(PLEASE NO OUTSIDE SOURCES, I ATTACHED SOURCES NEEDED)
For each section, choose one of the two questions and answer it in essay format.
For each essay answer:
(1) Respond to the prompt with a sentence or two that introduces your argument and main
points;
points;
(2) For each section, use at least 4 key terms (7-8 is best!) provided, demonstrating comprehension
of them and their historical significance—underline them.
of them and their historical significance—underline them.
(3) For each section cite evidence from at least 2 readings.
(4) For each section cite evidence from at least 1 lecture.
Use in-line (in-text) citations as we did with Paper 1 and the Midterm to refer to readings and
lectures.
lectures.
(See footnotes below if you have questions.)
You will be evaluated based on your demonstration of understanding of key terms, your ability
to form a good argument that responds to the prompt and your use of evidence from readings
especially and lectures a bit that shows a deeper understanding.
to form a good argument that responds to the prompt and your use of evidence from readings
especially and lectures a bit that shows a deeper understanding.
Concentrate on a reply to each prompt that shows a deep understanding of the terms and their
significance to world history, especially as derived from the readings. Don’t just retell us main
points from lecture or define term. Instead explain how terms relate to a bigger argument
about world history. Delve into the readings and find extra evidence, explaining how it supports
or complicates your argument.
significance to world history, especially as derived from the readings. Don’t just retell us main
points from lecture or define term. Instead explain how terms relate to a bigger argument
about world history. Delve into the readings and find extra evidence, explaining how it supports
or complicates your argument.
Each of your 3 replies should run about 400 words or 2 pages. It is OK to run over, but limit
each to no more than 600 words.
each to no more than 600 words.
Section I –WW2 and a New World Order (Choose One) – 1940 – 1960 – 7.6 pts
1. (Globalization) Providing examples from at least two world regions, explain how
the alliances and agreements of World War 2 produced new international
frameworks and a new global economy. What were some major problems with
these agreements and organizations/frameworks? Explain.
the alliances and agreements of World War 2 produced new international
frameworks and a new global economy. What were some major problems with
these agreements and organizations/frameworks? Explain.
2. (Environmentalism) Providing examples from at least two world regions, explain
how the aftermath of World War 2, including development of new weapons, shaped
postwar ideas about environment and development?
how the aftermath of World War 2, including development of new weapons, shaped
postwar ideas about environment and development?
Section II – Third World & Cold War (Choose One) – 1945 – 1975 – 7.6 pts
1. (Globalization) Providing examples from at least two world regions, explain what
were the most important “global” ideas of Third World movements in political,
cultural, and military terms. Provide examples, and explain how these ideas were
expressed and experienced. Did they succeed or fail? Explain.
were the most important “global” ideas of Third World movements in political,
cultural, and military terms. Provide examples, and explain how these ideas were
expressed and experienced. Did they succeed or fail? Explain.
2. (Human Rights) Providing examples from at least two world regions, explain how
human rights struggles in the Global South were responses to global pressures and
internal/domestic issues.
human rights struggles in the Global South were responses to global pressures and
internal/domestic issues.
Section III – Late Twentieth Century – 1960 – 2000s – 4.8 pts
1. (Environment/Human Rights/Globalization) In the late 20th century, many
environmental disasters were simultaneously global events with major human rights
implications. Focus on one pollution disaster and explain how it shaped human
understandings about globalization, environmentalism and human rights. Pay
particular attention to the ways that scientists, explorers or “story-tellers” drew
attention to the environmental disaster.
environmental disasters were simultaneously global events with major human rights
implications. Focus on one pollution disaster and explain how it shaped human
understandings about globalization, environmentalism and human rights. Pay
particular attention to the ways that scientists, explorers or “story-tellers” drew
attention to the environmental disaster.
