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CONCEPTUAL LENS: Turning points
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Unit 7 Conflict and
Change
World History
World History
Objectives:
WH.H.7
Concepts/Vocabulary:
Nationalism, Imperialism, Militarism,
Industrialism, Global conflict, Russian
Revolution, Global Depression, Colonial
Rule, Socialism, Capitalism,
Communism, The Marshall Plan, Truman
Doctrine, Independence, Empire, AntiSemitism
Content:
Analyze the key turning points of
the modern era.
Explain the impact of revolutions
on the modern world
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
EQ: How can students understand how
national, regional, and ethnic interests
have contributed to conflict among
groups and nations in the modern era?
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Bismarck’s “Blood and Iron”
speech
Zimmerman Telegram
Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points
Treaty of Versailles
Balfour Declaration
Lenin’s Call to Power
Stalin’s Five-year plan
Mein Kamph
Churchill’s, “Iron Curtain speech
Gandhi on Partition (1942)
Textbook Correlation
Human Legacy
Chapters 23, 24, 25, 26 27, 28
Unit 7 Conflict and change
UNIT
ESSENTIAL
STANDARDS
CRITICAL
CONTENT
WH.H.7.1 Evaluate key turning points of the modern era in terms of their lasting impact (e.g., conflicts, documents, policies,
movements, etc.).
WH.H.7.2 Analyze the increase in economic and military competition among nations in terms of the influences of
nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and industrialization (e.g., Ottoman Empire, Japanese Empire, Prussian Empire, the
German Empire, “Have and Have nots” of Europe, industrial America, etc.).
WH.H.7.3 Analyze economic and political rivalries, ethnic and regional conflicts, and nationalism and imperialism as
underlying causes of war (e.g., WWI, Russian Revolution, WWII)
WH.H.7.4 Explain how social and economic conditions of colonial rule contributed to the rise of nationalistic movements
(e.g., India, Africa, Southeast Asia).
WH.H.7.5 Analyze the emergence of capitalism as a dominant economic pattern and the responses to it from various
nations and groups (e.g., utopianism, social democracy, socialism, communism, etc.).
WH.H.7.6 Explain how economic crisis contributed to the growth of various political and economic movements (e.g., Great
Depression, nationalistic movements of colonial Africa and Asia, socialist and communist movements, effect on capitalist
economic theory, etc.).
Students should know:
1. How and why major political, military and economic campaigns or decisions have forever changed the course of
history.
2. Imperialism brings European nations into conflict as they compete for limited resources such as land.
3. How the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and the mandate system led to the creation of new nations in the
Middle East.
4. Why pressures of extreme nationalism and economic upheaval set Japan on a militaristic and expansionist path in the
early twentieth century.
5. How and why Bismarck was successful with German unity when others had failed.
6. Underlying and immediate causes of World War I and World War II.
7. How the writings of Karl Marx influenced the Russian Revolution and created the Soviet Union.
8. Why the Second World War developed from the inadequate peace following the First World War.
9. Why the failure of the Treaty of Versailles, the impact of the global depression, and the expansionist policies and
actions of Axis nations are viewed as major factors that resulted in World War II.
10. How The Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, and Eisenhower Doctrines were used to solidify the economies of new
democratic nations.
11. What factors contributed to the Great Depression
PREVIEW
QUESTIONS
(Can use for
warm-ups or
bell ringers)
SAMPLE
PERFORMANCE
TASKS AND
PROCESSING
ASSIGNMENTS
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How did Mazzini, Cavour, and Garibaldi contribute to Italian unification?
Describe how economics motivated the Imperialism of Western nations?
Explain the impact of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
What effect do you think the inflation of the early 1920s had on the German people?
Why did Neville Chamberlain think that meeting with Hitler would bring peace?
Why do you think the German blitzkrieg attacks were so successful?
How did the use of atomic bombs change the world?
What two forces were at war within China in the 1920s through 1940s?.
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Write a PAQ (primary artifacts question)
Timeline of major turning points in the modern era
Create analogies for different types of government
Map European boundaries and compare the changes that resulted from World War I and World War II.