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WARRIOR RUN SCHOOL DISTRICT
WARRIOR RUN HIGH SCHOOL
SOCIAL STUDIES
WORLD CULTURES II
CURRICULUM
WRITTEN BY:
SCOTT HOFFMAN
FEBRUARY 2007
WORLD CULTURES II
SCOPE & SEQUENCE
The objectives of this course are to give the students intelligent
understandings of world affairs essential to enrich their life and to help them better
understand their own country. The philosophy underlying the course is designed to
help the student understand the ideals, conflicts, and complexities that constitute
today’s global society. To develop student appreciation of their heritage through a
study of many of the world’s people.
Emphasis is first placed on history and geography of a given area and the
events that led to that area’s contemporary culture. It is not history for history’s
sake that is taught; rather, history is used as a tool to motivate the study of
contemporary societies and to help the student become better prepared to accept
and understand them. Topics for this course start in the Ancient World of the
Mediterranean Sea Civilizations and advance through the Middle Ages of Europe.
The last part of the school year is spent on the past three centuries of European
development and the ebbs and flows of relations among the many ethnic groups
filling the continent of Europe.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Fertile Crescent
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Middle Ages
Renaissance & Reformation
Western Europe – England
- France
- Russia
- Germany
World War I
Rise of Totalitarianism
World War II and Holocaust
Cold War
World Today
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COURSE ACTIVITIES
1. Class Lecture Presentations
2. Instructor Led Classroom Discussion
3. Student Activities as provided by the Teacher’s Resource Guide
4. Videos on selected Historical Events
5. Library and Internet research and assigned Readings
6. In Class Writing Assignments
7. European Map Evaluations
8. Current Event Assignments
9. Reading Activities & Assignments from Textbook
10. Cooperative Activities
11. Note Taking
STUDENT EXPECTATIONS
1. Students are expected to bring their tools to class everyday: pencil, paper
(notebook), and textbook. Students are responsible for the well being of
their textbook.
2. Every student must have a notebook, which may or may not be inspected
or graded by the teacher. All quizzes and homework assignments must be
kept in their notebook until the test on that unit is complete.
3. All students are expected to complete all reading and written assignments
on time, and to participate in all class discussions, activities, and
simulations.
4. Any form of cheating or plagiarism will result in a zero for that
assignment.
5. Each student is expected to behave in a manner appropriate to the
classroom, and to be on time and to accept responsibility for making up
all work missed due to absences.
METHODS OF EVALUATION
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Class participation as the result of teacher-led questioning and discussion.
Quizzes and tests, which will be given approximately once a week.
Research reports and PowerPoint presentations.
Student Activity worksheets.
Homework Assignments.
Current Event Assignments.
Scribe Notes.
Teacher observation of student interaction during structured classroom
activities.
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Textbook: World History
Workbooks and Resource Material (resource – World History)
Library and computer labs
Internet
Newspapers
WORLD CULTURES II COURSE
OBJECTIVES, STANDARDS, & CONTENT
*(STANDARDS 7.1, 8.1 AND 8.4 ARE USED THROUGH THE ENTIRE
COURSE)
Ancient Egypt (3200 B.C.-500 B.C.)
Objectives
1) Understand the ways in which geography helped shape ancient Egypt. (7.4.9.B)
2) Analyze the achievements of Egypt’s Old Kingdom. (7.4.12.A)
3) Describe the events that brought turbulence to Egypt’s Middle Kingdom.
(8.4.9.B)
4) Find out how Egypt grew strong during the New Kingdom. (8.4.9.B)
5) Discover the ways in which religious beliefs shaped the lives of ancient Egyptians.
(8.4.9.C)
6) Understand how ancient Egyptians viewed the afterlife. (8.1.9.B)
7) Learn how the ancient Egyptians organized their society. (8.4.9.B)
8) Outline the advances the ancient Egyptians made in learning, the arts, and
literature. (8.4.9.B)
Content
(Objectives for the Content)
I.
Ancient Egypt (3200 B.C.-500 B.C.)
A. Geography (1)
B. History (Old, Middle, New Kingdoms) (2,3,4)
C. Religion and Afterlife (5,6)
D. Culture (Writing System, Advances in Technology, Daily
Life) (7,8)
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Ancient Fertile Crescent (3200 B.C.-500 B.C.)
