Contemporary World Problems

Essential Questions:1) What are the roots of world

problems?2) What are potential solutions for these

problems?

Vocabulary

• Discrimination• Apartheid• Welfare State• Consumer Society• Women’s Liberation• Post Modernism

• Popular Culture• Pandemic• NGO• Globalization• Sub-Prime Investment

Social Movements During Cold War

• Civil Rights– Slavery and segregation– WW 2 / economic success– MLK 1964 Civil Rights Act– 1968 MLK is assassinated / Riots Social Unrest

• Legacies– End to official segregation– Major inequalities including current protests over

police violence

Women’s Liberation Movement

• World War II women entered the workforce• Baby boom birthrates in the 1950’s• Birthrates fall in 1960’s = changing roles• Equal pay act of 1963• 1973 Controversial Roe vs. Wade• Currently women earn $.78 for equal men’s job

Consumer Society

• Workers in farming / industry reduced• White collar jobs increased• Higher paid workers could now afford more

products such as…– TV– Washing machines– Stereos– machines

Post Modern Art Movements

• Dada–Used paradox

to point out art in everyday objects–Marcel

Duchamp’s 1917 “Urinal” as art

Abstract Expressionism

• Process of making art is just as important as the art itself

• Jackson Pollock revolutionized the concept of art

• #5 from 1948

Pop Art

• Both celebrates and critiques consumerism

• Breaks down the barrier between art and pop culture

• Andy Warhol is most famous example with Campbell Soup Can and Portraits of famous people

Current Issues of Africa

• Government Corruption• Poverty• Disease• Violence

Phases of African History

• Great Civilizations / Tribalism

• Slavery• Colonization• Post Colonization– People working to govern

themselves– Pan-Africanism

Apartheid in South Africa

• Definition – System of government enforced segregation from 1948-1994

• 4 racial groups identified and given different rights

• Black Africans stripped of rights– Voting– Education– Citizenship– Movement

End of Apartheid

• 1960 Activism by ANC and PAC (Groups for equal rights)

• Sharpeville Massacre (69 people killed by police during protests)

• ANC and PAC declared illegal and leaders arrested

• Nelson Mandela in prison 1962-1990 (Robben Island)

South Africa Today…

• Nelson Mandela President from 1994-1999

• Today, Black Africans have controlled government with some success

• Economically divided country

Rwandan Genocide• Background

(Before)1.2.

• During– 1. – 2.

• After– 1.– 2.

Roots of Middle Eastern Violence

• Definition of terrorism:

• Causes:• 1)• 2)• 3)

Acts of Terrorism

• Long history going back 2000 years

• 1972 attack on Israeli athletes at Munich Olympics

• Irish Republican Army• Al Qaeda and Sep. 11,

2001 attack

Origins of Hatred #1

• Palestinian / Israeli Conflict• 1947 U.N. mandate created an

Arab and Jewish state• Israel expanded territory through

successful military campaigns• PLO radicalized and started

intifada• U.S. supported Israel

#2 U.S. Involvement in Arab Countries

• U.S. CIA involved in overthrow of Iran’s leader Mohammed Mossedeq

• U.S. supports Shah and modernization / westernization of Iran

• Shah is overthrown in 1979 by Islamic Fundamentalist Ayatollah Khomeini

• Iran seizes 52 American hostages

#3 Polarization between Western Society and Islamic Fundamentalism

Textbook pg. 395-396

Islamic Fundamentalism

1)

2)

3)

Western Culture (America)

1)

2)

3)

ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq / Syria)• Goal is to form historical

caliphate (nation) under Islamic Sharia law

• Military success in the power vacuum of the Iraq War and Syrian Civil War

• Notoriously uses social media to recruit and spread propaganda

• Human rights abuses against women / prisoners