5 Steps to a 5 AP World History, 2014-2015 Edition

262 i PERIOD 6 Accelerating Global Change and Realignments (c. 1900 to the present)

Change/Continuity Chart

REGION

POLITICAL

ECONOMIC

SOCIAL

CHANGES

CONTINUITIES

East Asia

End of the Qing dynastyWorld wa rsJapanese occupationChinese communismKorean War

Great Leap ForwardElectronicsAutomobilesTe x t i l e s

Chinese one-child policyWomen working outside home (China)Baseball

DepressionFootbinding outlawedHigh-tech industries

ShintoismBuddhismConfucianismU.S. recognition of China

Southeast Asia

Vietnam WarCommunism

Rice

Buddhism

DecolonizationCommunismTo u r i s mImmigration from Asia

Buddhism

Oceania

Participation in world warsBritish Commonwealth

To u r i s mFarmingSheep-raisingIndustry

Greater rights for aborigines

Introduction of capitalism in Russia

HerdingGrazing

Central Asia

Russian RevolutionWorld wa rsCold WarGlasnostEnd of communism

NEPFive-Year PlansCollective farmingPerestroika

Allowance of some Western infl

uences

DecolonizationPartitionNuclear power

Economic diffi

culties

Ethnic confl

ict

South Asia

World warsIndependence movements

Green Revolution

Laws against caste system

MandatesCreation of IsraelArab-Israeli wars

HinduismIslamBuddhism

KEY IDEA