Objectives
1) Understand how geography influenced the development of civilization in the
Fertile Crescent. (7.1.9.B)
2) Outline the main features of Sumerian civilization. (7.1.9.B)
3) Explain how the advances in learning made by the Sumerians left a lasting legacy
for later peoples to build on. (7.3.12.A)
4) Learn about the achievements of the first empires that arose in Mesopotamia.
(8.4.9.B)
5) Understand how conquests brought new empires and ideas into the Middle East.
(5.1.9.B)
6) Describe how the Persians established a huge empire. (5.1.12.A)
7) Find out what contributions the Phoenicians made to the ancient Middle East.
(5.1.12.B)
8) Understand what made the ancient Israelites’ belief system unique from others at
the time. (5.1.12.C)
9) Outline the main events in the early history of the Israelites. (8.4.9.B)
10) Analyze the moral and ethical ideas that Judaism teaches. (8.4.9.C)
Content
II.
Ancient Fertile Crescent (3200 B.C.-500 B.C.)
A. Geography (1)
B. History (Sumerians, Babylonians, Hittites, Assyrians,
Persians, Phoenicians, Hebrews) (2,3,5,6,9)
C. Advances in Technology (Military, Sciences, Writing) Belief
Systems (Government and Law, Daily Life, Standards of
Behavior, Art) (4,7,8,10)
Ancient Greece (1750 B.C.-133 B.C.)
Objectives
1) Identify the influences on Minoan culture and how the civilization prospered.
(8.4.9.A)
2) Summarize how Mycenaean’s ruled the sea trade and started the Trojan War.
(8.4.9.C)
3) Describe the works of Homer and their influences on Greek culture. (8.4.9.D)
4) Understand how geography influenced the Greek city-states. (5.1.9.B)
5) Define the three types of government that developed in the Greek city-states.
(5.1.12.B)
6) Explain how Athens and Sparta differed. (5.2.9.A)
7) Identify the culture and values shared by Greeks. (8.1.9.D)
8) Summarize how the Persian Wars affected Greece. (8.1.12.D)
9) Explain how Pericles instituted a direct democracy in Athens. (8.4.9.A)
10) Understand the causes and effects of the Peloponnesian War. (8.4.9.C)
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11) Analyze the political and ethical ideas developed by Greek philosophers.
(5.3.12.K)
12) Understand how balance and order governed Greek art and architecture.
(8.4.9.A)
13) Identify the themes explored by Greek writers and historians. (8.4.9.B)
14) Explain how Alexander the Great built an extensive empire. (8.4.9.A)
15) Describe the empire’s cultural impact. 8.4.9.C)
16) Identify individuals who contributed to Hellenistic civilization. (8.4.9.C)
Content
III.
Ancient Greece (1750 B.C.-133 B.C.)
A. Geography (1)
B. Early People of the Aegean (2,3)
1. Minoans
2. The Trojan War
C. The Rise of Greek City-States (4,5,6,7)
1. Sparta
2. Athens
D.
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Conflict in the Greek World (8,9,10)
Persian Wars
Pericles
Peloponnesian War
E. The Glory that was Greece (11,12,13)
1. Philosophers, Historians, Artists, Architects
2. Science and Technology
F. Alexander and the Hellenistic Age (14,15,16)
1. Alexander the Great
Ancient Rome (509 B.C.-476 A.D.)
Objectives
1) Find out about the physical and cultural settings in which Roman civilization
arose. (5.1.9.B)
2) Learn how the Roman republic was structured and governed. (5.1.9.C)
3) Understand the rights and religious practices that characterized Roman society.
(5.3.9.K)
4) Explain how the Roman republic grew and maintained its conquests. (5.3.12.K)
5) Understand how the Roman republic grew through a series of conquests.
(6.2.12.F)
6) Learn about the events leading to the decline of the Roman republic. (6.4.12.B)
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7) Describe the nature of the new age that dawned with the Roman Empire.
(8.4.9.A)
8) Learn about the works of Roman poets, historians, and philosophers. 5.1.9.B)
9) Describe the art and architecture developed by the Romans. (5.1.12.B)
10) Understand how the Romans applied science and mathematics for practical use.
