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Change and Continuity in the World

Change and Continuity in the World. 1960s through present day. Fall of the Soviet Union. Fell in 1991 15 countries were created Collectively known as the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States). CIS. Terrorism. What is terrorism?

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Change and Continuity in the World

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  1. Change and Continuity in the World 1960s through present day

  2. Fall of the Soviet Union • Fell in 1991 • 15 countries were created • Collectively known as the CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)

  3. CIS

  4. Terrorism • What is terrorism? • Using violence to obtain political or other ideological goals.

  5. Terroristic Groups • Shining Path • Red Brigade • Hamas • PLO • Al Qaeda

  6. Shining Path • Peruvian revolutionary organization that endorsed Maoism and employed guerrilla tactics and violent terrorism. • (“Marxism-Leninism will open the shining path to revolution”)

  7. Red Brigade • Formed in 1970, the Marxist-Leninist Red Brigades sought to create a revolutionary state through armed struggle and to separate Italy from the Western Alliance (NATO).

  8. PLO and Hamas • Palestine Liberation Organization • Egypt President Nasser and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat wanted to take land back from the Israeli Jews. • Hamas exerted force after Arafat died in 2005. • Also want Israel destroyed.

  9. Al Qaeda • Wants to end U.S. influence from the Persian Gulf • Think Christian-Judaism created an alliance to end Islam. Jihad is acceptable.

  10. Rise of Women as Political Leaders • Golda Meir • Indira Gandhi • Margaret Thatcher

  11. Golda Meir • Israel’s fourth Prime Minister • World’s third woman Prime Minister • David Ben-Gurion said she was the only man in his cabinet. (Iron Lady)

  12. Indira Gandhi • India’s 3rd and 6th Prime Minister • Not related to Mohandas Gandhi (This is a common name in India)

  13. Margaret Thatcher • British Prime Minister from 1979-1990 • Only woman to be P.M. of Britain • Had longest tenure as P.M. for the last 150 years.

  14. Technology • “smaller world” • Effect on economy • Television, satellites, computers

  15. Multinational Corporations • United Nations • OPEC • World Trade Organization

  16. United Nations • Organization created to keep peace following WWII • There are currently 192 nations that are members out of 194 countries in the world.

  17. OPEC • Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries • Controls the amount of oil production in the world

  18. World Trade Organization • An organization that monitors world trade and tries to restrict barriers of trade.

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