Pentucket Regional High School

Teacher Dziedziak Subject Survey of World History

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Assessment

September

· What were the underlying causes of the French Revolution?

· Did Napoleon’s rule uphold the values of the French Revolution?

· How did the growth of nationalism, industrialism, and imperialism lead to world conflict?

Unit One:The French Revolution and Napoleon

· The Estates System

· Declaration of the Rights of Man

· Reign of Terror

· Age of Napoleon

· Congress of Vienna

Unit Two: Development of Modern Nation State

· Industrialization, Reform and Progress

· Determine whether Napoleon upheld the values of the Revolution

· Understand connections between nationalism, industrialization, and imperialism

· Quizzes

· Map Activity

· SuperQuiz! ^TM

· Nat., Ind., and Imp. game

· Test

October

· How did the assassination of Franz Ferdinand lead to the deaths of countless millions across the globe?

· What conditions during WWI led to advent of total war?

· How did the development of new technology affect the tactics and strategy of WWI?

Unit Two Cont.

· Rise of Nationalism and Revolution

· Imperialism

Unit Three: World War I

· Alliance System

· Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

· Modern Warfare

· Western Front

· Eastern Front

· Wartime Society

· Treaty of Versailles

· League of Nations

· Describe the impact of nat., ind., and imp. on people around the world.

· Analyze the conflicts that arise from above topics.

· Describe the breakdown of the alliance system.

· Understand the aspects of modern warfare and how it influenced the course of WWI.

· Analyze primary documents pertaining to WWI.

· Understand and analyze films such as Gallipoli and Paths of Glory.

· Michael Collins Essay

· Quizzes

· Test

· WWI Newspaper

· Map Analysis

November

· Why was Communism appealing to the people of Russia and China?

· What were the conditions in Russia that allowed for the success of the Bolshevik Revolution?

· How did Josef Stalin gain control of the Communist party following the death of Vladimir Lenin?

Unit Four: Comm. Revolutions

· Czarist Russia

· Lenin and Bolshevik Revolution

· Russian Civil War

· Lenin’s Heirs- Stalin and Trotsky

· Stalinism

· Sun Yixian and the Kuomintang

· May Fourth Movement

· Rise of Chinese Communists

· Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong

· Understand the origins and principles of Communism

· Summarize the failures of Czar Nicholas II

· Describe the life and times of one Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

· Read and analyze sections of George Orwell’s 1984 and relate it to authoritarian rule in Russia and China

· Create video presentation of unit using reality television shows as a model.

· SuperQuiz! ^TM

· Topic Quizzes

December

· What conditions in China forced Mao to rely on the Chinese peasantry as the backbone of the Chinese Communist movement?

· Why do historians refer to the time following WWI as the Age of Anxiety?

· How did the worldwide Depression of the 1930s lead to the rise of fascism in Germany?

Unit Four: continued…

· Chinese Civil War

· Maoist China

Unit Four: Inter-War Period and the Rise of Fascism

· Age of Uncertainty

· Depression

· Describe the successes and failures of the Chinese Communist Party

· Describe the scientific, artistic, and artistic movements associated with the Age of Anxiety.

· Explain the causes of the global Depression.

· Quiz

· Test

· Art research activity

January

· How did the failure of the Paris Peace Conference set the stage for future international conflict that cost the lives of countless millions around the world?

· What historical factors led to the development and expansion of pre-WWII

Unit Five: continued…

· Mussolini and Italian Fascism

· Weimar Republic

· Hitler and Nazism

· Appeasement

· Analyze the differences and similarities between fascism and communism.

· Explain the process by which Hitler consolidated his power

· Understand the causes and failures of appeasement.

· Test

· 60 Minutes News Broadcast

· SuperQuiz! ^TM

· Map Activity

February

· How did more destructive forms of technology affect the course of the war and cause the deaths of countless millions?

· What social, economic, and ideological conditions allowed the Holocaust to take place?

· What role did mustaches play in the development of Stalin’s and Hitler’s totalitarian systems?

Unit Six: WWII

· Blitzkrieg and Invasion of Poland

· Fall of France

· Battle of Britain

· Operation Barbarossa

· Pearl Harbor and the Japanese Victories in Pacific

· Holocaust

· Understand how new technology allowed Hitler to quickly defeat Poland and France

· Analyze historical anti-Semitism and its influence on Nazi ideology.

· Watch and analyze Schindler’s List.

· Essay on Schindler’s List

· SuperQuiz! ^TM

· Quizzes

March

· How did Stalingrad, the invasion of Italy, D-Day, and Battle of the Bulge contribute to the downfall of Nazi Germany?

· How did wartime and postwar conditions lead to increasing tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States?

· What was the relationship between the Soviet Union and its satellite nations of Eastern Europe?

Unit Six: continued…

· North Africa, Stalingrad, Invasion of Italy

· D-Day and Battle of the Bulge

· Germany Surrenders

· Collapse of Japan

· Hiroshima and Nagasaki

· Postwar Japan and Germany

Unit Seven: Cold War

· Expansion of Soviet Influence

· Nuclear Diplomacy

· Describe the major turning points of World War II in Europe and the Pacific.

· Explain how the Allies rebuilt the war ravaged nations of Japan and Germany

· Understand the Soviet reluctance to a unified Germany

· Test

· Map Activity

April

· How did the collapse of the British Empire lead to conflict on the Indian subcontinent?

· How were many authoritarian regimes able to dominate in Latin America?

· How did the conflict in Bosnia and Albania become an international cause?

· How are many African nations dealing with the impact of European imperialism?

Unit Seven: continued…

· Failure of International Communism

· Collapse of the Soviet Union

Unit Eight: Conflict, Challenge, and the Struggle for Democracy

· Bosnia

· Latin America

· India and Pakistan

· Post-Imperial Africa

· Explain the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union

· Understand how the fall of the Soviet Union led to a rejuvenation of ethnic conflict in Bosnia

· Explain how Latin American nations struggled with authoritarian rule on the road to democracy

· Analyze the causes of the Indian-Pakistani conflict

· Understand the problems many African nations had with the collapse of European colonial rule

· SuperQuiz! ^TM

· Test

· Group Activity

May

· Why do three major religions view the Middle East region as a Holy land?

· What historical factors and conditions led to the establishment of the state of Israel?

· What caused a growth of Islamic fundamentalism in the second half of the 20^th century?

Unit Nine: Middle East and the Islamic World

· Judaism, Christianity and Islam

· Creation of Middle Eastern Nation States

· Foundation of Israel

· Arab-Israeli Conflict

· Islamic Fundamentalism and Terrorism

· Afghanistan and the Taliban

· Describe how previous wars set the conditions for the Arab-Israeli conflict

· Understand the reasons for the creation of a Jewish state within British Palestine

· Analyze the causes of the spread of Islamic fundamentalism

· Quizzes

· Group Project

June

· What is the difficulty inherent in applying terms such as terrorist, freedom fighter, and insurgent?

· How does the existence of oil affect the social and political conditions of Middle Eastern states?

· International Terrorist Networks

· The “War on Terror”

· Analyze the roots of modern terrorism and the goals of the “War on Terror”

· Test