(8.4.9.A)
11) Explain how Rome’s legal codes protected everyone in the empire. (8.4.9.B)
12) Understand the diverse religions included in the early Roman Empire. (8.4.9.B)
13) Find out about the teachings of Jesus and how they were spread. (8.4.9.C)
14) Outline the development of the early Christian Church. (8.4.9.D)
15) Learn how and why the Roman Empire divided. (8.4.9.C)
16) Describe how waves of invaders contributed to the decline of the Roman
Empire. (8.4.9.D)
17) Explain the various types of problems that led to the fall of the Roman Empire.
(8.4.9.D)
Content
IV.
Ancient Rome (509 B.C.-476 A.D.)
A. Geography (1)
B. The Roman World Takes Shape (2,3)
1. Roman Republic
C. From Republic to Empire (4,5,6,7)
1. Roman Conquest
2. Roman Empire
D. The Roman Achievement (8,9,10,11)
1. Literature, History, Philosophy, Art, Architecture, Science,
Math, Law
E. The Rise of Christianity (12,13,14)
1. Development of the Early Church
F. The Long Decline (15,16,17)
1. Internal Decay
2. External Invasion
Middle Ages (500-1450)
Objectives
1) Describe Western Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire. (8.4.9.A)
2) Describe how Germanic tribes carved Europe into small kingdoms. (8.4.9.C)
3) Explain how Charlemagne briefly reunited much of Western Europe and what
happened to his empire after his death. (6.1.9.A)
4) Explain how feudalism shaped the medieval society. (6.2.12.B)
5) Describe the life of knights and nobles. (8.1.12.A)
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6) Analyze how the economic system of the manor worked and how it affected
peasants and nobles. (8.4.9.C)
7) Explain how the Church shaped medieval life. (7.3.9.B)
8) Understand monastic life and the influence of medieval monks and nuns. (8.1.9.C)
9) Analyze how the power of the Church grew during the Middle Ages and how
reformers worked for change in the Church. (8.4.9.B)
10) Describe the situation of Jews in medieval Europe. (6.4.9.B)
11) Summarize how new technologies sparked an agricultural revolution. (6.4.12.D)
12) Explain how the revival of trade revolutionized commerce and led to the growth
of towns. (7.3.9.D)
13) Analyze the rise of the middle class and the role of guilds. (8.4.9.A)
14) Describe life in medieval towns and cities. (8.4.9.B)
15) Learn how monarchs gained power over nobles and the Church. (5.1.9.B)
16) Describe how William the Conqueror and Henry II strengthened English royal
power. (5.1.9.B)
17) Analyze the traditions of government that developed under King John and later
English monarchs. (5.1.9.E)
18) Explain how strong monarchs unified France. (5.2.9.A)
19) Understand why Holy Roman emperors failed to build a unified nation-state in
Germany. (8.1.9.B)
20) Describe the conflict between Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV.
(8.1.12.A)
21) Summarize the struggle to control Italy. (8.1.12.A)
22) Analyze how the Church reached the height of its powers under Innocent III.
(8.4.9.C)
23) Identify the advanced civilizations that were flourishing in 1050. (8.4.9.D)
24) Explain the causes and effects of the Crusades. (8.4.9.D)
25) Summarize how Christians in Spain carried out the Reconquista. (8.4.9.B)
26) Explain the emergence of universities and their importance to medieval life.
(8.4.9.B)
27) Understand how newly translated writings from the past and from other
religions influenced medieval thought. (8.4.9.C)
28) Describe the literature, architecture, and art of the High Middle Ages. (8.4.9.C)
29) Understand how the Black Death caused social and economic decline. (6.4.12.D)
30) Describe the problems facing the Church in the Middle Ages and how the
Church reacted. (7.3.9.A)
31) Summarize the causes, turning points, and effects of the Hundred Years’ War.
(7.3.9.D)
Content
V.
