1. Questions of periodization

 

A.     Continuities and breaks

 

B.     Causes of changes from the previous period and within this period

2. War and peace in a global context

A.     World War I

i.                    

Background Causes of WWI

ii.                   Immediate Cause of WWI

iii.                 Nature and significance of warfare in WWI

iv.                 New Technologies in WWI

v.                   Colonial soldiers in the First World War

vi.                 Paris Peace Conference

vii.                Treaty of Versailles

B.     World War II

i.                     Origins of WWII

ii.                   Pacific Theater in WWII

a.      Japanese Invasion of China

b.       Rape of Nanking

c.       Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

d.       Reasons for using Atomic Bomb

e        US Occupation of Japan

iii.                  European Theater

a.       Nazi-Soviet (Molotov-Ribbentrop) Pact

b.       Blitzkrieg

c.       The Holocaust

d.       Results

C.     The Cold War

i.                     Definition of Cold War

ii.                  Origins of Cold War

iii.                 Nuclear Arms Race

iv.                 spheres of influence

v.                   Truman Doctrine

vi.                 Marshall Plan

vii.                North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

viii.              Warsaw Pact

ix.              Geneva Conference

x.                   Detente

D.     Containment of Communism

i.                     Korean War

ii.                  

Cuban Revolution and Missile Crisis

iii.                  Vietnam War

E.      International organizations and their effects on the global framework

i.                      globalization of diplomacy and conflict

ii.                   global balance of power

iii.                   reduction of European influence

iv.                  the League of Nations (Mandate System)

v.                    the United Nations

vi.                  the Nonaligned Nations

vii.                European Community

viii.              Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs)

3. New patterns of nationalism

A.     Fascism

i.                    Adolf Hitler: Rise to Power

ii.                   Adolf Hitler at War

iii.                  Benito Mussolini

B.     Decolonization

C.     India

i.                     Indian National Congress

ii.                   Mohandas Gandhi: Early Years

iii.                  Mohandas Gandhi: Indian Nationalist

iv.                 Indian Independence/Partitioning

D.     China

i.                     Chinese Civil War

ii.                   Mao Zedong

iii.             Great Leap forward

iv.                  Cultural Revolution

v.                 Deng Xiaoping

E.      Soviet Union

i.                     Joseph Stalin (include Socialism in one country)

ii.                   Soviet Five-Year Plans

iii.                  Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

iv.             Mikhail Gorbachev and his policies

v.                   Iron Curtin: Demise

vi.                 The breakup of the Soviet Union

F.      Racism

G.    

Genocide

H.     Arab Nationalism

       i.               Nassar and Pan-Arabism

i.                     Iranian Revolution

ii.                   Iran-Iraq War

I.        Creation of Israel (Intifada)

J.       Africa

i.                    Pan-Africanism

ii.                   Jomo Kenyatta

iii.                  South Africa

a.       Apartheid

b. Nelson Mandela

4.  Effects of major global economic developments

A.     Age of Anxiety

B.   The Great Depression in Latin America

C.     New Deal

D.     Technology

E.      Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

F.      Pacific Rim (Asian Tigers or Dragons)

G.     Multinational corporations

H.     Persian Gulf War (1991)

5. New forces of revolution and other sources of political innovations

     A. 20th century social revolutions

     B. 20th century women's movement

     C.20th century Civil Rights movement

6.  Social reform and social revolution

A.     Changing gender roles

B.     Family Structures

C.     Rise of feminism

D.     Peasant protest

E.      International Marxism

i.                 

Russian Revolution (March 1917)

ii.                October (Bolshevik) Revolution

iii.               V. I. Lenin and his form of Marxism

iv.              War Communism

v.                New Economic Policy (NEP)

F.      Religious fundamentalism

        1. Failure of Pan-Arabism and rise of Islamicism

 

7.  Globalization of science, technology, and culture 

 

A.Developments in global cultures and regional reactions, including science and consumer culture

 

B. Interactions between elite and popular culture and art

 

C. Patterns of resistance including religious responses

8.  Demographic and environmental changes

A.     20th Century Migrations

B.     Changes in birthrates and death rates

C.     New forms of urbanization

D.     Deforestation

E.      Green/environmental movements

F.      Rural to urban shifts

9.   Compare patterns and results of decolonization in Africa and India

10.  Compare the effects of two revolutions on the role of women:

A. Russian and Chinese

B. Russian and Cuban

C. Russian and Iranian

D. Chinese and Cuban

E.  Chinese and Iranian

F.  Cuban and Iranian

11.   Compare the effects of the World Wars on areas outside of Europe

 

12.   Compare legacies of colonialism and patterns of economic development between:

A.     Africa and Asia

B.     Africa and Latin America

C.     Asia and Latin America

13.  Analyze nationalist ideologies and movements in contrasting European and colonial environments

 

14.   Compare the different types of independence struggles

15.   Examine global interactions in cultural arenas

A.     Reggae

B.     Art

C.     Sports

16.  Analyze the global effects of the Western consumer society

 

17.  Compare major forms of twentieth-century warfare

 

18.  Assess different proposals (or models) for economic growth in the developing world and the social and political consequences