2. (Globalization/Environmentalism/Human Rights) Choose three of the following
persons and explain how their experiences, discoveries, theories or creations
highlighted particular “realities” of late 20th century life. Then, compare and contrast
these individuals and explain what if anything their legacies share in common.
persons and explain how their experiences, discoveries, theories or creations
highlighted particular “realities” of late 20th century life. Then, compare and contrast
these individuals and explain what if anything their legacies share in common.
a. Sukarno
b. Raúl Prebisch
c. Ousman Sembene
d. Ishiro Honda
e. Frantz Fanon
f. Sergei Korolyev
g. Rosalind Franklin
h. Rachel Carson
i. Dag Hammarskjöld
j. Liu Xiaobo
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Key terms from attached readings that need to be used.
LECTURE 1. HUMAN RIGHTS
R00_Prashad_Paris, R01_ Jefferson_on_Haiti_Dessalines,
R02_Rights_of_Man, R03_Where the Buffalo No Longer Roamed:
Globalization
Human Rights
Environmentalism
Jean Jacques Dessalines
Haitian Revolution
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789)
LECTURE 2. IMPERIAL NETWORKS
R4_Roberts_Introduction, R5_Roberts_WhiteMansWorld, R6_Liang_Qichao:
Gregorian Calendar
Settler colonies
Boer War
Belgian Congo
Scramble for Africa
White Man’s Burden
Rudyard Kipling
Liang Qichao
civilizing mission
LECTURE 3. PUBLIC EDUCATION
R07_Roberts_ChallengesChallengers, R08_ Bluestockings_Hiratsuka_Raicho,
R09_Ansary_Reform_Movements,
R10_BookerTWashington_AtlantaCompromise:
R10_BookerTWashington_AtlantaCompromise:
Atlanta Compromise (1895)
bluestockings
normal school
Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
Suez Canal
Sayid Ahmed Khan / Aligarh University
Sayid Jamaluddin i al Afghani
color blind
Seito Manifesto
LECTURE 4. THE GREAT WAR
R11_Hobsbawm_TotalWar,
R12_AmericanCommitteeReliefNearEast, R13_WarNursesDiary:
R12_AmericanCommitteeReliefNearEast, R13_WarNursesDiary:
Ottoman Succession
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk – March 1918
Balfour Declaration
Geneva Convention – 1925
Fourteen Points
Western Front
Armenian Genocide
LECTURE 5. THE MIDDLE EAST
R14_Steger_PolGlobalization,
R15_Ansary_WW1_Arab:
R15_Ansary_WW1_Arab:
Mohammed ibn Saud
Abdul Wahhab
Anglo-Persian Oil Company (BP)
Ataturk
Reza Pahlavi
Mandates
Westphalian System
League of Nations
Muslim Brotherhood
LECTURE 6. GLOBAL REVOLUTIONS
R16_Roberts_ARevolutionaryPeace,
R17_Guha_GandhianViewSimpleLife,
R17_Guha_GandhianViewSimpleLife,
R18_YoungIndia,
R19_Lenin_Imperialism:
R19_Lenin_Imperialism:
comintern
V.I. Lenin
M.K. Gandhi
Hind Swaraj
satyagraha
Kerensky
October Revolution
Bolshevik
LECTURE 7. COAL TO OIL, BODIES TO MACHINES
R20_Mumford_CarboniferousCapitalism.pdf,
R21_Ford_TractorPowerFarming,
R21_Ford_TractorPowerFarming,
R22_McNeil_FuelsToolsEconomics:
carboniferous capitalism
paleotechnic
Fordson
energy regime
Fordism
LECTURE 8. MASS MEDIA
R23_Habermas_PublicSphere, R24_OConnor_AmericanRadioPropagandists,
R25_Riefenstahl_TriumphoftheWill:
propaganda (agit-prop)
public sphere
psychological warfare
War of the Worlds (1938)
Triumph of the Will (1934)
the press
Leni Riefenstahl
Iva Toguri
LECTURE 9. EXTREMES
