THE WORLD

TODAY

Novabos, Michael Joshua F.

Pascua, Karl Junathan M.
Antonio, Chelsie Marie C.
Marcelo, Eunice A.
Tamayo, Shamra
INTRODUCTION

MICHAEL JOSHUA F.
BSE- Social Studies 3A
NOVABOS
BRIEF
BACKGROUND OF
IMPORTANT
EVENTS
 Why did the Soviet Union and the US
became rivals despite being a team during
the WW2?
 THE WORLD
EXPLORE NEW
FRONTIERS
Frontier
• Border

• “The World Explore New Frontiers” simply mean “The world explored and
entered a new era where human beings have discovered wide variety of
possibilities causing us to have a breakthrough in sciences, health sciences,
machines, technology, electric motors, on almost everything.
 A. RISE OF INTERNATIONAL
ORGANIZATION

Major characteristics of the modern era was the

founding of many global and regional organizations.
The 20th century was labelled as the “age of
international organizations” due the spread of these
institutions
 A.1 The United Nations
• In April 1945, 50 nations met at San
Francisco and signed the United
Nations Charter. The Philippines
was one of the few small countries
to become a UN founding member.

• The UN officially came into

existence on Oct. 24, 1945 and began
meetings in London.

• Philippine Diplomat Carlos P.

Romulo became the first Asian to
head the general assembly.
 The United Nations

• The UN has nearly 200 member

nations today, from the oldest state
(the Vatican) to the newest
interdependent state (South Sudan).
 UN Structure
The United Nations has six major
organs:

1. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND

THE SECURITY COUNCIL are the
two most important organ of the UN.
The General Assembly has
representatives from all members of
nations. It discusses world problems
brought to it and recommends action
by majority vote of the members. The
Security Council has five permanent
members: The United States, Russia,
China, Britain and France.
 UN Structure
• The Security Council investigates
world conflicts and decides what
action the UN should take, if any.

• The Security Council cannot force

members to agree to its decision. Any
one of the five permanent members can
veto the Council decisions. The veto
power has often paralyzed the Council.
PROFESSOR INIS L. CLAUDE
Professor with the name Inis L. Claude
noted that the veto power actually helps
the UN to survive. The veto acts a
“circuit breaker” or the fuse box, which
prevents the UN from ruin, like the
league was ruined by the walkouts of the
Big 3 (Britain, France and Germany)
WINSTON CHURCHILL
“It is better to ‘jaw-jaw’ than to ‘bang-
bang’!”
 The UN has helped bring the peace in many
unstable areas of the world after WW2. In 1947,
it proposed the division of Palestine into an
Arab and Jewish state. In 1948, it approved the
creation of the state of Israel, thus validating
the Promise Land for the Jewish people who
had been scattered since Roman times.
UN
 UN Structure
2. Another UN body, the
INTERNATIONAL COURT JUSTICE
has decided cases brought to them
concerning fisheries disputes, boundary
problems, etc. It has no power over
international disputes which are not
brought to it for judgement.

3. The INTERNATIONAL LABOR

ORGANIZATION (ILO), and the
INTERNATIONAL MARITIME
ORGANIZATION (IMO) are the UN
Offices in-charged in monitoring and
improving relevant issues on health,
education, labor and maritime affairs.
 United
Nations
DECOLONIZATION: Biggest Success of the
UN

The most important political contribution of the

UN is the end of colonialism. Decolonization, the
legal ban on colonialism, came in Dec. 1960, when
the UN General Assembly took a vote on an
important resolution tabled by small member
nations.
1960
The 1960 UN Declaration
on the Granting on
Independence to Colonial
Countries and Peoples
became a binding force in
international law.
The ex-colonies struggled with their own
development, with varying degrees of
success. A few, like South Africa,
Singapore, Malaysia, and Brazil
successfully managed the transitions.
Most others, like the Philippines,
Zimbabwe and Latin American states,
failed to provide well for their people
due to political instability and high
rates of graft and corruption. Charges of
political meddling and economic neo-
colonialism continue to be laid against
the former imperial powers by resentful
nationalist in the ex-colonies.
 A.2 EUROPEAN
UNION
The European Union (EU) is an economic
and political regional union of 27 European
member nations. The EU came from the
desire of France and Germany to prevent
any more wars between them. Hence, the
two bonded together in a coal and steel
union. Later, the economic pact was
enlarged to a customs union with six
members, the European Common Market.
 Europe's Common Market founded in major
step toward economic unity. On March 25,
1957, France, West Germany, Italy, the
Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg sign a
treaty in Rome establishing the European
Union Economic Community (EEC), also
known as the Common Market.
EU
The Common Market was one part of the
European Economic Community and
was an attempt to increase trade by
producing single standards for goods in
a tariff free area. This was somewhat
successful, but had several problems:
Agreeing how one country would assess
that another country was meeting these
single standards. Today, the EU has
grown in size, by the entry of more
states, and, in power, by taking charge of
more policy areas.
The Common Market was one part of the
European Economic Community and
was an attempt to increase trade by
producing single standards for goods in
a tariff free area. This was somewhat
successful, but had several problems:
Agreeing how one country would assess
that another country was meeting these
single standards. Today, the EU has
grown in size, by the entry of more
states, and, in power, by taking charge of
more policy areas.
B. Mass Media
and
Popularization
of Culture and
Sports
Mass media is the means of
communicating to a wide audience
by means of various technologies,
such as the newspapers, radio,
MASS
television, cable TV, movies and
the internet. The invention of MEDIA
printing led to a “knowledge
explosion” during the 15th century
Renaissance.
 During the Great Depression and WW2, the radio was the medium that brought
people closer to their government leaders. By the 1950s, newspapers, movies and
radio were overtaken by the television, a new technology that brought pictures
and sound directly into people’s homes. Then in 1990s, the World Wide Web
made text, pictures and sounds available through personal computers and hand-
held devices.
B.1. MOVIES AND TELEVISION
 • The development of Thomas Edison’s movie
camera and George Eastman’s celluloid film
made the movies a big industry in the 20th
century. On October 6, 1927 the first talking
picture (The Jazz Singer, with Al Jolson) was
shown in New York City.

