Download Modern World History Course of study honors

Modern World History Course
2011-2012
Honors
Rachel Nulty [email protected]
Course Requirements:
GradedMaterials: Marking Periods (18 Weeks)
All graded material will receive points. Graded material includes major tests and projects will be worth 60% of
the marking period grade, quizzes and major classwork will be worth 30% of the marking period grade and
homework will be worth 10% of the marking period grade. This grading breakdown is the same for all the
modern world history courses in the building.
Late Policy: E MAIL ME
Homework – Homework that is not handed in on due date will not be accepted. If student is sick, they should
have the homework to me the next day that they are back unless they e mail and tell me otherwise.
Projects – Projects will lose ten percentage points per day late. Projects are due the next day back from an
illness unless student has e mailed teacher and asked permission for an extension for an extenuating
circumstance.
Grading Breakdown for Course:
Marking Period One – 33%
Marking Period Two – 33%
Core Assessment One – 10%
Core Assessment Two – 10%
Final Exam – 14%
Core Assessments-There will be two core assessments for this course that each will be worth 10% of the final
grade for the entire course. These core assessments will correspond with our Imperialism unit and be
completed in the first and the second marking period. Please Note: If these assignments are handed in late,
they will be deducted 10 points per day and there will be no exceptions.
Final Exam-There is a Final Exam for this class. It consists of a free response essay and a multiple choice exam. It
is worth 14% of the final grade.
Required Readings: It is required that the honors course read a series of primary source documents and or
excerpts of historical memoirs.
Expectations
•Please respect your classmates and your teacher
•Please take responsibility for your grades and missed work
•Please contact me personally if you have any concerns or problems
•Please respect the rules and regulations of Central Bucks South
Course of Study – Major Units – This course covers modern world history from the Enlightenment to African
Decolonization.
Text: The Earth and its Peoples and Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction
Modern World History - Honors
Course Study Guide
Unit 1: Seeds of Change: Emergence of the First Global Age (1450-1770) (2 weeks)
1. What was absolutism? How did the absolute monarchs of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries
justify their right to rule? Page 507, 510
The Scientific Revolution 492-499
2. What was the scientific revolution? What were the major scientific discoveries made during this
time period and how did these discoveries affect the lives and beliefs of Europeans?
The Enlightenment 640-642
3. What was the Enlightenment and why is this period sometimes called the “Age of Reason?”
4. Explain the key ideas of these Enlightenment philosophers:
a. Hobbes
b. Voltaire
c. Montesquieu
d. Rousseau
5. Explain the major ideas of the political philosopher John Locke. Why are Locke’s ideas especially
important to us?
6. What was an “Enlightened Despot” and why did such rulers accept Enlightenment ideas?
7. (Class Handout) Enlightened Thinkers Graphic Organizer – use online sources and complete
Unit II – Revolution
French Revolution and Napoleon, Italian and German Unification, Latin American Revolution
647-665
8. Explain the causes of the French Revolution. Include the existing conflict between
classes, the influence of the Enlightenment, and the economic problems France faced in
the18th century.
9. What were the key ideas contained in the Declaration of the Rights of Man. How do the
ideas in this document compare with those in the Declaration of Independence?
10.
Who was Robespierre? How was Robespierre’s Reign of Terror similar to the
later purges of Joseph Stalin?
11. Who was Napoleon Bonaparte? Explain his rise to power and the impact that it had on
Europe. What mistakes did Napoleon make that contributed to his eventual downfall?
12. What is Napoleon’s legacy? Explain the changes that his reign brought to France. Why is
the
Napoleonic Code especially important?
13. What were the goals of the Congress of Vienna? Explain the lasting impact of the
decisions made at this conference.
Nationalism 660-665 693-69, 802-808
14. What is nationalism? What are the general goals and beliefs of nationalists?
15. How can nationalism be a force for either unity or disunity?
16. Who was Otto von Bismarck? Explain his policy of realpolitik. How did Bismarck
change the balance of power in Europe by 1871?