Middle Ages (500-1450)
A. The Early Middle Ages (1,2,3)
1. Germanic Kingdoms
2. Charlemagne
B. Feudalism and the Manor Economy (4,5,6)
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1. Feudalism
2. Knights and Nobles
3. Manors
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The Medieval Church (7,8,9,10)
Role in Life
Monasteries and Convents
Corruption and Reform
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Economic Recovery and Change (11,12,13,14)
Agricultural Revolution
Revival of Trade and Travel
Commercial Revolution
Middle Class
Towns
E. Growth of Royal Power (15,16,17,18)
1. Developments of Government (England and France)
F. The Holy Roman Empire and the Church (19,20,21,22)
1. Struggle between Church and Government for Power
G. The Crusades (23,24,25)
1. Impact of the Crusades
H. Learning and Culture (26,27,28)
1. Universities, Literature, Architecture, and Art
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Problems and Crisis (29,30,31)
Black Death
Decay of the Church
Hundred Years War
Renaissance & Reformation (1300-1650)
Objectives
1) Describe the characteristics of the Renaissance and understand why it began in
Italy. (8.1.12.C)
2) Identify Renaissance artists and explain how new ideas affected the art of the
period. (8.1.12.D)
3) Understand how writers of the time addressed Renaissance themes. (8.4.9.A)
4) Explain how the printing revolution shaped European society. (8.4.9.B)
5) Describe the themes that northern European artists, humanists, and writers
explored. (8.4.12.A)
6) Summarize the factors that encouraged the Protestant Reformation. (8.4.12.B)
7) Analyze Martin Luther’s role in shaping the Protestant Reformation. (8.4.12.B)
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8) Explain the teachings and impact of John Calvin. (8.4.12.A)
9) Describe the new ideas that Protestant sects embraced. (8.4.12.B)
10) Understand why England formed a new church. (8.4.12.A)
11) Analyze how the Catholic Church reformed itself. (8.4.12.C)
12) Explain why many groups faced persecution during the Reformation. (8.4.12.D)
13) Explain how new discoveries in astronomy changed the way people viewed the
universe. (8.4.12.A)
14) Understand the new scientific method and how it developed. (8.4.12.B)
15) Analyze the contributions that Newton and other scientists made to the Scientific
Revolution. (8.4.12.C)
Content
VI.
Renaissance & Reformation (1300-1650)
A. The Renaissance in Italy (1,2,3)
1. Beginning of the Renaissance
2. Artists and Writers
B. The Renaissance in Northern Europe (4,5)
1. Printing
2. Artists and Writers
C. The Protestant Reformation (6,7,8,9)
1. Reformers
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Spread of the Reformation (10,11,12)
English Reformation
Catholic Reformation
Persecution
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Scientific Revolution (13,14,15)
Views of the Universe
New Scientific Method
Medicine and Chemistry
VII. Western Europe (1550-1914)
England (1550-1914)
Objectives
1) Describe the Tudor monarch’s relations with Parliament. (5.1.9.C)
2) Analyze how the disputes between the Stuarts and Parliament ushered in a
century of revolution. (8.4.12.A)
3) Understand how the English Civil War and the rise of the Commonwealth led to
the Glorious Revolution. (8.4.12.D)
4) Explain the development of English constitutional government. (8.4.12.D)
5) Analyze why life changed as industry spread. (6.4.9.A)
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6) Summarize how an agricultural revolution led to the growth of industry. (6.4.9.B)
7) Outline the new technologies that helped trigger the Industrial Revolution.
(8.4.12.A)
8) Understand why Britain was the starting point for the Industrial Revolution.
(6.2.12.A)
9) Describe the changes that transformed the textile industry. (8.1.12.D)
10) Explain the significance of the transportation revolution. (8.4.12.C)
11) Describe how reformers worked to change Parliament in the 1800s. (5.2.12.A)
12) Understand the values that Queen Victoria represented. (8.4.12.A)
13) Summarize how the Liberal and Conservative parties helped bring a new era to
British politics. (8.4.12.C)
14) Identify the social and economic reforms benefiting British workers and others.
(6.2.9.H)
15) Describe how British women worked to win the right to vote. (8.4.12.C)
16) Understand the causes of conflict between the British and the Irish nationalists.
