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1189 - 1211 AP World

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deals with electron energy - atomic level of physics quantum physics:
space race of 1950s - created for delivery system for nuclear weapons + world prestige + science - numerous subsequent scientific breakthroughs - built on German program of WWII - led to higher standards of education rocketry and space exploration:
gave humans ability to clone, find cause of illnesses, root of personalities, leads to moral conflicts biotechnology, DNA, and genetics:
connects world, puts largest library in the world on your desk, flattens world, allows service/IT work to be done anywhere, changed face of workplace, increased consumer culture computer technology, Internet, WWW:
1960s theory that technology and mass media would break down political boundaries "global village" - Marshall McLuhan:
USSR focus on military budget, no new forms of agricultural, focus on heavy industry led to downturn in productivity in 1970s and 1980s stagnation in the Soviet Union:
Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human rights activist. Sakharov was an advocate of civil liberties and reforms in the Soviet Union. Andrei Sakharov:
Polish shipyard worker, protests Soviet control - founded Solidarity movement - anti-Communists + Catholics working against Communism Lech Walesa and Solidarity:
explosion of nuclear power plant in USSR - led to lasting environmental distruction Chernobyl:
due to economic stagnation, independence push for Soviet Bloc nations + work of Mikhail Gorbachev Collapse of the Soviet Union:
followed Mikhail Gorbachev - attempted to rebuild Russian Federation while dealing with break up of Soviet Bloc Boris Yeltsin:
nations with nuclear weapons - United States of America, Russia (formerly the Soviet Union), the United Kingdom, France, and the People's Republic of China. Since the formulation of the NPT, two non-signatory states of the NPT have conducted nuclear tests Nuclear club:
attempt to keep nuclear technology from spreading past original US, French, British, Russian - not so successful - see Iran, N. Korea, India, Pakistan - nations know once they get bomb - they are world players Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty:
new phase of military technology that can be delivered by individuals, not states, requires less money, heavy civilian casualties weapons of mass destruction - nuclear, bio, chem:
1980s Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait for more oil, US + coalition kick him out, but leave him in power - leads to Iraq War 12 years later Gulf War:
After psycho Mao leaves, China starts to industrialize logically, enter world stage, they have unique combo of state-controlled capitalism + pseudo communism - massive income/education disparity urban to rural Rise of China:
fanatic belief that your nation/ethnic group better than others/neighboring - usually found in developing nations frustrated by income disparity nationalist extremism:
after fall of USSR - ethnic divisions resulted in all-out Civil War - genocide on massive scale - United Nations comes in but struggles to figure out who is good guy/bad guy Yugoslav Wars (Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo):
Rwandan genocide - Belgians long ago said Tutsis have more than 10 cows, Hutus have less - Rwandans divided arbitrarily - led to centuries of frustration - eventually Hutus start slaughering Tutsis Hutu-Tutsi conflict:
Roman Catholic ethnic group that fought to gain independence in Indonesia - Suharto falls from power, they fight back - poorest nation in the world - newest nation in the world East Timor:
post-industrial movement to improve water supply, air, land pollution, animals, other small critters - save environment for our future Environmentalism:
see above - basically term given to environmental movement Green Movement:
threat that industrialization has put wholes in ozone layer which will heat up water temperature, melt glaciers, causing huge problems - end of the world -we're all going to die Global Warming:
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