UNIT 6

UNIT 6Disease, Population Growth, & Technological Innovations

Unit 6• Journals (2) 10 pts• MANIA NOTES 10 pts• Russian Revolution 10 pts• Treaty of Versailles/impact 10 pts• Great Depression/Stalin 10 pts• Disease, technology… 10 pts• Nationalism chart 10 pts

Warm UP• Discuss @ least 3 Diseases that have impacted World History.

Discuss its impact and consequences on World History

• Bubonic Plague 12th- 14th centuries (1/3 of the population died)

• Spanish Influenza 1918• Aids 2oth century • Plague helped bring down Roman Empire in 5th century CE

• Small Pox ravaged Han China (60 million to 45 million)

What factors have allowed the Earth’s population rise?

Medical Advances

• Polio vaccination ( Jonas Salk 1955), antibiotics, improved surgical procedures, & Cancer treatments all lengthened life expectancy

• New Methods of Birth Control “The Pill”( 1950’s & 1960s)• Gave women a sense of

having control of their own destinies

• Sparked women’s rights movement

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Alexander Fleming discovered Penicillin 1940s

Medical advances-artificial Heart (1971)

Advances in Agriculture• Green Revolution-

development of powerful fertilizers & pesticides and hybrid crops which boosted food production• With more food

population has also skyrocketed

Criticisms of the Green Revolution

• Overuse of pesticides and fertilizers• Tendency to plant

monocrops (wheat, corn, soy) instead of a variety of crops• Unprecedented

population growth Rachel Carson wrote “Silent Spring” warning against the use of DDT

Disease• Spanish Influenza- An

estimated 30-50 million people died• 3% of the worlds

population• Video

HIV/Aids

• As many as 25 million people have died from AIDS in the 21st Century• In 2007 2.8 million

people died of Aids, 2 million were in Africa• “Barely a single ( Sub-

Saharan family remains untouched”

Which colonies achieved their independence peacefully? Violently?

Non-Violence Non-Violence & violence

Violence

India Kenya- Jomo Kenyattta used nonviolence,Mau Mau revolt

Algeria

Ghana –led Kwame Nkrumah (influenced by Gandhi)

Egypt-Nasser Vietnam led by Ho Chi Minh

S. Africa- Mandela becomes 1st black president

Palestinians

What were the causes of the WWI?

• M.A.N.I.A

What do Ho Chi Minh and Mao Zedong have in common?

• Both led communist revolutions• Both were victorious

What impact did medical innovations such as the polio vaccination and artificial heart have on humans? • They allowed humans to live longer

Name @ least 2 advances in military technology in time period 6

• Tanks(WWI)• Poison Gas (WWI )• Nuclear Weapons ( dropped on Japan, twice!)

Which of the following is not one way in which India and Pakistan differed?

A) Pakistan was a democracy, while India was not B) Pakistan defined itself according to religion

and was under military leadership C) India had a larger portion of the industrial and

educational resources D) India was larger and was 90 percent Hindu E) India was a secular republic

After independence in 1947 the Indian subcontinent was partitioned into different countries based primarily on

A) natural geographic boundaries B) economic development C) political differences D) religious identities E) language groups

The AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa means that

A) millions of children have been orphaned B) life expectancy is expected to drop from 59 to 45 years C) the most productive members of African society have been

struck down with the disease D) limited resources have been exhausted trying to cope with the

epidemic E) all of the above