Unit III Industrialism and Imperialism
Industrialization 666-690, 792-794, 797-799
17. What was the industrial revolution? What were the key advancements that occurred during
this time?
18. What factors of production are required for industrialization?
19. Why did the industrial revolution begin in England?
20. What were the positive and the negative effects of industrialization?
21. Contrast the ideas of the economic thinkers Adam Smith (in The Wealth of Nations) and
Karl Marx (in The Communist Manifesto).
a. Compare and contrast the following economic systems. Explain the key ideas
associated with laissez-faire, capitalism, Socialism, Marxist Socialism (Communism)
CORE ASSESSMENT NUMBER ONE
Imperialism 816-832, (Motives, Africa)
22. What is imperialism? What were the motives behind European imperialism in the nonWestern world?
23. What was the “White Man’s Burden?” How was the concept of Social Darwinism used
to justify European imperialism?
24. Why did Europeans want to colonize Africa? Identify the key factors that made European
colonization of Africa possible.
25. What was the result of the 1884-85 Berlin Conference?
26. Where is the Suez Canal located and why is it important?
27. Explain the phrase, “The sun never sets on the British Empire.” Describe the British Empire
at its peak.
28. Why was India Britain’s “jewel in the crown? How did British rule impact India and how did
the Indians respond to British imperialism?
29. Contrast how China and Japan responded to Western imperialism.
30. Compare the causes of the Opium War and the Boxer Rebellion. How are they similar?
31. Who was King Leopold? What kind of ruler was he? Was he typical of European
imperialists?
China up to Mao and India up to Gandhi
Chinese Imperialism
Qing Empire 741-747
Chinese Revolution and the Goumindang – 862
Cultural Revolution page 956 -57
Jiang Jieshi and Mao, Chinese Civil War – 888-889, 897-898
32. Identify the parties and leaders involved in the Chinese civil war. How did the goals of the
Nationalists and the Communists differ? Why did China’s peasants support the Communists
and Mao Zedong? What was the outcome of this civil war?
India British Rule and Indian Nationalism to Partition and Independence (Gandhi)
India Under British Rule 766-772, Gandhi 908-915
33. What was the goal of Indian nationalists? How did British policies in India contribute to the
rise of nationalism in India?
34. Who was Mohandas Gandhi? Explain how Gandhi used the policies of satyagraha (civil
disobedience) and passive (non-violent) resistance in his campaign for independence. How
did Gandhi’s Salt March illustrate these tactics?
35. In what ways did ethnic and religious difference lead to the partition of India and Pakistan?
What were the results of this partition? How does this partition continue to impact events
today?
Unit IV World War One and Russian Revolution/Stalin
World War I 846-853, 854-856, 859 Russian Revolution 854, 856-859, Stalin 878-880
1. Explain the long-term causes of WWI. Focus specifically on nationalism, imperialism,
militarism, and the alliance systems
2. Identify the two major alliances that existed in prewar Europe and the countries that belonged
to each.
3. Describe the short-term, immediate causes of the war. Focus on tensions in the Balkans and
the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
4. Describe the strategies, tactics and weaponry used in WWI. How did these things impact the
number of casualties suffered by both sides in this war?
5. Explain the outcome of the war.
6. Explain the conflicting goals of the Allies at the Versailles Peace Conference.
7. What were the final provisions of the Treaty of Versailles? How did this treaty impact
Germany?
8. Contrast the impact of the Treaty of Versailles with the earlier Congress of Vienna.
9. What were the causes of the Russian Revolution? Compare the causes of the Russian
Revolution to the causes of the French Revolution.
10. What were the beliefs and goals of Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks? Describe the events
of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
11. Define totalitarianism and explain its key traits.
12. Explain how Joseph Stalin came to power and explain the methods he used to establish and
maintain a totalitarian state in the Soviet Union. Focus on his five year plans,
collectivization, the “Great Purge,” and the Soviet Gulags.
Unit V/VI Rise of Fascism and World War Two
Depression and Economic Crisis 881-884, Rise of Fascism and Road to war 885-886
1.
2.
3.
4.
What is fascism? How did conditions in Europe after WWI lead to the rise of fascism in
Europe?
