AP World Era 6 Key Concept 6.3

Question 1

States responded in a variety of ways to the what of the 20th century?
Examples?

Answer 1

economic challenges
Communist states controlled their national economies. (The Great Leap Forward)
Onset of Great Depression, gov’ts began to take a more active role in economic life. (The New Deal)
After WWII, governments often took a strong role in guiding economic life. (Nasser’s promotion of economic development in Egypt)
At the end of the 20th c, many governments encouraged free market economic policies. (The US beginning with Ronald Reagan)

Question 2

What, what, and what became increasingly interdependent, a process facilitated by the growth of institutions of global governance?
Examples?

Answer 2

States, communities, and individuals
New International organizations (The United Nations)
New Economic Institutions (World Trade Organization (WTO))
Humanitarian Organizations (The Red Cross)
Regional Trade Agreements (The European Union)
Multinational corporations (Coca-Cola)
Movements throughout the world protested the inequality of environmental and economic consequences of global integration. (Green Belt in Kenya)

Question 3

People conceptualize what and what in new ways; some challenged old assumptions about what, what, what, and what, often using new what to spread what?
Examples?

Answer 3

society and culture; race, class, gender and religion; technologies; reconfigured traditions
Human Rights (The end of White Australia Policy)
New cultural identities (Negritude) and exclusionary reactions (Race Riots)
New forms of spirituality (New Age Religions) and choose to emphasize particular aspects of practice within existing faiths and apply them to political issues. (Fundamentalist movements)

Question 4

What and what became global?

Examples?

Answer 4

Popular and consumer culture
Sports (World Cup Soccer)
Diffusion of music and film (Bollywood)