Televisions
• Hollywood, California became the center of
the global movie industry.

• The digital revolution that simplified visual

and audio productions began to intrude into
the success of movies and television in the
1990s
B.2) POPULAR CULTURE
AND SPORTS FOR THE
MASSES
In the 20th century, culture was
democratized and popularized even more.
Culture became available for all classes of
society now, especially the masses. This
happened though the advances in science
and technology, the expansion of wealth and
leisure time, and the availability of cultural
innovators and entrepreneurs.
 Sports became a worldwide industry. In the
Philippines alone, the boxing fight of Manny
Pacquiao, a Filipino boxer, have been telecast
live and attracted millions of viewers, even
stopping traffic and crime in his home
country. The Olympic Games and
International soccer football championships
attract a worldwide audience of billions.
B.3 ART AND
ARCHITECTURE
• At the end of the 19th century, Paris and the
impressionist painters ruled the cultural world.
By the end of 20th century, modern art ruled the
world of culture, in any city. It was “pop art” for
the masses. Modern art became less realistic and
more symbolic, many of them seeming optical
illusions or op art, or combining painting with
three-dimensional objects like collages, or using
vivid colors in random shapes.
C) The Space Age:
Exploration of Outer
Space
In the Cold War era, space and sports became the
peaceful outlets for the rivalry between the US and the
Soviet Union. Soviet Russia launched the first space
satellite. Sputnik I successfully orbited earth’s outer space
on October 4, 1957, thereby opening the space age. Amateur
radio enthusiasts eagerly listened on radio to Sputnik’s
“beep, beep” as it went around the world.
 In April 1961, the Russians sent the first
man, Col. Yuri Gagarin, into a brief space
flight on Vostok I. Gagarin won fame as the
first person to fly in outer space. The US
followed with its first spaceship, Friendship
7, manned by Lt. Col. John H. Glenn. The
spaceship orbited around the earth on
February 20, 1962, making Lt. Col. Glenn the
first man to orbit the earth in spaceship.

a g a r in
Y u r i G
Col.
On July 20, 1969, the American space module
Apollo II reached the moon, and one of its
crew members, Neil H. Armstrong, became
the first person to set foot on extra-terrestrial
territory. As Armstrong stepped into the
moon, he declared, “One small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind.”
LOREM IPSUM
Phenomenon whereby something new
and somehow valuable is formed the
created item may be intangible such as an
idea or a physical object such as an
invention, a literary work

Phenomenon whereby something new

and somehow valuable is formed the
created item may be intangible such as an
idea or a physical object such as an
invention, a literary work
LOREM IPSUM
Phenomenon whereby something new
and somehow valuable is formed the
created item may be intangible such as an
idea or a physical object such as an
invention, a literary work

Phenomenon whereby something new

and somehow valuable is formed the
created item may be intangible such as an
idea or a physical object such as an
invention, a literary work
LOREM IPSUM
Phenomenon whereby something new
and somehow valuable is formed the
created item may be intangible such as an
idea or a physical object such as an
invention, a literary work

Phenomenon whereby something new

and somehow valuable is formed the
created item may be intangible such as an
idea or a physical object such as an
invention, a literary work
LOREM IPSUM
Phenomenon whereby something new
and somehow valuable is formed the
created item may be intangible such as an
idea or a physical object such as an
invention, a literary work

Phenomenon whereby something new

and somehow valuable is formed the
created item may be intangible such as an
idea or a physical object such as an
invention, a literary work