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THE WORLD TODAY CHAPTER 22
INDUSTRIALIZED NATIONS AFTER THE COLD WAR
EUROPE AFTER COLD WAR • Easier • Problems • Immigration • Unemployment • Germany • East Germany • West Germany • Social/Racist Cost of Reunification -- Made in Germany • Neo-Nazis • Post-Reunification Now. This -- How Powerful is Germany
EUROPE AFTER COLD WAR • N. A. T. O. • Expansion • N. A. T. O. -Russian Council • European Economic Community • European Union (1993) CNN -- What is the EU? • Euro Now. This -- How Powerful is the Euro? • Worries • Turkey • Brexit Today Show -- What does the Brexit mean for the Rest of Europe
RUSSIA AFTER COLD WAR • Gaining Power • Market Economy • Boris Yeltsin • Unemployment • Privatized Businesses • Near-collapse 1998 • Vladimir Putin • • Watch. Mojo! -Vladimir Putin Rebuilds economy Governmental control Dmitri Medvedev 2008 Prime Minister
RUSSIA AFTER COLD WAR • Issues • Iran Now. This -- Russia and Iran vs. United States • Nuclear weapons • Georgia • Russo-Georgian War • • Ukraine/Crimea North Korea Syria U. S. Now. This -- Why are Russia and Ukraine Fighting? Now. This -- How Russia Annexed Crimea Now. This -- Russia's Role in Syria
UNITED STATES AFTER COLD WAR • War on Terror • Afghanistan • Iraq • President Obama • Economy • Clinton 1990’s • Bush 2000 -2008 • Current
ASIA AFTER COLD WAR • Pacific Rim • Japan/China • ‘Tiger’ countries • Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea • Chinese influence • Brutal conditions Four Tiger Economy Countries Tiger Cub Countries
GLOBALIZATION
GLOBALIZATION • Process by which national economies, politics, cultures, and societies become integrated with other countries around the world • Interdependent • Dependent on other countries for goods, resources, or labor • Grows following Cold War • 3 rd world/Low-income countries • Multinational Corporations • Positives • Negatives
GLOBALIZATION • Financial Interdependence • 1997 Thailand Crisis • 2008 U. S. /European Crisis • Oil • OPEC 1973 • 2008 • Developing countries loans • 1980’s • Interest rates • Hurt loaning countries Investopedia -- 2008 Financial Crash Review
MULTINATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS • United Nations Now. This -- How Does the UN Work? • Peace/Economic/Humanitarian Aid • World Bank • Developing countries Now. This -- What Does the World bank Actually Do? • International Monetary Fund • Economic Growth • Non-Governmental Agencies • EX: Red Cross Now. This -- What is the International Monetary Fund?
INTERNATIONAL TREATIES • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (1947) • Expand trade/Reduce Tariffs • World Trade Organization (1955) • Free/Smooth trade • Opposes protectionism • Group of Eight One Minute Economics -World Trade Organization Explain in One Minute • Industrialized countries’ economies • Regional Blocs • • • European Union North American Free Trade Association (NAFTA) (1994) Asia-Pacific Economic Corporation (APEC) (1989) OPEC African Union
GLOBALIZATION • Positives • Negatives
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES
Global Poverty • <$2/Day • 790 Million suffer from hunger • Trends • Rich and Poor gap • Some uneven progress • Causes • Developing countries • Civil wars, politics, corruption • Population growth
Global Poverty • Attempts to ease • • World Bank Ridding poverty Limit population growth Rich nations forgive developing debts • Mass Hunger • • High in high-poverty countries Also causes by natural disasters, war International aid has helped Famine National Geographic -- Food Shortage in America; Working Poor Family
Diseases • SARS • Bird Flu • Mad Cow • West Nile • Swine Flu • HIV/AIDS • Spread before scientists know about them Difference in Epidemic and Pandemic • Epidemic TED-Ed -- How Pandemics Spread
Mass Migrations • Reasons • Find jobs • Re-Unite with families • Refugees • Discrimination • North America • U. S. • Europe • Germany • Human Smuggling • U. N. 2006 estimate
Natural Disasters • Earthquakes • Floods • Avalanches • Droughts • Fires • Hurricanes • Tornadoes • Volcanoes • Economical issues National Geographic Videos -- 101 Videos (Tornados, Hurricanes, etc. . . (scroll through after discussion))
Human Rights TED-Ed -- What are Universal Human Rights? • Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) • Helsinki Accords (1975) • Knowledge of violations • Globalization • Spread of Democracy • U. N. , U. S. , Activists monitoring • Women • • U. N. original charter Voting Government leaders Education • • Buzz. Feed -- Best and Worst Countries to be a Woman Closer to equal Pay and work still not • African farm labor • Young women in South Asia • Monitoring • Children United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child • Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) • Poverty, disease International Labour Organization -- Ending Child • Forced labor, military • Indigenous People Labour by 2016
Environmental Changes • Pollutions • Types • • Strip Mining Chemical Pesticides Oil Spills Power Plant Gasses Nuclear Plant Pollution Seeker -- What Ever Happened to Acid Rain? Acid Rain Now. This -- Chernobyl, The World's Chernobyl Worst Nuclear Disaster Three Mile Island ABC News -- • Economic Benefit Three Mile Island Incident
Environmental Changes • Desertification • Deforestation Desertification • Definition • Locations • Africa • South America • Amazon • Natural Resources • Asia CNN Explains -- Deforestation • Affects • • Rain washing soil Erosion Flooding Extinction Time Lapse -- Deforestation of the Amazon
Environmental Changes Climate Change Explained -- Bill Nye • Global Warming • AKA ‘Climate Change’ • Greenhouse Gasses • Fossil Fuels • Critics • Natural cycle • Affects • Major Flooding • Weather Changes • Legislation • Kyoto Protocol • 192 countries • U. S. /Canada • Developing countries The Guardian -Canada Pulls Out Of Kyoto Fox News -- Bill Nye vs. Joe Bastardi on Climate Change
SECURITY IN A DANGEROUS WORLD
Nuclear Weapons • Treaties • Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty • 62; 189 • Non-Signers • India/Pakistan • Israel • International Atomic Energy Agency • Soviet Collection • Russia • U. S. help • U. S. /Russia United Nations -- IAEA
Weapons of Mass Destruction • WMD • Types Five Things You Didn't Know -Weapons of Mass Destruction • Nuclear • Biological • Chemical • Terrorists
Terrorism • Definition • Governments cooperate • Goals
Terrorism • Regions • Europe • IRA • Red Brigade • ETA • South America Now. This -- Who is the FARC? • Shining Path • FARC • Asia • India/Pakistan/Kashmir
Terrorism • Middle East • • • PLO Hamas Hezbollah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade Islamic Jihad Islamic Fundamentalists • • • 1980 s West Iran Taliban Algeria Indonesia
Terrorism • Iran/Saudi Arabia • Al Qaeda • Osama Bin Laden • Soviets • Terrorist attacks • Kenya • Tanzania • U. S. • I. S. Now. This -- What is ISIS and What Do They Want in Iraq?
September 11 Attacks • War on Terror • National Security • • Laws Intelligence Security Terrorist finances • Afghanistan War • Enduring Freedom • Taliban/Bin Laden • Iraq • WMD’s • Saddam Hussein Fox News -- 9/11 Attacks (Start at 8: 45) History Channel -- After 9/11; Fifteen Septembers Later History Channel -- After 9/11; A New Normal History Channel -- After 9/11; Looking Forward