1990 to present. essential question how did the cold war end?
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1990 to PRESENT
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
• How did the Cold War end?
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
• Soviet leader, introduced political and economic reforms in his nation.
FALL OF BERLIN WALL
• Symbol of the end of the Cold War.• Soviet Union no longer exists.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
• What were some conflicts since 1990?
PERSIAN GULF WAR I
• Iraq invades Kuwait.• U.S leads mission to liberate Kuwait.
U.N. PROPOSITION 151
• Israelites and Palestinians continue to fight over control of homeland.
BOSNIAN GENOCIDE
• “Ethnic Cleansing” in Balkan Region.
9/11
• Terrorists attack World Trade Center, Pentagon and fail to hit White House.
GULF WAR II
• U.S invades Iraq, looking for WMD’s.• Saddam Hussein is executed.
PATRIOT ACT
• U.S gov. authorizes phone tapping, searches of business records to help catch terrorists.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
• What about environmental issues?
NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
• Increasing number of nations with Weapons of Mass Destruction.
• EXAMPLES: North Korea, Iran
GLOBAL WARMING
• Effects of pollution are raising temperatures.• Ice caps melting, habitats affected.
MALTHUS
• British economist, predicts that human population will soon outnumber resources.
GREEN REVOLUTION
• People organize to stop global warming.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
• Building new homes and businesses that do not do further damage to environment.
KYOTO PROTOCOL
• World Wide agreement to limit carbon emissions that cause global warming.
• U.S has refused to sign it.
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
• What about cultural issues?
DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS
• United Nations proposes all humans are entitled to “life, liberty and security”.
GENDER EQUITY
• Correcting imbalance of education, employment, family rights for women.
WORLD BANK
• Gives loans, advice and other resources to ‘developing’ nations.
OUTSOURCING
• ‘Developed’ nations place factories in nations with no labor unions, few labor laws.
INTERNET
• Computerized information and communications system.
GLOBALIZATION
• Increasing cultural and economic connections in nations throughout the world.