The syllabus will be a work in progress. Please check often for a new updated version.
Tentative test dates for Period 6: May 3 and May 4
Period 6: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments, c. 1900 to the Present
Key Concept 6.1: Science and the Environment
Part I: Researchers made rapid advances in science that spread throughout the world, assisted by the development of new technology.
Pgs: 760-761, 900-903
Key Terms: Cross-Cultural Exchanges and Global Communications: Consumption and Cultural Interaction, Pan-American Culture, preeminence of the English Language, Adaptations of Technology;
Part II: Humans fundamentally changed their relationship with the environment.
Key Terms: Global Problems: population pressure and climate change: the planet’s carrying capacity, climate change, global warming, population control
Part III: Disease, scientific innovations and conflict led to demographic shifts.
Pgs: 662-663, 907-909
Key Terms: birth control; the causes of poverty, trafficking, Global diseases: HIV/AIDS, AIDS in Africa
Key Concept 6.2: Global Conflicts and Their Consequences
Part I: Europe dominated the global political order at the beginning of the 20th century, but both land-based and transoceanic empires gave way to new forms of transregional political organization by the century’s end.
Pgs: 707-724, 781-784, 814-816, 873-877
Key Terms: 707-724: The Ottoman Empire in Decline: Territorial Losses, Economic Difficulties, The Reforms of Mahmud II; The Young Turk Era, The Young Turks, (read the Proclamation of the Young Turks); The Russian Empire under pressure: Military Defeat and Social Reform, The Crimean War, Emancipation of the Serfs, Industrialization, The Witte system, Count Sergei Witte, Repression and Revolution, The Revolution of 1905; The Chinese Empire Under Siege: Opium Trade and War, Unequal Treaties, Taiping Rebellion, Taiping Program, Taiping Defeat, The Self-Strengthening Movement, Spheres of Influence, The Hundred Days Reforms, The Boxer Rebellion. 781-784: The Paris Settlement, Wilson’s Fourteen Points, The League of Nations, Self-Determination, and The Mandate System. 814-816: India’s Quest for Home Rule, Indian National Congress, Mohandas Gandhi, The India Act. 873-877: Decolonization in Africa: Forcing the French out of North Africa, France in Africa, War in Algeria, Frantz Fanon, Growth of African Nationalism, Négritude, African Independence, Freedom and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa, Ghana, Kenya.
I. Europe dominated the global political order at the beginning of the 20th century, but both land-based and transoceanic empires gave way to new states by the century’s end.
A. The older, land-based Ottoman, Russian, and Qing empire collapsed due to a combination of internal and external factors
1. Ottoman Empire
2. Russian Empire
3. Qing Empire
***Make notes from your reading (pgs. 707-724) to identify the internal and external factors that led to the collapse of the three Empires noted above.
April 17 & 18
Part II: Emerging ideologies of anti-imperialism contributed to the dissolution of empires.
Pgs: 824-825, 867-871, 882-883, 884-886
Key Terms: Read “Africa for Africans, W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey; Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Jawaharlal Nehru, Partition and Violence, Bandung Conference, Ho Chi Minh, “Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Need for Muslim Pakistan, The Geneva Conference, Vietnam’s “American War,” Vietnamese Victory; Islamic Resurgence in Southwest Asia and North Africa, Islamism, jihad, the Iranian Revolution, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein, the Iran-Iraq War; Politics and Economics in Latin America, Mexico, Argentina, Juan Perón, Evita, Guatemala and Nicaragua, Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán, Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, Anastacio Somoza Garcia, Augusto Cesar Sandino, Sandinista Front for National Liberation, Contras.
April 19 & 20
Part III: Political changes were accompanied by major demographic and social consequences.
Pgs: 777, 784-785, 850-852 ,867, 868, 919, 921
Key Terms: Armenian Massacre; Map 33.2, “Memo of the General Syrian Congress;” The Holocaust, The Final Solution, Einsatzgruppen, Wannsee Conference, Auschwitz, Jewish Resistance, “We will never speak about it in public,” Map 36.3 (note the difference between Concentration Camp and Extermination Camp locations.)