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Economic Gaps: Globalization(at least 4 paragraphs in total)

1. What are the historical reasons that Africans are so poor, but Africa is so rich. Note: it is the most under-populated continent in the world—so it is not overpopulation.

2. Why is America rich?

3. How did Great Britain get rich off of the Atlantic Slave Trade?

4. What are the effects from colonialism found in our modern economies? Name 2 effects.

WWII

5. How did Europe's internal conflicts affect the whole world? Name 3 effects.

6. How did dropping the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki change world history? 2 ways.

7. The soldiers from Asian and African colonies were told they were fighting for freedom--yet they returned to none. What do you think soldiers from colonized countries felt when they returned home to colonialism?