Info on tomorrow's TEST on chaps 22-24

Chapter 22  Pick three of these to answer in two or more sentences (#35, 36, 37):

1. What was the appeal of communism, in terms of both its promise and its achievements? To what extent did it fulfill that promise?

2. Why did the communist experiment, which was committed to equality and a humane socialism, generate such oppressive, brutal, and totalitarian regimes?

3. What is distinctive about twentieth-century communist industrialization and modernization compared to the same processes in the West a century earlier?

4. What was the global significance of the cold war?

5. "The end of communism was as revolutionary as its beginning." Do you agree with this statement?

6. In what different ways did the Soviet Union and China experience communism during the twentieth century?

Chapter 23  Pick two of these to answer in two or more sentences (#38, 39)

1. In what ways did the colonial experience and the struggle for independence shape the agenda of developing countries in the second half of the twentieth century?

2. To what extent did the experience of the former colonies and developing countries in the twentieth century parallel that of the earlier "new nations" in the Americas in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries?

3. How would you compare the historical experience of India and China in the twentieth century?

4. How has the experience of modern development in the third world differed from that of the capitalist West and the communist East?

Chapter 24  Pick two of these to answer in two or more sentences: (#40, 41)

1. To what extent did the processes discussed in this chapter (economic globalization, feminism, fundamentalism, environmentalism) represent something new in the twentieth century? In what respects did they have roots in the more distant past?

2. In what ways did the global North/South divide find expression in the twentieth century?

3. What have been the benefits and drawbacks of globalization since 1945?

4. Does the twentieth century as a whole confirm or undermine Enlightenment predictions (positive, flowering, growing, a march of progress…) about the future of humankind?

5. "The twentieth century marks the end of the era of Western dominance in world history." What evidence might support this statement? What evidence might contradict it?

ESSAY (#42-50)

Pick one of these essays to write about:  (Add your own paper if necessary…)

1.       Write an organized essay 

2.       Take a point of view
 

1, Based on material in Chapters 22 and 24, how might you define the evolving role of the United States in the history of the twentieth century?

2. To what extent do you think the various liberation movements of the twentieth century-communism, nationalism, democracy, feminism, and internationalism-have achieved their goals?

3. Explain the various perspectives on women’s liberation in the West (and the US specifically) and the Global South, and then weigh in with your opinion on the subject.