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A History of the Modern World, 9/e

R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Empires into Nations: The Developing World

Learning Objectives

Chapter 23 teaches students about:

The origins of the term "Third World," and developing countries' positions of nonalignment in the Cold War.

The problems that plagued the world's new states, which ranged from the difficulties in establishing democracy to ethnic and religious tensions to the persistence of poverty.

The process by which Asian countries gained independence and their experiences with democratic and military rule in the following decades.

African experiments with African socialism, military dictatorship, and political instability in the years following independence.

The persistence of Africa's problems and the multiple theories used to explain those problems.

The origins of Israel and their tense relations with the Middle East.

The influence fundamentalist Islam in the Middle East.

Latin America's difficulties with the legacy of colonialism, continuing imperialism, and economic crises.

The promise of development, as well as its shortcomings.

Globalization and the debate over globalization's impact on developing countries.

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