1914+to+the+Present

1) Notes On Era
__//**Triggers for Change**//__
 * **MI: With WWI, worldwide economic depression, and then WWII, the world of European dominance began to wane. European influence became increasingly resisted, with pop. growth, massive technological innovation, and decolonization**.
 * As the world moved forward the way of govern colonies and foreign areas by large powers began to shrink more and more as we move towards the present. The first and second world wars cause turmoil in Europe. The wars lead to a drastic loss in money, demographic, and political stability. With the European nations imperial systems beginning to collapse their colonies either revolt against them or their freedom is given to them. New powers such as the United states replace these European nations as a world power, and with that imperial days begin to end. As the age continues on and new technologies are introduced and developed, people become more linked and jobs, and processes can become easier. Technology that benefits a larger population causes the demographic to spurt up and increase heavily, allowing for many new individuals to live and sustain life in an area. Major technologies that begin to link the world such as the internet drastically shrink the world to a point that it had previously never been at.


 * __//The Big Changes//__**
 * **MI: Revolutions in some countries and decolonization in many created the necessity for political innovation. The 20th century saw a wider use of some sort of democracy; totalitarian gov'ts-- communist or facist-- seeking as full control over society as possibly; or new forms of authoritarianism, including one-party rule.**
 * Many countries began to become independent as they rebelled against their owners to rid themselves from imperialist. New political independence in some places led to new strict forms of government to be used an enforced by the people, such as Nazi Germany. Also nations began to try to catch up on industrilization such as Japan and the Pacific rim who were trying to considerably produce much more. Other nations such as China began to develop modern export sectors. Cultural changes began to occur in other areas as forces such as nationalism and Marxism spread to the people. Religion still was a heavily force in Africa as converts were still being sought. New changes on the view of women also began to change. For the first time women were gaining rights equal to those of men in the ye for the first time. Still men were given some benefits over women in the job world. Globalization began to continue with nations participating continually in global issues such as the United States moving away from its isolationic policy. Migrants from Europe, Asia, and other parts of the world begin to travel and go to the United States i hope for a better life/ Human activity begins to lead to new issues such as environmental issues due to tearing down rain forests and leading to hazardous conditions such as acid rain, smog, and global warming.

__//**Continuity**//__
 * **MI: In the late 20th century, many believed that change was accelerating more rapidly that at any previous point in world history. With such changes, were also continuities, which included low-cost production, resistance to change, and in response to change, many societies retained larger orientations derived from their traditions.**
 * Although many nations were pursuing industrilization, many rural areas in some nations still tried to keep to the old economic ways of producing raw materials to sell to other areas. As technology grew, their still was a minority in which that could not obtain it as with the internet only a small amount of people had it in 2005. While growing ideas of gender equality grew, some areas in Africa and the Middle East still resisted this change and kept males more educated than the females in the state. While outside resistance tried to enter the society, many cultures soon began to combine these new ideas with their old ones, which had occurred in the past as well in some areas. And still many societies still resisted change and kept to their own traditions.

__//**Impact on Daily Life**//__
 * **MI: Key developments in the 20th and 21st centuries impacted people's emotions and behavior. Many emotional and behavioral formulations reflect individual personality or particular cultures, and some emotional and behavioral standards continued to characterize specific civilizations in the 20th century. Three kinds of changes reflected this; the destruction of social inequality, demographic changes, and spread of global consumerism.**
 * Emotions and behaviors begin to become a big part of daily life. Previously emotions and behaviors went with where someone was from, but now emotions were being found all over the place. People were seen as more expressive and the way someone acted reflected where they were from. Families begin to develop more emotion with each other as birth rates were to decline and more attachments occur. Corporations such as Mcdonald's begin to teach its workers to be friendly happy and always smile to help sell their goods. Emotions are now becoming a good thing to show in society.

__//**Societies and Trends**//__
 * **MI: The period is one filled with war and development as the world begins to shrink and people begin to become their own people and not controlled by someone else**
 * The period is comprised of war, transitional periods, postware development, and establishment of socieities. The reocuuring tred show how an abandoment on colonialism ad freedom from imperialist leads to new governments and politics that begin to cause an age of war and fighting in the world as it tries to construct itself in a new area.

**2)Analyze the three maps on page 637. What can they tell us about this stage of world history - explain in detail**
we see that most of the world is still being dominated by imperialistic powers. Specifically the British empire is the one that controls the most of the world at this point. They have a settlement in every single continent beggining in 1914. Other nations such as France are also active in imperialism still, as they control most of Africa. As we look at the second map, we see that the imperialistic powers have lost all their territories. It is a map of the modern world and now we have our multiple countries and their are no "colonies" so to speak that a nation has. If we look at our third map it shows how coroporations are beggining to change from being centered in one location to beggining to try to take on other nations in the world.
 * By observing the changes from the political map of 1914 to the present we can see the decline that occurs during the period. When the period starts off