Present+Day

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 * 1) **Triggers for Change**
 * WWI and WWII caused massive loss of economic, demographic, and political vitality
 * The collapse of EUropean imperial dominance and decolonization (due to the anti-colonial nationalism and the amassed military powers of the colonies)
 * Rise of the U.S. as the sole superpower, the European Union (EU), NATO, and the UN
 * Massive technology innovation:
 * New transportation and communication:radios, television, satellites, Internet
 * Mass destruction weaponry: nuclear bombs
 * Demographic explosion
 * Urbanization and urban poverty
 * General population increase
 * 1) **The Big Changes**
 * Political systems: Democracy, totalitarian (communism and fascism), authoritarianism (dictatorship or one-party rule)
 * Systematic efforts to improve their position in world economy
 * e.g. Japan became a major industrial power as well the Pacific Rim
 * Oil-producing states used their resource to gain power
 * Some became major export powers: China, India, Brazil, etc.
 * **Import substitution**, replacing imports with local production (neo-self reliance)
 * Nationalism empowered secular loyalty
 * Marxism and consumerism/capitalism/democracy conflicted during the Cold War
 * Religion
 * Missionary activity was successful and continuing
 * Fundamentalism
 * Changing role of women
 * **Globalization**
 * Global cultural change revolving around consumerism
 * Migrations between third-world countries and industrialized powers
 * Recurrent pollution and global warming
 * 1) **Continuity**
 * Industrialization
 * Intensifying the control of African territories
 * Parts of Latin American and SE Asia were still under the older constraints of world economy
 * E.g. rural areas in India retained older economic and social forms
 * 30% of the worlds population is connected via the internet
 * Economic inequalities worsened
 * Resistance to changes such as gender relations
 * Fundamentalism was developed to resist the secularism
 * Globalization was synergistic; changes were combined with traditions and multilateral entities adapted to the customs of their areas
 * Many societies built of patterns they established in their history
 * American desire to maintain its sovereignty absolutely uninhibited
 * Chinese conformity and order
 * Russian authoritarianism
 * 1) **Impact on Daily Life: Emotion and Behavior**
 * Anthropologists say that people to certain areas are predisposed to have certain emotional responses
 * Many societies attempted to reverse emotional passivity
 * Mao Zedong urged peasants to lash out
 * The United States offered parental help through programs and pamphlets
 * Emotional connection to children increased as birth rates drastically decreased
 * Globalization had impacts as well
 * Advertising emotions like romantic love reflected an increase of foreign items that expressed love within the Chinese economy when it opened its economy to the global stage in 1978
 * Emotions and behaviors hardly homogenized
 * 1) **Societies and Trends**
 * 2) Chapter 28: WWI and the reversal of key trends
 * 3) Chapter 29: The WW interlude -- rise of anti-colonialism, Marxist/Totalitarian reg, and the global economic depression
 * 4) Chapter 30: WWII
 * 5) Chapter 31: Cold War
 * 6) Chapter 32: Latin America
 * 7) Chapter 33: Decolonization and Africa
 * 8) Chapter 34: Asia and the Pacific Rim
 * 9) Chapter 35-36: Key trends in the transition from 20th to 21th century


 * 1) 20th Century Nationalism
 * 2) The West
 * 3) Russia and China