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The Twentieth Century: A Brief Global History, 6/e

Richard Goff, Eastern Michigan University
Janice Terry, Eastern Michigan University
Walter Moss, Eastern Michigan University
Jiu Hwa Upshur, Eastern Michigan University

The Post-Cold War Period

Interactive Outline

Science and Technology

(See The Paradox of Progress:)

1. Science and Technology - The Paradox of Progress:

a. The Internet Revolution http://dbhs.wvusd.k12.ca.us/Chem-History/Hist-of-Web.html
b. Health http://www.who.int/aboutwho/en/disease_er.htm and Disease http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/8.30/helthrpt/stories/s66.htm
c. Environmental Challenges http://worldbank.org/nipr/work_paper/RaceWP1.pdf
d. Nuclear Proliferation http://www.ceip.org/programs/npp/global.htm
e. Genetic Engineering http://www.ornl.gov/hgmis/

Economic Trends

(See Widening Gaps)

2. Economic Trends - Widening Gaps:

a. North-South Imbalance http://www.dse.de/zeitschr/de100-4.htm and http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/anarcf.htm
b. The Population Bomb http://www.oneworld.org/patp/pap_8_1/haub.htm
c. The Asian Economic Collapse http://mesharpe.com/katz.htm
d. Globalization Revisited http://www.comlink.apc.org/fic/newslett/eng/nl27/bolrob.htm and http://www.ensu.ucalgary.ca/~terry/luddite/sale.html

Social and Political Trends

3. Social and Political Trends:

a. Women at the Year 2000 http://www.un.org/Conferences/Women/PubInfo/Status/Home.htm
b. Minority Rights http://sqzm14.ust.hk/hkgay/news/manifesto.html
c. The Spread of Democracy http://faculty.washington.edu/modelski/
d. The Strength of Authoritarianism http://www.marx2mao.org//Mao/WRPC28.html#s2
e. Politics and Ethnicity http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/divers.htm

International Relations

(See One World or Many)

4. International Relations - One World or Many:

a. International Cooperation http://worldpolicy.org/walker.html
b. Nationalism http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/Elberg/Soyinka/soyinka-con0.html and Regional Identities http://www.oneworld.net/themes/topic/index.html?doc_url=topic_123_1.shtml
c. World Government? http://www.cgg.ch/foreword.htm

Cultural Trends

5. Cultural Trends:

a. Culture Shock http://daphne.palomar.edu/change/change_4.htm
b. Westernization http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/world_lectures/mazrui_sum.shtml and "Indigenization"http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/foreign/barjiha.htm
c. Cultural Homogenization http://www.ensu.ucalgary.ca/~terry/luddite/sale.html

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