Global History Regents Reminders• The Regents is THIS Wednesday at 8:15 am. Everyone

should be at the high school no later than 8:00 am!

• You will be taking the test in room 066. If you receive extra time or are an ELL student, you must report to room 208.

• Bring your textbook to the final if you have not turned it in already!

• Bring Pens! You must fill in the scantron and do the two essays in pen. Remember, don’t fill in anything on the scantron until you are absolutely sure of your answer.

Multiple Choice (50 questions)

• Keep doing practice questions! Look over the castle learning assignments, the packets you got in class and during the review sessions, and websites like www.regentsprep.org and http://www.nysedregents.org/globalhistorygeography/ (links to these are available on my website).

• Use the yellow packet and the review book to study!

Thematic Essay

• Look over the Thematic Essay cheat sheet packet I distributed. Be prepared to write about about some of the topics under each theme.

DBQ

• Read the documents slowly and carefully and make sure you get the scaffolding questions right! Answer them in complete sentences.

DBQ• Remember to use specific information from

the documents to support your argument and to cite the minimum number of documents they ask for. For example:– (Document 5) or In Document 5…..

DBQ• Remember to also include outside information not

mentioned in the documents to support your argument. If you do not include any outside information, the highest grade you can get on the DBQ is a 3. For example: – Women’s Suffrage Movement in Great Britain:

• Women had been fighting for equal rights in Europe since the Enlightenment (Mary Wollstonecraft).

• During World War I, many British women worked in factories while men were away fighting to provide weapons and supplies for the war effort. They also worked on farms to provide enough food for the British population. Because women made these important contributions, they believed that they deserved the right to vote. Ultimately, after World War I they did receive this right.

DBQ

- Pro-democracy movement in China• The rise of Deng Xiaoping in the mid 1970s led to the

Four Modernizations, where China started to introduce capitalist ideas into its economy (end of collective farms, more consumer goods, people could own small businesses, more foreign trade and investment).

• As a result, Chinese people were gaining more economic rights and were actually trading with democratic countries in the west. This exposure to economic freedom and democracy caused many Chinese students to demand greater political rights.

DBQ• Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa:

– Under apartheid, black South Africans were restricted in where they could live, the schools they could go to, and the jobs they could have. They were forced to live on homelands (isolated areas away from the urban centers) or in townships (segregated slums within the cities).

– Black South Africans were 75 percent of the population, yet controlled the least productive land.

– ANC fought apartheid through acts of civil disobedience like boycotts (encouraging the world not to buy goods from South Africa until apartheid ended).

– In the late 1980s, President F.W. de Clerk finally freed Nelson Mandela and started to repeal some of the harshest laws under apartheid. In 1994, Mandela became the first black president of South Africa and ended apartheid once and for all.

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

– Middle Eastern countries with large oil fields try to regulate prices

– Trade embargo of the US in 1970s for supporting Israel in wars

Interdependence reliance of people on goods, resources and knowledge from

other parts of the world • Early Examples: Trade of goods along the Silk Road

from China, and between great civilizations like the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim Empire.

Silk Road

InterdependenceModern Examples:– Military Interdependence: Alliances during World

War I (Allies vs. Central Powers), World War II (Allies vs. Axis Powers) and the Cold War (NATO vs. Warsaw Pact).

– Economic Interdependence• European Union (EU): European nations have unified

economically. They have worked to lower tariffs and encourage free trade among their members.

• North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA): Countries in North America (U.S., Canada, Mexico) have lowered trade barriers and linked their economies.

Interdependence – Environmental Interdependence: Countries in the world work together today

to solve various environmental problems:• Ozone Layer: Air pollution has caused a hole in the ozone layer, which creates

increased exposure to radiation (results could be skin cancer, or destruction of crops).

• Deforestation: Widespread destruction of the world’s rainforests in Brazil (Amazon Basin), Costa Rica and the Congo to gain lumber, or more land for farming, building and grazing animals. We could be destroying possible cures to cancer and AIDS!

• Global Warming: The rising of the average temperature worldwide. If it continues, it will reach a point where the arctic glaciers begin to melt, causing worldwide floods. Scientists believe global warming is caused by the greenhouse effect, which is a build up of warm air in the lower atmosphere. This occurs from the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.

• Desertification: The process of fertile land being transformed into desert land. This is generally resulting from human interaction either by deforestation or by the overgrazing of farm animals. As the plant life is destroyed, winds blow the fertile soil away, thus spreading the desert. The Sahara Desert in Africa is spreading about 50 miles a year due to this process.

• Solution that demonstrates Interdependence: Kyoto Protocol (1997) – International agreement calling for a decrease in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gasses from the 1990 levels.

Green Revolution

• Technology used to increase the food supply (began in the 1960s).

• Methods include irrigation, machinery, fertilizer, pesticides, and better seeds and livestock.

• Has helped to increase food production in areas of Asia (particularly India), Latin America, and Africa.