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WORLD STUDIES

UNIT 8: THE MODERN WORLD

After the fall of the Soviet Union, international migration and technological improvements resulted in an increasingly global economy.  While globalization certainly has reaped benefits, it has also created challenges such as terrorism. Students will analyze these challenges and consider possible solutions.

 

In this unit students will assess the progress of human and civil rights around the world. Students will also evaluate the challenges faced by developing nations in their efforts to compete in a global economy.     

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

  • How strictly do countries adhere to their political ideologies?

  • What is the price of modernization?

  • What fosters extremism?

  • To what extent has globalization fostered a global community?

Essential Questions

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Crash Course: Globalization I
  • What is globalization?

  • How have technology and government policy made the world more economically independent?

  • How has globalization changed us culturally?

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Crash Course: Globalization II
  • Is globalization good?

  • What is the price of modernization?

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New Cold War?
  • With tension high between the United States and Russia, are we experiencing a new Cold War or another 1914?

Why is far-right extremism on the rise?

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