(8.4.12.D)
Content
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England
Parliament in England (1550-1800) (1,2,3,4)
Industrial Revolution (1750-1914) (5,6,7,8,9,10)
Democratic Reform (1815-1914) (11,12,13)
Social and Economic Reform (1815-1914) (14,15,16)
France (1550-1914)
Objectives
1) Understand how Henry IV rebuilt France after the wars of religion. (5.1.9.A)
2) Explain how Louis XIV became an absolute monarch. (5.3.9.K)
3) Describe how Versailles was a symbol of royal power. (8.4.12.A)
4) Identify Louis XIV’s successes and failures. (8.4.12.B)
5) Describe the social divisions of France’s old order. (5.2.12.A)
6) List reasons for France’s economic troubles in 1789. (5.2.12.B)
7) Explain why Louis XVI called the Estates-General and summarize what resulted.
(8.4.12.A)
8) Understand why Parisians stormed the Bastille. (8.4.12.B)
9) Explain how the political crisis of 1789 led to popular revolts. (5.4.9.C)
10) Summarize the moderate reforms enacted by the National Assembly in August
1789. (8.1.9.D)
11) Identify additional actions taken by the National Assembly as it pressed onward.
(8.4.12.A)
12) Analyze why there was a mixed reaction around Europe to events unfolding in
France. (8.4.12.B)
13) Understand how and why radicals abolished the monarchy. (8.1.12.C)
14) Explain why the Committee of Public Safety was created and why the Reign of
Terror resulted. (8.4.12.A)
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15) Summarize how the excesses of the Convention led to the formation of the
Directory. (8.4.12.B)
16) Analyze how French people were affected by the change brought about by the
revolution. (8.4.12.C)
17) Understand Napoleon’s rise to power and why the French strongly supported
him. (7.3.9.D)
18) Explain how Napoleon built an empire and what challenges the empire faced.
(7.3.12.C)
19) Analyze the events that led to Napoleons downfall. (8.4.12.A)
20) Outline how the Congress of Vienna tried to create a lasting peace. (8.4.12.C)
21) Describe how French rebels won reforms in 1830. (8.1.12.C)
22) Analyze how the spirit of reform spread in 1830. (8.4.12.C)
23) Explain how revolution surged through France in 1848. (8.4.12.D)
24) List the domestic and foreign policies of Napoleon III. (8.4.12.A)
25) Analyze the impact of the Dreyfus affair and other challenges of the Third
Republic. (8.4.12.C)
26) Describe the French government’s steps toward reform in the early 1900s.
(8.4.12.D)
Content
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France
France under Louis XIV (1550-1800) (1,2,3,4,5,6,7)
The French Revolution (1789-1815) (8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16)
Napoleon (1789-1815) (17,18,19,20)
Revolutions of 1830 and 1848 (1790-1848) (21,22,23)
Division and Democracy (1815-1914) (24,25,26)
Russia (1550-1914)
Objectives
1) Understand how geography influenced the rise of Russia. (7.1.9.B)
2) Describe the growth of Kiev. (7.1.9.B)
3) Explain how Mongol rule affected Russia. (7.1.9.B)
4) Describe how Moscow took the lead in Russia and how its rulers developed
authoritarian control. (7.3.12.A)
5) Explain how Peter the Great tried to make Russia into a modern state. (5.3.12.K)
6) Identify the steps Peter took to expand Russia’s borders. (8.4.12.A)
7) Describe how Catherine the Great strengthened Russia. (8.4.12.D)
8) Describe major obstacles to progress in Russia. (7.3.9.A)
9) Explain why tsars followed a cycle of absolutism, reform, and reaction. (7.3.9.B)
10) Understand why the problems of industrialization contributed to the outbreak
of revolution. (7.3.12.A)
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Content
C. Russia
1. Absolute Monarchy (1550-1800) (1,2,3,4,5,6,7)
2. Reform and Reaction (1800-1914) (8,9,10)
Germany (1550-1914)
Objectives
1) Outline causes and results of the Thirty Years’ War. (8.4.12.A)
2) Understand how Prussia emerged as a great power. (8.4.12.C)
3) Describe how European nations tried to maintain a balance of power. (8.4.12.D)
4) Identify several events that promoted German unity during the early 1800s.
