Download Period 7 Semester Seminars

Period 7 Semester Seminars
Unit 6: Industrial Revolution & Urbanization 1760’s-1900 (Chapters 22 & 24)
Student
Seminar Question
2005 – Analyze the economic, technological, and institutional factors responsible for
Alex
Western Europe’s domination of world trade from 1650 to 1800.
Giron
2008 – European women’s lives changed in the course of the nineteenth century politically,
Kendall
economically, and socially. Identify and explain the reasons for those changes.
Whitney
2010 – Analyze the ways in which the theories of both Darwin and Freud challenged
David
traditional European ways of thinking about religion, morality, and human behavior in the
Waisman
period circa 1850-1950.
2011 - Analyze the impact of science and technology on European society in the period
Noah
Steinbuch from 1800 to 1900.
Samantha 2012 – Analyze the ways in which the rise of the middle class affected family structure and
gender roles in Europe in the 1800s.
Shroll
Unit 7: Nationalism & Imperialism 19th century (Chapters 25 & 26)
Student
Seminar Question
1974 -The Western penetration of China and Japan evoked a different response in each
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country. Discuss the reasons why Japan enthusiastically adopted Western science and
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technology in order to modernize itself, whereas China resisted falling under Western
influence.
1984 - Describe the steps taken between 1832 and 1918 to extend suffrage in England.
Jeremy
What groups and movements contributed to the extension of the vote?
Rawlins
1988 - Assess the extent to which the unification of Germany under Bismarck led to
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authoritarian government there between 1871 and 1914.
Johnson
1995 - Discuss the ways in which European Jews were affected by and responded to
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liberalism, nationalism, and anti-Semitism in the nineteenth century.
Inguez
Jake
Schaeffer
Amie
Garcia
2009 – Analyze the effects of nationalism on the Austrian Empire in the period 1815 to
1914.
2011 - Analyze how industrialization and imperialism contributed to the development of
consumer culture in the period 1850–1914.
Unit 8: WWI & the Russian Revolution early 20th century (Chapter 27)
Student
Seminar Question
Ayham
Dahlan
Harrison
Longmore
1975 – Discuss the ways in which the First World War contributed to the death of the
aristocratic tradition in politics, social structure, and culture.
1978 - “Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.”
Evaluate this statement with regard to the English Revolution (1640-1660), the French
Revolution(1789-1815), and the Russian Revolution (1917-1930)
1988 - Analyze and assess the extent to which the First World War accelerated European
social change in such areas as work, sex roles, and government involvement in everyday
life.
1994 – Describe and analyze the long-term social and economic trends in the period 1860
to 1917 that prepared the ground for revolution in Russia.
1998 - To what extent and in what ways did nationalist tensions in the Balkans between
1870 and1914 contribute to the outbreak of the First World War?
2004 - Compare and contrast the extent to which the French Revolution (1789-1799) and
the Russian Revolution (1917-1924) changed the status of women.
Alex
Noble
Chris
Malloy
Jordan
Stucki
Urte
Petraityte
Unit 9: Post WWI, Rise of Totalitarianism & WWII 1920’s-1945 (Chapters 28 & 29)
Student
Seminar Questions
1989 - How and in what ways did European painting or literature reflect the
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disillusionment in society between 1919 and 1939?
Lewis
Support your answer with specific artistic or literary examples.
2002 - Analyze the impact of the First World War on European culture and society in the
Madison
Waltemeyer interwar period (1919-1939).
2004 - Analyze the ways in which technology and mass culture contributed to the success
Josh
McDonald of dictators in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
2006 – Considering the period 1933 to 1945, analyze the economic, diplomatic, and
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military reasons for Germany’s defeat in the Second World War.
Marie
Ho See
2006 – Analyze anti-Semitism in Europe from the Dreyfus affair in the 1890’s to 1939.
Zoe
Coker
2009 – Considering the period 1918 to 1948, analyze the political and diplomatic problems
Sergio
faced by TWO of the following newly created Eastern European states.
Flores
Austria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland
2012 – Analyze various ways in which ideology shaped the foreign policy of Nazi
Hatchly
Germany in the period 1933 through 1945.
Galindo
Unit 10: Post WWII, Cold War & the Fall of Communism 1945-1990’s (Chapters 30 & 31)
Student
Seminar Questions
1986 - Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the economic revival of Western Europe
Jazmine
Henderson between 1945 and 1970.
1987 – Analyze the ways in which the Cold War affected the political development of
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European nations from the end of the Second World War in 1945 to the construction of the
Witt
Berlin Wall in 1961?
1996 - Compare and contrast the women’s suffrage movements of the late nineteenth and
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early twentieth centuries with the European feminist movements of the 1960’s and 1970’s.
Lam
2003 - Analyze three reasons for the end of Soviet domination over Eastern Europe.
Julianne
Stopani
2007 - Considering the period 1953 to 1991, analyze the problems within the Soviet Union
Jared
that contributed to the eventual collapse of the Soviet system.
Rivera
2010 – Compare and contrast the goals and achievements of the feminist movement in the
Claire
period circa 1850-1920 with those of the feminist movement in the period 1945 to the
Edwards
present.
2012 – Analyze the various factors that contributed to the process of decolonization in the
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period 1914 to 1975.
Park