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DEREE COLLEGE SYLLABUS FOR:
HY 1001 LE SURVEY OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION II
(Updated Summer 2010)
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The development of the modern world from 1648 to the
present. Emphasis on the interaction of political, social, and
intellectual institutions.
RATIONALE:
This course, the sequel to Survey of Western Civilization I, is
required for history majors but should also prove valuable to
any student interested in an overview of the human
experience since the beginning of modern times.
OBJECTIVES:
As a result of taking this course, the student should be able
to:
1. Demonstrate a basic factual knowledge of Western
civilization since the sixteenth century.
2. Recognize the influence of European culture on the rest
of the world as well as the impact of this
Europeanization on European society itself.
3. Formulate specific ideas (and demonstrate their validity
through factual examples) concerning historical
causation, continuity and sequence.
4. Evaluate the contribution of European civilization to
contemporary civilization, and understand the present
through an inquiry into its roots in the recent past.
5. Critically interpret significant social and political ideas
and events such as imperialism, the failures of political
systems, and the appearance of ideologies.
6. Speculate on the relation of history to the other social
sciences and the humanities, drawing conclusions based
on evidence since 1648.
LEARNING
ACTIVITIES:
EVALUATION:
REQUIRED
MATERIAL:
WWW RESOURCES:
Lectures, class discussions, slides, films.
Two midterm exams (each 30%) and one objective Final
exam (40%).
Noble, T.F.X. et al. Western Civilization; Vol. II. Houghton
Mifflin Co. New York, latest edition.
Halsall, P. www.fordham.edu/halsall/
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Absolutism and Rationalism
1.1. Examples of absolute governments (15thc–17thc)
and intellectual, scientific, political trends (17th c.)
The Enlightenment and Enlightened Despotism (18th c.)
The American and French Revolutions
The Rise and Fall of Napoleon
Political Arrangements in Europe in 1815
The Industrial Revolution and Its Consequences (19th c.)
Romanticism, Socialism, Liberalism, etc.
Political Developments after 1815
8.1. France: July Revolution (1830); February
Revolution (1848)
"June Days" (1848); Second French Empire (1852
– 1870)
8.2. England: Reform Bill; Factory Acts; Corn Laws;
Chartists
1848 Revolutions and Consequences
The Unification of Italy
10.1. Italian Kingdom-Turin (1861)
10.2. Italian Kingdom-Rome (1871)
The Unification of Germany
11.1. William I and Bismarck: militarism
11.2. The Seven Weeks War (1866); the Northern
German Confederation
11.3. Fall of the French Empire and Proclamation of the
Second German Empire (1871)
Changing Russia
12.1. Nicholas I: Orthodoxy-Autocracy-Nationalism
12.2. Crimean War (1853 – 1856)
12.3. Tsar Alexander II: "Liberator"
Late Nineteenth-Century Intellectual (and other)
Movements
The Years of Peace and Uncertainty (1871-1914)
14.1. General characteristics: the “industry of war,"
world trade, urbanization, emigration, economic
imperialism, etc.
Political Developments after 1871
15.1. France
15.1.1. The Third Republic
15.1.2. The Dreyfus Affair and other scandals
15.2. England
15.2.1. Gladstone - Disraeli, Queen Victoria
15.2.2. The Irish Problem
15.2.3. Liberal Reforms
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15.3. Russia
15.3.1. Alexander III and despotism
15.3.2. Nicholas II, the last of the Romanovs
15.3.3. Japanese-Russo War (1904-1905)
15.3.4. Bolsheviks-Mensheviks, Lenin and others
15.3.5. "Bloody Sunday": 1905 and consequences
15.4. Lesser powers
15.4.1. Austria, Italy, the Balkans, Turkey, etc.
World War I (1914-1918)
16.1. Direct and indirect causes
16.2. Outbreak
16.3. Outline of major battles
16.4. Paris Peace Conference (1919)
16.5. President Wilson
16.6. The League of Nations
The Russian Revolution (1917)
17.1. Direct and indirect causes
17.2. The February Revolution
17.3. The Bolshevik Revolution
17.4. Civil War and War Communism
17.5. Rise of the USSR
Interwar Period (1918-1939)
18.1. Postwar politics
18.2. The Weimar Republic in Germany
18.3. Fascism in Italy
18.4. The Great Depression (1929)
18.5. The spread of totalitarianism, fascism, Stalinism,
Nazism
18.6. Ideological struggles and international tensions
World War II (1939-1945)
19.1. Direct and indirect causes
19.2. Outbreak and outline of major battles
19.3. Yalta Conference
19.4. Potsdam Conference
19.5. The beginning of the Atomic Age: Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
19.6. The competition of the Great Powers
The Period of the Cold War (1945/50-1990)
20.1. EEC
20.2. Berlin Wall
20.3. Vietnam
20.4. Cuba
20.5. May 1968
The End of the 20th Century and the Beginning of the
21st Century