Week S-16 Reading Notes
Western Society and Culture
Changes in Woman’s Lives
What reforms did women want when they started the woman’s movement?
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The Growth of Terrorism
Northern Ireland: ___________________________________________________
Afghanistan: _______________________________________________________
What methods do terrorists use to achieve their goals? _____________________
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Science and Technology
How did governmental projects help to create a new model for scientific research?
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Religious Revival
What are two ways that the revival of religion was expressed in the 20th century?
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Trends in Art
Jackson Pollock: ____________________________________________________
Pop art: ___________________________________________________________
Andy Warhol: ______________________________________________________
Postmodernism: ____________________________________________________
What are the characteristics of pop art? _________________________________
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Popular Culture
Elvis Presley: ________________________________________________________
Beatles: ____________________________________________________________
Through what different media has American culture spread throughout the world?
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Sports, Television, Politics
How have sports become big politics? ____________________________________
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Conflict in the Middle East
The Question of Palestine
Israel:_______________________________________________________________
Why was there international support for Palestine to serve as a home for Jews?
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Nasser and Pan-Arabism
Gamal Abdel Nasser: ___________________________________________________
Pan-Arabism: _________________________________________________________
Why were France and Great Britain threatened when Nasser seized the Suez Canal?
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The Arab-Israeli Dispute
Sinai Peninsula: ________________________________________________________
West Bank: ___________________________________________________________
Anwar el-Sadat: ________________________________________________________
OPEC: ________________________________________________________________
What are the Camp David Accords? ________________________________________
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The PLO and the Intifada
Yasir Arafat: ___________________________________________________________
Intifada: ______________________________________________________________
What were the terms of the agreement reached in 1993? ______________________
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Revolution in Iran
Iran: ________________________________________________________________
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: ____________________________________________
List the reasons why the Shah’s government collapsed? _______________________
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Iraq’s Aggression
Iraq: _________________________________________________________________
Saddam Hussein: ______________________________________________________
Kuwait: ______________________________________________________________
Persian Gulf: __________________________________________________________
Describe why Iran and Iraq have been in conflict for many years? ________________
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Afghanistan and the Taliban
What was the political situation in Afghanistan in 1996? _______________________
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Society and Culture
Naguib Mahfouz: _______________________________________________________
Which Arabic writer won the Nobel Prize for literature? ________________________
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