Challenges of Independence
Ethnic disputesDependent economies
Growing debt
Cultural dependence on west-> religious revivalism as backlash
Widespread social unrest
Military responses to restore order
Population growth
Resource depletion
Lack of middle class in some locales
Education deficit and later, brain drain.
Neo-colonialism through economic debt.
Best to get started NOW!
This assignment is due MAY 12th.
http://bneedle.edublogs.org/files/2008/04/end-of-year-themes-project.doc

DON’T PROCRASTINATE or you will look like the guy below in 40 years~!

This is a big powerpoint! Make sure when you open it you are hungry for knowledge!
http://bneedle.edublogs.org/files/2008/04/world-wars-i-ii-compilation.ppt
Strat working on the following.
These are DUE TUESDAY, APRIL 15th (A special thanks to Tyler Baker for a date clarification)
http://bneedle.edublogs.org/files/2008/03/1750-1914-comparison-and-analyses.doc
1. Compare the causes and early phases of the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and Japan.2. Compare the Haitian and French Revolutions3. Compare reaction to foreign interference in the Ottoman Empire, China, India, Southeast Asia, and Japan.4. Compare nationalism in the following pairs: China and Japan, Egypt and Italy, Pan Africanism and the Indian National Congress5. Explain forms of Western intervention in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia6. Compare the roles and conditions of elite women in Latin America with those in Western Europe before 1850.
AP WORLD HISTORY:DONT FORGET YOUR PROJECT IS DUE FRIDAY
PSYCHOLOGY: DONT FORGET YOUR TEST ON THURSDAY
The next topic is World Wars I and II, Japan 1800 – 1920, the Qing Empire, and the Ottoman Empire (1850 -1920).