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A World Without Borders

A World Without Borders. How does this affect us ? Can We Continue to Ignore This?. Essential Questions. What events lead to the fall of Soviet Communism? What role did the ‘ hardliners’ and ‘soft-liners’ play in this event?

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A World Without Borders

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  1. A World Without Borders How does this affect us ? Can We Continue to Ignore This?

  2. Essential Questions • What events lead to the fall of Soviet Communism? • What role did the ‘hardliners’ and ‘soft-liners’ play in this event? • What role did the Truman Doctrine and Cold War consumerism play in the down fall?

  3. End of the Cold War • SOVIET LEGACIES: • Left-wing repressive regimes post-W.W.2 • Brutal interventions • Prague & Budapest • End hope of humane socialism [communism] • Can a repressive regime be humane or is it a contradiction in terms?

  4. Soviet Leadership Evolves

  5. Gorby’s Impact • SOVIET UNION • Sought economic reforms • Offset stagnation • Replaced Brezhnev Doctrine with “Sinatra Doctrine” • Focus on economy • Weak economy destabilized their political control over satellite nations

  6. Satellite Nations’ Independence • Poland > 1990 • Solidarity • Lech Waleska • Bulgaria > 1989 • Hungary > 1990 • Czechoslovakia > 1990 • Czech Republic > 1993 • Slovakia > 1993 • Rumania > 1989 • East Germany > 1989 • Reunification 1990

  7. Gorby’s Style • PERESTROIKA • Economic decentralization of command economy • Not free market economy • GLASNOST: • Open society • Opened the flood gates • Forced by accident at Chernobyl • Caused economic disintegration

  8. Soviet Collapse • GORBACHEV ousted by coup 1991 • Held him under house arrest • Told people he was ill • He got word out that he wasn’t • He supported Yeltsin • BORIS YELTSIN • Supported by Red Army • Crushed coup • Dismantled communism • Splinter of U.S.S.R. • End of Cold War

  9. "Vladimir V. Putin is not a household name," The New York Times wrote on Aug. 9, 1999, the day that an ailing and foundering President Boris N. Yeltsin appointed him the latest in a string of prime ministers. Four and a half months later, Mr. Yeltsin resigned and anointed him his successor as president. And since then Mr. Putin has in a way become the only household name in Russian politics, having consolidated control over almost every aspect of society and business and marginalized what opposition still exists. James Hill for The New York Times “The New Czar” http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/20-04-2008/104960-alaskaindep-0

  10. Police said radioactive traces were found at three London locations, underscoring the highly unusual nature of the whole episode, which began when Mr. Litvinenko first complained of feeling unwell three weeks ago. • In a day of fast-paced developments that resembled a dark political thriller, Mr. Litvinenko’s family issued what they said was his deathbed statement accusing President Vladimir V. Putin of “barbaric and ruthless” murder, a charge promptly rejected by the Russian leader. Alexander V. Litvinenko in his hospital bed in London on Nov. 20, former Russian K.G.B. officer and foe of the Kremlin... Died [Nov. 24 2006] of radiation poisoning here in what a senior official called “an unprecedented event.”

  11. Anna Politkovskaya IlyasShurayev Ivan Safronov

  12. World W/O Borders Part 2 Cross Cultural Exchanges Global Communication E.Q. Examine the components and impact of Cultural Imperialism.

  13. Global Barbie [believe it or not!] • Sara vs. Barbie • In Iran • Sara & Dara vs. Barbie & Ken • Trojan Horse • Sara & Dara = symbols against anti-cultural imperialism

  14. BARBIE IN JAPAN • Mattel reformed Barbie to fit Japanese culture

  15. Global Culture of Consumption • Focus on ‘wants’ rather than ‘needs’ • Materialistic consumer model • Cultural homogenization • McDonalds & blue jeans • & Coca-cola • Local to global • Barbie from U.S. • Rolex from Switzerland • Armani from Italy

  16. Pan-American Culture • Latin American competition for U.S. cultural domination • Evita-mania penetrated U.S. culture • Latin American societies blend foreign with local customs • Immigrant influences? • Salsa music & dance.

  17. Age of Access • PREEMINENCE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE • CRITICS VIEW MEDIA AS VEHICLE FOR CULTURAL IMPERIALISM • English hegemony of internet • China builds ‘firewall’ to control access to internet

  18. Limiting or Censoring Access • ADAPTATIONS TO TECHNOLOGY: • Dictators use it to maintain power • Mobutu SeseSeko “walks on clouds” • Vietnam & Iraq & Iran limited access for foreign servers • China works a deal with Google to “censor” the Internet

  19. Notice an Anti-American shift even in Africa

  20. Conflict – Genocide Terrorism Challenges to Status Quo

  21. Essential Questions • What can we learn from the collapse of the Soviet Union? • Examine the global impact of new patterns of migration. • Examine the new patterns of genocide. • How do population demographics define the future of European hegemony

  22. First Challenge • Fall of Soviet Bloc • Opens Russia to foreign investment • With investment comes ideological challenges

  23. Fall of a Super Power • The Velvet Revolution • Czechoslovakia • Bring down the Berlin Wall

  24. Rise of Democratic Movements • Where ever dictatorships fall • Democracy rises • Eastern Bloc nations • Result of open communications • Open communication is the greatest diffuser of ideological shift.

  25. Diffusion of Technology • Diffusion of technology • Results in diffusion of ideology • The next great challenge to dictatorships • CHINA

  26. Tiananmen Square • China's leaders called the protests a "rebellion"

  27. New Mass Migration • Movement from 3rd World & 2nd World into 1st World • Guest Workers • Europe & Arab oil producing nations • Legal & illegal aliens • Europe • U.S. • Canada

  28. Population Demographics BIRTH RATE 1ST World 2nd World 3rd World

  29. Population Stats • Increased 500M in 1650- • 2.5B 1950 • Asia & Africa postwar population explosions • 5.5 B 1994 • U.N. estimate: 700 B = 2150

  30. www.uwec.edu/geography/Ivogeler/w111/3world.htm

  31. Genocide • Rwanda • Over the course of only 100 days, a stupefying 1,000,000 people were slaughtered. Rwanda: genocide. [Photograph]. Retrieved May  4,  2008, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-97258

  32. Genocide • Kosovohttp://www.raritanval.edu/holocaust/index.html • No consensus on this as a genocide

  33. Darfur • Darfur, where over 200,000 innocent civilians have been killed in the past four years and at least another 2.5 million have been driven from their homes.

  34. Global Terrorism

  35. Global Terrorism • 241 Marines killed in Beirut Lebanon • Hezbollah

  36. Global Terrorism • 1993- bombing World Trade Center • Truck Bomb 6 killed 1K injured • 1998 – U.S. Embassies [Kenya & Tanzania • 200 killed 5K injured • 2000- Suicide attack U.S.S. Cole • Yemen • 17 killed 39 injured

  37. Global Terrorism • 9/11 – World Trade Center • 2,602 [24 missing] • Pentagon • 59 passengers 125 in building • Flight 93 • 40 killed

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