(8.4.12.A)
5) Explain how Bismarck unified Germany. (8.4.12.A)
6) Analyze the basic political organization of the new German empire. (8.4.12.C)
7) Describe how Germany became an industrial giant. (7.3.12.E)
8) Explain why Bismarck was called the Iron Chancellor. (8.4.12.A)
9) List the policies of Kaiser William II. (8.4.12.A)
Content
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Germany
Rise of Prussia (1550-1800) (1,2,3)
Building a German Nation (1800-1914) (4,5,6)
Germany Strengthens (1800-1914) (7,8,9)
World War I (1914-1924)
Objectives
1) Describe how international rivalries and nationalism pushed Europe toward was.
(7.1.9.B)
2) Explain how the assassination in Sarajevo led to the start of World War I.
(8.1.12.B)
3) Analyze the causes and effects of the European alliance system. (8.4.12.A)
4) Understand why a stalemate developed on the Western Front. (8.4.12.A)
5) Describe how technology made World War I different from other wars. (8.4.12.B)
6) Outline the course of the war on the Eastern Front. (8.4.12.B)
7) Summarize how colonies fought in the war. (8.4.12.C)
8) Describe how World War I became a total war. (8.4.12.D)
9) Explain the effect that years of warfare had on morale. (5.4.12.B)
10) Analyze the causes and effects of American entry into the war. (5.4.12.C)
11) Summarize events that led to the end of the war. (5.4.12.D)
12) Analyze the costs of World War I. (5.4.9.A)
13) Describe the issues faced by delegates to the Paris Peace Conference. (5.4.9.E)
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14) Explain why many people were dissatisfied with the Treaty of Versailles and
other peace settlements. (8.3.12.B)
15) Explain the causes of the March Revolution. (6.1.9.A)
16) Describe the goals of Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the November revolution.
(7.1.12.B)
17) Outline how the Communists defeated their opponents in Russia’s civil war.
(8.4.12.A)
18) Analyze how the Communist state developed under Lenin. (8.4.12.D)
Content
VIII. World War I (1914-1924)
A. Beginning of the War (1,2,3,4)
1. Alliances, Rivalries, Nationalism
B. New Kind of War (5,6,7)
1. Technology and Strategy
C.
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3.
Winning the War (8,9,10)
Total War
Propaganda
U.S. enters the War
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Peace (11,12,13,14)
Cost of War
Treaty of Versailles
League of Nations
E. Russian Revolution and Civil War (15,16,17,18)
1. Bolsheviks
2. Communism in Russia
1920’s & 1930’s
Objectives
1) Analyze how Western society changed after World War I. (8.3.12.C)
2) Describe the literary and artistic trends that emerged in the 1920s. (8.4.12.A)
3) List the new discoveries that revolutionized modern science and thought.
(8.4.12.B)
4) Describe how conditions in Italy favored the rise of Mussolini. (8.4.9.D)
5) Summarize how Mussolini changed Italy. (8.4.12.A)
6) Understand the values and goals of fascist ideology. (8.4.12.C)
7) Compare and contrast fascism and communism. (8.4.12.D)
8) Describe the effects of Stalin’s five-year plan. (8.4.12.A)
9) Summarize how Stalin tried to control how people thought in the Soviet Union.
(8.4.12.A)
10) List how communism changed Soviet society. (8.4.12.C)
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11) Analyze Soviet foreign policy. (8.4.12.C)
12) Analyze the problems the Weimar Republic faced. (7.3.9.B)
13) Describe the Nazi party’s political, social, economic, and cultural policies.
(7.3.12.E)
14) Summarize authoritarian rule in Eastern Europe in the 1920s and 1930s.
(8.4.12.A)
Content
IX.
Rise of Totalitarianism (1919-1939)
A. Postwar Social Change (1,2)
1. Change in Society
2. Literature and Art
B. Western Democracies (3)
1. Politics and Foreign Policy of Postwar
2. Economics (Great Depression)
C. Fascism and Mussolini (4,5,6,7)
D. Communism and Stalin (8,9,10,11)
E. Nazi Germany and Hitler (12,13,14)
World War II (1931-1945)
Objectives
1) Analyze the threat to world peace posed by dictators in the 1930s and how the
Western democracies responded. (8.4.12.A)
2) Describe how the Spanish Civil War was a “dress rehearsal” for World War II.
