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Topic 10 Conflicts, Civil Rights and Integration - Coggle Diagram
Topic 10 Conflicts, Civil Rights and Integration
CIVIL RIGHTS...
- USA: African Americans fighting for their civil rights
- Protests against discrimination and demanded effective
equality in voting, work, and services.
Martin Luther King led a pacifist tendency achieved important democratic advances.
Ku Klux Klan
An organization which primary goal is the reestablishment of white supremacy.
Ku Klux Klan activity, included bombings of Black schools and churches and violence against Black and white activists in the South.
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AND BREAKS...
Watergate case
A political espionage scandal which revealed the nature of USA politics, corruption, lack of government control and media power.
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EUROPEAN INTEGRATION
- 50s - European economic integration called the European Common Market
- Beginning: 6 countries.
21st century: 27 countries
- The European Union has been a model for similar processes throughout the world.
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ENERGY CRISIS
Rise in oil prices
The Organization of Petroleum Producing and Exporting Countries (OPEC) became one of the actors in the world economy.
- Increased the power of producer countries. especially Arabs.
- Change the world economic panorama.
- Forced technological changes for fuel savings.
- Affected the poorest countries, which had no oil and were forced to make huge sacrifices to get it.
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POLITICAL SCHISM
- '60s USSR - China: communist parties were divided between Moscow and Beijing.
- Different interpretations of Marxism and the revolutionary process
- Spaces of international influence
- Soviets and Maoists intensified propaganda.
- This contributed to the development of social studies
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FALL OF COMMUNISM
Mikhail Gorbachev & Perestroika
- Failed attempt to renew communism
- Communist Party lost power
- USSR got dissolve and left the communist system with Russia at the head.
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ASIAN GROWTH
China was unified by communism with Mao: After Mao's death, the country took a turn of openness to capitalism.
India: had great growth, it will surely be a power in the 21st century.
Japan was devastated by the war and then was occupied by the United States that allowed a rapid reconstruction of its industry.: cars production and other advanced technology items.
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