Blog #10 - Part 6b - Ch 23 - 24

I enjoyed the class although it was very challenging for me. Below are my final outlines for chapters 23 & 24.

CHAPTER 23: Independence and Development in the Global South, 1914–Present
Nelson Mandela of South Africa spent 27 years in prison for treason, sabotage, and conspiracy. In 1994, he became South Africa’s first black president
Decolonization was vastly important in the second half of the twentieth century.

+ Toward Freedom: Struggles for Independence

• The End of Empire in World History
=India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, and Israel won independence in the late 1940s
=African independence came between mid-1950s and mid-1970s
=imperial breakup wasn’t new; the novelty was mobilization of the masses around a nationalist ideology and creation of a large number of new nation-states
=fall of many empires in the twentieth century
a. Austrian and Ottoman empires collapsed in the wake of World War I
b. Russian Empire collapsed but was soon recreated as the USSR
c. German and Japanese empires ended with World War II
d. African and Asian independence movements shared with other “end of empire” stories the ideal of national self-determination
e. nonterritorial empires (e.g., where United States wielded powerful influence) came under attack
i. U.S. intrusion helped stimulate the Mexican Revolution(1910)
f. disintegration of the USSR (1991) was propelled by national self-determination (creation of 15 new states)
• Explaining African and Asian Independence

+ Comparing Freedom Struggles

• The Case of India: Ending British Rule
• The Case of South Africa: Ending Apartheid

+ Experiments with Freedom

• Experiments in Political Order: Comparing African Nations and India
• Experiments in Economic Development: Changing Priorities, Varying Outcomes
• Experiments with Culture: The Role of Islam in Turkey and Iran

CHAPTER 24: Accelerating Global Interaction Since 1945

+ Global Interaction and the Transformation of the World Economy

• Reglobalization
• Disparities and Resistance
• Globalization and an American Empire

+ The Globalization of Liberation: Comparing Feminist Movements

• Feminism in the West
• Feminism in the Global South
• International Feminism

+ Religion and Global Modernity

• Fundamentalism on a Global Scale
• Creating Islamic Societies: Resistance and Renewal in the World of Islam
• Religious Alternatives to Fundamentalism

+ The World’s Environment and the Globalization of Environmentalism

• The Global Environment Transformed
• Green and Global

Note: Info comes from The Ways of the World, A brief Global History textbook by Robert W. Strayer, website, http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/strayer1e/default.asp?