AP World History - Unit 6 (1900 - Present) key concept questions

Alterations in the understanding of the universe.

Alterations in the understanding of the natural world.

The development of new technologies.

The development of new ideologies based off of science (for example, Social Darwinism from unit 5).

The creation of a new science-based culture that caused a slow decline in religion.

The development of mounting resistance in the new secularization of modern life in conservatives.

Alterations in the major perceptions of humanity's role in the world.

It enabled unprecedented population growth.

It altered how humans interacted with the environment.

It threatened ecological balances at local, regional, and global levels.

It enabled humans to completely maximize resources found in the environment.

It enabled humans the creation of a large movement to settle in originally impossible-to-settle environments, such as the ocean.

It has, through the mounting concerns for the environment, significantly slowed the growth of human expansion.

It has, through the mounting concerns for the environment, caused a major shift in humanity's energy sources.

They made rapid advances in science.

They continued the previous rate of discovery from the previous period.

Due to all the discoveries in human history made before their time, scientific developments slowed.

They switched to another main job while they researched on the side due to new developments in the economy.

They were assisted by the development of new technology.

They were assisted by the development of a scientific network and community that stretches the world.

They were assisted by a vast enlargement in the researcher workforce caused by a newfound interest in science.

They were assisted through payments by companies in order to write reports without any research needed, increasing the speed of advances found due to new research.

Through new modes of communication and transportation.

Through the unprecedented population growth of humans, thereby decreasing the space between humans throughout the world and enabling a communication network.

It wasn't, as the development of new technologies have distanced humans far more than ever before, especially socially.

Through a shift in language used throughout the world, thereby allowing everyone to communicate with each other more easily. This shift was caused in part by globalization.

The theory of relativity

Quantum mechanics

The Big Bang theory

Psychology

Theoretical mathematics

Computer science

Modern medicine

Archaeology

Eugenics

It produced food for the Earth's growing population as it spread chemically and genetically enhanced forms of agriculture.

It spread awareness and advocated action for a global shift towards green energy in order to reverse the effects of climate change.

It advocated for a global shift to neoliberalism as a new economic approach that should be adopted by everyone to both profit developing countries as well as corporations wanting to expand.

It spread awareness and advocated action for people to conserve the Earth's ecological systems and environments to mitigate the harmful effects of climate change.

The polio vaccine

Antibiotics

The artificial heart

Therapy

Development of healthier diets

Development of exercise routines

Anti-pollution efforts to create cleaner air

Energy technologies including the use of oil and nuclear power.

An expansion of industrial processes.

The increasing size of the workforce due to unprecedented population growth.

The Second Industrial Revolution that leaped industrialization forward into a new phase.