What are the similarities and differences between fascism and communism?
How did fascist dictators come to power in Italy and Germany? Who were these dictators?
What was Nazism? What were the core beliefs of the Nazi Party in Germany? How was
the fascism practiced in Germany different from the fascism practiced in Italy?
Unit VI World War Two
World War II
Road to War 886, War of Movement 891-894, Character of Warfare (science and technology,
holocaust, Home front) 898-904
5. Identify the Axis Powers. What acts of aggression by these countries during the 1930s
moved the world closer to world war?
6. Why did Hitler want to take over European countries such as Austria, Czechoslovakia, and
Poland? What was the motivation behind the aggression of Italy and Japan?
7. How did the western powers – including the League of Nations – respond to Axis
aggression? How do the responses of these powers reflect a policy of appeasement?
8. Describe how Hitler utilized the tactic of blitzkrieg in World War II. How did this tactic
differ from the tactics used in World War I?
9. Describe Hitler’s conquests in both western and Eastern Europe. What strategic error did
Hitler make that Napoleon had also made?
10. Explain how and where the Allies turned the tide against the Axis Powers in 1941-1942 in
North Africa, on the Eastern Front, and in the Pacific.
11. How did the D-Day invasion of France in 1944 lead to the eventual surrender of Germany
in 1945?
12. How was Japan defeated and forced to surrender?
13. What was the Holocaust? Why is Hitler’s “Final Solution” the ultimate example of
genocide?
14. Why was the United Nations created? How was the UN different from the League of
Nations that it replaced? Why did the UN succeed where the League of Nations failed?
15. What is the legacy of World War II? How was the world forever changed by this conflict?
Why is World War II considered a major turning point in history?
Unit Seven Cold War and Beyond
The Cold War
United Nations, Capitalism and Communism, west vs East 936-944 End of Soviet Union
975-978 China Deng and Tiananmen Square 974-975
16. What was the Cold War? How was the Cold War an ideological conflict?
17. For what reasons can the Soviets be blamed for the Cold War? For what reasons can the
United States be blamed for the Cold War?
64. How did each of the following reflect the policy of containment?
a. The Truman Doctrine
b. The Marshall Plan
c. NATO
65. Explain the origin of the term “iron curtain.” Where was the “iron curtain” located?
66. Explain examples of Soviet repression during the Cold War such as the building of the
Berlin Wall and the Soviet response to uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
67. What was the Warsaw Pact? Which countries were members?
68. What were the causes and the outcomes of the Korean War?
69. What were the causes and the outcomes of the Vietnam War?
70. Why did the Soviets invade Afghanistan in 1979? How did the U.S. respond? What was
the outcome of that war? How does that war continue to impact us today?
71. Why and how did communism end in Poland, Hungary and East Germany? Explain the
events that took place in these countries in 1989.
72. Explain the goals and the results of the Gorbachev’s policies of glasnost, perestroika and
democratization. How did these policies help lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union?
73. How did the Cold War end?
74. Identify the following and explain the impact each has had on China’s development since
1945.
a. Mao’s Great Leap Forward
b. Mao’s Cultural Revolution
c, Cult of Mao
d. Normalization of relations with the U.S.
e. Deng Xiaoping’s Four Modernizations
f. Tiananmen Square massacre
Unit VII
The World Since 1945 Decolonization in Africa and Creation of Israel
Decolonization
Israel Balfour Declaration 957-960
75. What is decolonization? What problems have been common to the newly-independent
countries of the developing world?
76.
77. What was the Zionist movement? How did the Balfour Declaration support the goals of
that movement?
78. Explain how the state of Israel was finally established in 1948. What were the immediate
and long-term consequences of that event?
79. How did the creation of the state of Israel affect the Palestinians? What is the major
cause of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict today? What are the unresolved issues preventing a peace
agreement and the establishment of a Palestinian state?
World Geography (Focus on the key countries that have been stressed in this course)
80. Know the locations of the major countries of Europe.
81. Know the locations of the major countries of Asia.
82. Know the locations of the major countries of the Middle East.