • urkey ruler in 1923 was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
  • Reza Shah Pahlavi took over  Iran in 1925
  • Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud  was Saudi Arabia king in 1922-32
  • Ideological war between democracy/capitalism and Communism led to fostering civil and guerrilla wars
  • In 1961Patrice Lumumba  of Congo was assassinated by Belgian and US troops
  • Decolonization and national liberation, new nation-states promised their people to achieve economic growth.
  • Diverse nation-states of the Global South lacked skilled workers and essential infrastructure, economic schemes designed to export raw materials rather than sustain growth


Chapter 23


  • Previous images of the world was maped by drawn of man
  • To identify spheres of influence, locate natural resources, plan military strategies
  • The images has no features of a map—no boundaries, no labels, no markings of any sort
  • This image stressed the overarching unity of all things living on Earth.
  • This may have helped foster a global approach to political, economic, and environmental challenges.

Chapter 22 and Chapter 23

Chapter 22
  • Ireland first independent colony in 1922
  • urkey ruler in 1923 was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
  • Reza Shah Pahlavi took over  Iran in 1925
  • Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud  was Saudi Arabia king in 1922-32
  • Ideological war between democracy/capitalism and Communism led to fostering civil and guerrilla wars
  • In 1961Patrice Lumumba  of Congo was assassinated by Belgian and US troops
  • Decolonization and national liberation, new nation-states promised their people to achieve economic growth.
  • Diverse nation-states of the Global South lacked skilled workers and essential infrastructure, economic schemes designed to export raw materials rather than sustain growth


Chapter 23


  • Previous images of the world was maped by drawn of man
  • To identify spheres of influence, locate natural resources, plan military strategies
  • The images has no features of a map—no boundaries, no labels, no markings of any sort
  • This image stressed the overarching unity of all things living on Earth.
  • This may have helped foster a global approach to political, economic, and environmental challenges.

Chapter 22 and Chapter 23

Chapter 22
  • Ireland first independent colony in 1922
  • urkey ruler in 1923 was Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
  • Reza Shah Pahlavi took over  Iran in 1925
  • Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud  was Saudi Arabia king in 1922-32
  • Ideological war between democracy/capitalism and Communism led to fostering civil and guerrilla wars
  • In 1961Patrice Lumumba  of Congo was assassinated by Belgian and US troops
  • Decolonization and national liberation, new nation-states promised their people to achieve economic growth.
  • Diverse nation-states of the Global South lacked skilled workers and essential infrastructure, economic schemes designed to export raw materials rather than sustain growth


Chapter 23


  • Previous images of the world was maped by drawn of man
  • To identify spheres of influence, locate natural resources, plan military strategies
  • The images has no features of a map—no boundaries, no labels, no markings of any sort
  • This image stressed the overarching unity of all things living on Earth.
  • This may have helped foster a global approach to political, economic, and environmental challenges.

Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Chapter 20 and 21

Chapter 20: Collapse at the Center - World War, Depression and the rebalancing of the global power 1914-1970s
  • Forces of Movement:  democrats discouraged, socialists
    unprepared, communists uncooperative, and internationalists ignored.
  • The Great Britan Periods of world wide economic hardship formed the backdrop against which Keynes's revolution took place.
  •  WW II was a war of total destruction, genocide (Holocaust), and horror for Europe and Asia.
  • That society and civilization survived and was re-created.
  • The war ended in 1945,
  • Cold War started between the Western Allies (Britain, France, USA) and Russia in Europe
  • Berlin Airlift, 1948-1949, the Berlin Wall, 1961, and several "hot" wars in Asia
  • The Korean War, 1950-1953 the Viet Nam War,
  • 1945-1954 for the French, and 1959-1975 for the Americans


Chapter 21: Revolution, Socialism and Global conflict - The rise and fall of world communism
·         In 1818-1883 Karl Marx who gave the word and concept its economic and revolutionary meaning in Communist Manifesto
·         In 1870-1924 Vladimir Lenin named his socialist party the Russian Communist
·         In March 1917 Russia revolted against the Tsar
·         On November 7th, 1917 second revolution was led by Lenin and his Bolsheviks
·         In 1918-1921 Lenin became the Communist Party leader and Soviet President, after Stalin
·         In 1921 Chinese Communist Party was founded by Mao Zedong and others
·         Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang government, the party made a 6,000 mile Long March to the mountains of northern China where they fought against the Japanese during the WW II
·         World divided into two camps in 1949 USA and its allies, and the USSR & China and their allies.
·         Europe was divided for 40 years after WW II

·         Asia divided into two camps during the Korean War