Globalization

Based on your understanding of the reading, take bulleted notes on the following:

• The extent to which major western powers (i.e. the U.S. and Western Europe) shaped post- Cold War global trade.
• How and why Asian economies grew in the era of globalization.
• How and why economic trading blocs (e.g. the EU and OPEC) emerged
• How globalization has affected culture, most specifically with Pan-Americanism.

Post-Colonial Legacies

Based on your understanding of the reading, take bulleted notes on the following:

• How and why Mao Zedong limited democracy in his economic and political reforms.
• How Deng Xiaoping modified Mao's policies, and its effects on democratic activism.
• Why Indira Gandhi struggled with maintaining democracy as the Indian Prime Minister.
• How and why Islamism emerged in the Middle East.
• Continued problems in post-colonial sub-Saharan Africa and the attempts to address them.
• The different political structures in Mexico and Argentina during the Cold War (e.g. single-party states vs. a democratic process.)
• The continued legacy of colonialism and imperialistic influence in Latin America (e.g. the Dependency Theory).

Decolonization in Africa

Based on your understanding of the reading and the videos, take bulleted notes on the following:

• Why the French granted independence to most of its African colonies, but was willing to resort to violence to maintain a hold on Algeria.
• Compare attitudes of Algerian independence supporters to independence seekers in other regions (e.g. India, Vietnam, etc.)
• The role of black nationalism in Ghana's independence movement.
• How the apartheid system in South Africa affected its independence process.

Decolonization in Asia and Africa

Based on your understanding of the reading and the videos, take bulleted notes on the following:

• The roots of independence in India, both from the British and Indian perspectives (e.g. elections in Britain, Muslim separatism, etc.)
• The effects of newly independent Asian and African governments and their role in the Cold War (e.g. the nonalignment movement, the Vietnam war, etc.)
• The continued role of Britain shaping middle eastern affairs (e.g. creation of Israel, Suez Crisis), and the role of Arab nationalism in the process.

Cold War's Global Effects

Based on your understanding of the reading and the videos, take bulleted notes on the following:

• How the "fall" of China to communism led to the Korean War, and what the Korean War revealed about the plausibility of the containment theory.
• What the Cuban Missile Crisis revealed about containing communism on the Western Hemisphere.

World War II Military and Society

Based on your understanding of the reading and the videos, take bulleted notes on the following:

• What accounts for Germany's rapid conquering of Western Europe?
• Why were Hitler's military tactics less successful in Russia?
• How was the U.S. involved in the war before Pearl Harbor, and how did they help turn the tide of war in 1942 and thereafter?
• Why did the U.S. resort to using the atomic bomb on Japan?
• In what way did race and ethnicity play into wartime atrocities (e.g. POWs, medical experiments, genocides, etc.)
• How did women's role in the war vary by country?

World War I Group Notes

Each student will become a "specialist" regarding the questions assigned to you.  Take bulleted notes on the questions with your name in parentheses.  Please note, you may have to look earlier in chapter 33 for some of your answers:

1. How did new military technologies change the course of war? (Alex)
2. What prompted the U.S. entry into the war? (Gabby)
3. What are the internal events taking place in Russia both before and during the war that cause them to leave the conflict early? (Daniel)
4. How were citizens other than soldiers still engaged in the war effort? (Alex)
5. To what extent was WWI a Global War? (Gabby)
6. How did the war affect various countries in terms of the casualty rate? (Daniel)
7. What were the results of the Paris Peace Conference?  Which countries arguably achieved most of their demands? (Alex)
8. How did the war’s end impact colonized nations? (Gabby)

World War I Intro

Based on your understanding of the reading and the first few videos, take bulleted notes on the following:

• How entangled alliances caused the war to extend beyond the Balkans.
• How tensions surrounding imperialism helped lead to war (especially after the Germans got involved).
• How countries outside the two opposing alliances (e.g. Bulgaria, Turkey, Japan, U.S.,) got involved in the conflict.
• How industrialization affected the course of war.

Imperialism Part I

Based on your understanding of the reading and the videos, take bulleted notes on the following:

• The various motives of imperialism, including economic, political, and cultural.
• How various European countries competed for space in Africa, and how the Berlin Conference was an attempt to solve some of the resulting problems.
• How European rule affected autonomy and politics in non-western nations.

Decline of the Ottoman Empire

Based on your understanding of the reading and the videos, take bulleted notes on the following:

• Reasons why the Ottomans lost territory
• Sources of economic decline in the Ottoman Empire
• How the rise of Muhammad Ali in Egypt challenged Ottoman political power
• Successes and failures of Ottoman reforms
• Who supports and who opposes Ottoman reforms and why.
• How Europe benefits from European decline.

China: Ming and Qing Dynasties

Based on your understanding of the reading and the videos, take bulleted notes on the following:

• CCOT: Examples of continuity AND change between period 3 (c. 600-1450 C.E.) and period 4 (c. 1450-1750 C.E.) China

Comparison: Compare how Ming and Qing approached outside governments and cultures.

Gunpowder Empires: Safavid and Mughal Empires

Based on your understanding of the reading and the videos, take bulleted notes on the following:

• Compare political and military power in the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires
• Compare degree of religious tolerance in the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires
• Compare role of women in the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires

Gunpowder Empires Part I

Based on your understanding of the reading and the videos, take bulleted notes on the following:

• The general background of peoples populating the gunpowder empires.
• The role of women in society (e.g. harem politics).
• Factors leading the rise of the gunpowder empires.
• Examples of continuity and change between the Ottoman empires and the central Asian empires from Period 3 (600-1450 C.E.).

Absolutism in Russia

Based on your understanding of the reading and the videos, take bulleted notes on the following:

• Ways in which Russian society differed from Western Europe.
• How the early Russian Czars attempted to control the nobility.  
• How Peter the Great expanded and Westernized Russia
• The extent to which Catherine the Great was influenced by Enlightenment ideas.

The Trans-Atlantic Slaver Trade

Based on your understanding of the reading and the videos, take notes on the following:

• How the Eurasian slave trade (e.g. African and Islamic) differed from trans-Atlantic slave trade.
• The conditions of the trans-Atlantic voyage for slaves
• How the slave trade effected African economies and societies.
• How a unique "African American" culture developed in the Americas.

Africa in the Colonial Era

Based on your understanding of the reading, take bulleted notes on the following:

• Examples showing the success of African societies before the rise of the slave trade.
• What caused the decline of various African societies in the early modern era.
• The early development of the slave trade in West Africa (focusing on the role of Portugal)

Rise of Western Europe, Part I

Based on your understanding of the reading, take bulleted notes on the following:

•  Martin Luther's major grievances with the Catholic Church
• How Luther's ideas spread so quickly.
• Other forms of Protestantism (Calvinism, Anglicanism)
• How the Catholic church attempted reform (The Catholic Counterreformation)
• Reactions against the Protestant reformation (witch-hunts, religious wars).

Pre-Columbian Americas

Based on your understanding of the reading and the videos, take bulleted notes on the following:

-Reasons for/path of migration to the Americas.
-Economic, political, and social (including religion) structure of Mexican societies (focus on the Aztecs).
-Examples of diversity throughout North American indigenous societies.
-Economic, political, and social (including religion) structure of the Incas.

Mongols

Based on your understanding of the reading and the videos, take bulleted notes on the following:

• Mongol military technologies and strategies
• How Mongols ruled conquered territory
• How Mongol rule affected the connections between East and West
• Compare/contrast Mongols with one other medieval invader (e.g. Vikings, Seljuk Turks, Umayyads, Abbasids, etc.)