R25_Roberts_EmergingGlobalHistory, R26_Stalin_TasksofBusinessExecutives:
Guernica (Painting)
Stock Market Crash of 1929
1937 Paris Exposition
Kuomintang (KMT)
Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
May 4th movementth Movement
Li Ta-chao–Chao
Mao
Stalin
Chinese Civil War
Spanish Civil War
Stock Market Crash of 1929
1937 Paris Exposition
Kuomintang (KMT)
Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
May 4th movementth Movement
Li Ta-chao–Chao
Mao
Stalin
Chinese Civil War
Spanish Civil War
LECTURE 10. TOTAL WAR
R27_Auden_September 1, 1939, R28_Hobsbawm_TotalWarII, R29_Roverts_SecondWorldWar:
appeasement
total war
Battle of Britain
Barbarossa
lebensraum
lend-lease–lease
Holocaust
total war
Battle of Britain
Barbarossa
lebensraum
lend-lease–lease
Holocaust
LECTURE 11. THE NUCLEAR WORLD
R30_Chatterjee_et_al_Nuclear, R31_Brugge_Navajo_Uranium,
R32_MemoriesComeToUs, R33_Testimony_Toshiko_Saeki, R34_Castle Bravo:
Proliferation
Yellowcake
Castle BRAVO
Lucky Dragon #5
Ishiro Honda
Hiroshima
LECTURE 12. THE GREAT ACCELERATION
R35_McNeill_Engelke_CitiesandtheEconomy, R36_Shapiro_UtopianUrgency:
Great Leap Forward
Great Acceleration
backyard furnace
five-year plan
LECTURE 13. THE “THIRD WORLD” PROJECT
R37_Roberts_ColdWarUnrolls
Sukarno
Partition (India)
Nehru
non-alignment
Third World
1955 Afro-Asian Conference
pemuda
Manila Treaty
Berlin Airlift
August Revolution (Vietnam)
LECTURE 14. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
R38_Steger_EconDimGlobalization
United Fruit
John Foster Dulles
Jacobo Arbenz
Mohammed Mossadegh
Raúl Prebisch
dependency theory
IMF
World Bank
Bretton Woods
John Foster Dulles
Jacobo Arbenz
Mohammed Mossadegh
Raúl Prebisch
dependency theory
IMF
World Bank
Bretton Woods
LECTURE 15. DIASPORAS DIASPORAS
R39_Shankar_WrightBlackPower, R40_Nkrumah_Ghana:
R39_Shankar_WrightBlackPower, R40_Nkrumah_Ghana:
Gold Coast
Ghana
“Towards Colonial Freedom”
LECTURE 16. NATIONAL LIBERATION
PRASHAD. Cairo, PRASHAD: Algiers
Frantz Fanon
Nasser
Battle of Algiers (1954)
Berbers
LECTURE 17. COLD WAR SCIENCE
R44_Watson_NatureHeavenEarth, R45_Chatterjee_et_al_GreenRev
R46_Russell_WarNature, Earthrise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise :
Sergei Korolev
Sputnik
Apollo 8
Earthrise
Apollo 11
Rosalind Franklin
DNA
Green Revolution
DDT
Olduvai Gorge
LECTURE 18. ENVIRONMENTALISM
R47_McNeill_EnvironmentalIdeas, R48_Jenks_Minimata,
R49_Biggs_VietnamChemicalWar:
Rachel Carson
Silent Spring
Mayak complex (R47)
Minimata Bay
Agent Orange
Rio Conference (1992)
Hanford (R47)
Chisso
Operation Ranch Hand
LECTURE 19. WORLD PEACE
R53_Chatterjeeetal_Peace
R54_King_Dream,
R54_King_Dream,
R55_LiuXiaobo_NoEnemiesNoHatred
R56_Havel_NewYearSpeech:
R56_Havel_NewYearSpeech:
samizdat
“soul force”
March on Washington 1963
Andrei Sakharov
Tienanmen Square 1989
Arab Spring 2010
UN Declaration of Human Rights 1948
Martin Luther King Jrr King, Jr.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Liu Xiaobo
egao
Charter 77
“soul force”
March on Washington 1963
Andrei Sakharov
Tienanmen Square 1989
Arab Spring 2010
UN Declaration of Human Rights 1948
Martin Luther King Jrr King, Jr.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Liu Xiaobo
egao
Charter 77