HIS1111- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 34 pages long!)
28 Mar 2018
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Unit 1: recovery from world war ii"s global devastation 1945-1949. Pillars of new world: postwar socialism, cold war, decolonization, new international system. Unit 2: drive for postwar development and independence 1950-1980. Regional perspective: west, asia, latin america, africa, middle east. Fall of communism, wto, digital technology, cultural turbulence, global terrorism. The postwar world was built by the greatest generation" to escape the horrors of the first half of the 20th century and to create a platform for peace and prosperity. Meet the millennials: born in early 1980s to 2000, more civic-minded generation with sense of local engagement and global community, entitlement and narcissism, detached from institutions yet networked to friends, more liberal and pessimistic, unemployment, underemployment, student debt. History and forecasting: history and predictions, those who forget the past are doomed to relive it. --venerable adage, history of predictions, malthus" dismal logic, ehrlich"s population bomb.
