QUARTER 3 TOPICS:

Industrial Revolution

  • Origins of Industrial Revolution – country, $$$
  • Impact of inventions/innovations on farming
  • Importance of coal
  • Steam engine
  • Creation of factories/origins
  • Factories and conditions
  • Marxism and social equality
  • Unions
  • Social classes and perception
  • Connection between factories, immigrants and tenements
  • Technological improvements within cities/hygiene
  • Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution

Imperialism

  • Industrial demands and link to global imperialism
  • Social Darwinism
  • Impact on MAIN concepts – political, economic
  • Leaders of imperialism – origins, turn of century
  • Concept of “westernization”
  • Nationalist ideologies under imperialism

WWI

  • Alliances
  • Impact of modern technology on war
  • Importance of war on global involvement
  • Women’s role during war and impact of technology follow the war
  • Result of WWI
  • Feelings/mentality following the war – culturally
  • Technological impact on society
  • Russian Revolution – cause, impact, make-up of communism, Stalin’s rise, 5-year plans (purpose/effect)
  • Propaganda influences
  • Self-determination around the world - India

Great Depression

  • Cause and impact
  • Rise of extreme nationalism/dictators/militarism
  • Influence of government on people

Images

  • Factory perception from workers, consumer and first factories…
  • Imperialism – superior vs. inferior, “westernization” of the world
  • WWI – MAIN, school yard fight
  • Great Depression – common impact on citizens, effected everyone

QUARTER 4 TOPICS:

World War II

  • ideas behind Fascism
  • Hitler's usage of Great Depression
  • influence of Nazi propaganda
  • goals of Nazism
  • appeasement
  • 1940 Battle of Britain
  • 1941 Operation Barbarossa
  • 1941 Pearl Harbor
  • 1942 Battle of Midway
  • 1944 D-Day
  • Holocaust
  • 1945 Battle for Berlin
  • impact WWII had on Axis and Allied powers

Post-War Era

  • Why imperialism ended following WWII? (Cold War Background Sheet)
  • transition between WWII military production and post-war economic revival (Cold War Background Sheet)
  • self-determination and democracy following WWII (Cold War Background Sheet)
  • rise of communism following WWII and communist tactics to gain power (Cold War Background Sheet)
  • reasons for global interdependence following WWII (Cold War Background Sheet)
  • impact of population growth on new, developing nations (Cold War Background Sheet)
  • urbanization (city life) impact on traditional culture (Cold War Background Sheet)
  • impact of technology on the world (Cold War Background Sheet)
  • global trade and its results on economic competition (Cold War Background Sheet)

Cold War

  • Cold War superpowers and "carrot and sticks" policy (Cold War Background Sheet)
  • proxy wars (Cold War Background Sheet)
  • goal of democracy during the Cold War (Cold War Background Sheet)

Cold War - Europe

  • capitalism vs. command economies (Cold War notes)
  • *** Germany's reunitification in 1989 (after the fall of the Berlin Wall) resulted from the eventual collaspe of the Soviet Union in 1991 (will be covered in class)
  • *** The development of the European Union showed that the economic power of the USA and Soviet Union was in competition with those of Europe (ch 33 sec 1)

Cold War - Middle East

  • Causes of the Persian Gulf Wars (ch 35 sec 4)
  • Reason for the continued conflict between the Palestinians and Jews (ch 35 sec 4)
  • goal of the Iranian Revolution (ch 35 sec 3)
  • terrorism in the world
  • purpose behind a revival of Islam in the Middle East (ch 35 sec 3)
  • importance of oil and its impact on world economies (ch 35 sec 2)

Cold War - South Asia

  • India and population growth (ch 35 sec 1)
  • Pakistan's and India's supporters during the Cold War (ch 35 sec 1)

Cold War - East Asia

  • How Mao Zedong came to power in China (ch 34 sec 2)
  • influence of Cold War on regionally poor countries (Cold War notes)
  • differance between North and South Korea (ch 34 sec 3)
  • goal of Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam (Cold War notes)
  • situation in Vietnam following the Vietnam War (Cold War notes)
  • importance of the Pacific Rim (ch 34 sec 4)

Cold War - Africa

  • reasons which caused nationalism to grow in Africa after WWII (Cold War notes)
  • How did most African nations gain their independence? (Cold War notes)
  • ethnic differances in Africa and resulting civil wars (ch 36 sec 1)

Cold War - Latin America

  • impact financial equality had on the development of Latin American conflicts (ch 37 sec 1)
  • dirty wars (Cold War notes)

Globalization

  • connnection between world-wide trade and globalization (Cold War notes)

WRITTEN RESPONSE QUESTIONS: (BE PREPARED TO ANSWER ALL THREE (3) QUESTIONS…)

Explain how the Industrial Revolution changed history. Describe how two (2) specific inventions or innovation helped to transform modern society and explain how. (6 points – 1 for each example/2 for evidence)

How did the world wars effect the development of the 20th Century? Choose two (2) examples and explain your answer with historical evidence. (6 points – 1 point for each example/2 for evidence)

How did the Cold War impact the development of the relationships among nations of the world? Choose two (2) countries and explain how the Cold War affected their relationship with one another. (6 points for the explanation)