(8.4.12.C)
3) Summarize the ways in which continuing Nazi aggression led Europe to war.
(8.4.12.D)
4) Describe how the Axis powers came to control much of Europe, but failed to
conquer Great Britain. (7.1.9.B)
5) Summarize Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union. (8.4.12.C)
6) Understand the horror of the genocide the Nazis committed. (8.4.12.C)
7) Describe the role of the United States before and after joining World War II.
(8.4.12.D)
8) Understand how nations devoted all of their resources to fighting World War II.
(8.4.12.A)
9) Explain how Allied victories began to push back the Axis powers. (8.4.12.C)
10) Describe D-Day and the Allied advance toward Germany. (8.4.12.D)
11) Describe the issues faced by the Allies after World War II ended. (5.4.9.B)
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12) Summarize the organization of the United Nations. (5.4.12.E)
13) Analyze how new conflicts developed between the former Allies in the years
following World War II. (7.3.12.B)
Content
X.
World War II & Holocaust (1931-1945)
A. Appeasement to War (1,2,3)
1. Beginning of War
B. Axis Advances (4,5,6)
1. Nazi Invasions
C. Allies turn the Tide (7,8,9,10)
1. Allies Push Toward Germany
D. Holocaust (11)
1. Reason and Aftermath
E. The War Ends (12,13)
1. A New World
Cold War (1945-1991)
Objectives
1) Understand how two sides faced off in Europe during the Cold War. (5.4.9.A)
2) Learn how nuclear programs threatened the world. (5.4.12.B)
3) Understand how the Cold War spread globally. (5.4.12.C)
4) Compare and contrast the Soviet Union and the United States in the Cold War.
(7.1.9.B)
5) Understand how the United States prospered and changed during the Cold War.
(6.1.12.D)
6) Explain how Europe rebuilt its economy after World War II. (8.2.12.A)
7) Understand how the Soviet Union declined. (8.4.12.A)
8) Analyze the changes that transformed Eastern Europe. (8.4.12.A)
9) Explain how communism declined worldwide and how the United States became
the sole superpower. (8.4.12.D)
Content
XI.
Cold War (1945-1991)
A. Cold War Starts (1,2,3)
1. Divisions
2. Nuclear Weapons Threat
B. Democracies in the West (4,5)
1. Prosperity and Rebirth
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C. Conflict between U.S. and U.S.S.R. (6,7)
D. End of the Cold War (8,9)
1. Decline of the U.S.S.R.
2. Change in Eastern Europe
The World Today (1991-TODAY)
Objectives
1) Examine social, political, and economic trends in Europe after the Cold War.
(6.1.12.D)
2) Analyze how the United States and Russia’s shifting roles have affected the
balance of global power. (6.2.9.H)
3) Describe the ways in which countries around the world are independent.
(6.2.12.L)
4) Understand how international treaties and organizations make global trade
possible. (7.3.12.D)
5) Analyze the costs and benefits of global trade. (7.3.12.E)
6) Explain the causes and effects of global poverty, disasters, and disease. (7.4.12.A)
7) Analyze whether the basic human rights of people around the world are being
upheld. (6.3.12.C)
8) Discuss the environmental challenges that have resulted from industrial
development. (7.2.9.B)
9) Explain why nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons threaten global security.
(8.4.12.C)
10) Analyze the various terrorist groups and why they are becoming more and more
dangerous. (8.3.12.A)
11) Describe the various ways in which the United States and other nations have
responded to terrorism. (8.3.12.D)
12) Describe the exploration of space and the practical applications that resulted
from it. (6.4.9.D)
13) Analyze the development and impact of the computer revolution. (6.5.12.B)
14) Explain how advances in medicine and biotechnology have shaped life today.
(6.5.12.F)
Content
XII.
World Today (1991 –Today)
A. Industrialization after the Cold War (1,2)
1. Change in Europe
B. Globalization (3,4,5)
1. Interdependent World
2. Trade and Treaties
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C. Challenges for Growth (6,7,8)
1. Social and Environmental Issues
D. Security in the World Today (9,10,11)
1. Modern Weapons
2. Terrorism
E.
1.
2.
3.
Advances in Science and Technology (12,13,14)
Space
Computers
Medicine and Biotechnology
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