Disease, Population Growth,

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UNIT 6

• Disease, Population Growth, Technological
  Innovations

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Unit 6

• Journals (2) 10 pts
• MANIA NOTES 10 pts
• Russian Revolution 10 pts
• Treaty of Versailles/impact 10 pts
• Great Depression/Stalin 10 pts
• Disease, technology 10 pts
• Nationalism chart 10 pts

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Warm UP

• Discuss _at_ 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)

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What factors have allowed the Earths population
rise?
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Medical Advances

• Polio vaccination ( Jonas Salk 1955),
  antibiotics, improved surgical procedures,
  Cancer treatments all lengthened life expectancy
• New Methods of Birth Control The Pill( 1950s
  1960s)
• Gave women a sense of having control of their own
  destinies
• Sparked womens rights movement

• F

Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin 1940s
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Medical advances-artificial Heart (1971)
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Advances in Agriculture

• Green Revolution-development of powerful
  fertilizers pesticides and hybrid crops which
  boosted food production
• With more food population has also skyrocketed

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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
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Disease

• Spanish Influenza- An estimated 30-50 million
  people died
• 3 of the worlds population
• Video

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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

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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 Nkrumah (influenced by Gandhi) Egypt-Nasser Vietnam led by Ho Chi Minh
S. Africa- Mandela becomes 1st black president Palestinians
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What were the causes of the WWI?

• M.A.N.I.A

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What do Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong have in
common?

• Both led communist revolutions
• Both were victorious

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What impact did medical innovations such as the
polio vaccination and artificial heart have on
humans?

• They allowed humans to live longer

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Name _at_ least 2 advances in military technology
in time period 6

• Tanks(WWI)
• Poison Gas (WWI )
• Nuclear Weapons ( dropped on Japan, twice!)

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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