World Civilizations 2

World Civilizations 2

HIS 102 Summer 2010

Times: MWF 9:40-11:10 TT 10:20-12:30

Location: LAB 101

Kevin Dougherty

The University of Southern Mississippi

Phone: 601-266-4455 (better to email than leave a voice message)

Email:

Website http://ocean.otr.usm.edu/~w416373 (however, syllabus supersedes website)

Office: Rm 449 Liberal Arts Building (College of Arts and Letters)

OBJECTIVE: This course is designed to examine some of the most important events and trends in the second half of World History and will be thematic in nature. As travel, communications, technology, trade, and populations expand, societies and civilizations exchange a variety of entities. The overall phenomenon is called “globalization” which some perceive as positive, others negative. Those who favor globalization point to greater mobility, opportunity, and exchange. Those against globalization fear exploitation and the increased irrelevance of their own societal, national, and cultural identity. The course will analyze this broad topic of globalization using four basic blocks that address specific themes. These themes are economics, trade, and technology; government; war and empire through World War II; and war and empire after World War II.

TEXTS: Upshur, Terry, Holoka, Goff, and Cassar, World History, Compact Fourth Edition

History Dept, University of Southern Mississippi, Envisioning World Civilizations

GRADING:

90 to 100 A

80 to 89 B

70 to 79 C

60 to 69 D

Below 60 F

Mid-term Exam 260 points

Map Quizzes (2 at 20 points each) 40 points

In Class Writing Assignments (2 at 100 pts each) 200 points

In Class Writing Assignments (2 at 50 pts each) 100 points

Final Exam 300 points

Attendance/Participation 100 points

The mid-term exam will be a combination of Identify and State the Significance (ID & SIG) Terms, Short Answers, and Essay. The map quizzes will require the student to identify the location of selected places and ID & SIGs on a blank world map. The in-class writing assignments will be from the Envisioning World Civilizations book and will focus on analysis of primary sources.

Attendance/Participation grade will be based on the following:

0-1  absence 100 points

2 absences 90 points

3 absences 80 points

4 absences 70 points

5 absences 60 points

6 absences 50 points

7 absences 40 points

8 absences 30 points

9 absences 20 points

10 absences 10 points

more than 10 absences 0 points

This scale assumes full participation and proper behavior in class. Points will be deducted for failure to participate or follow classroom rules.

The final exam will be comprehensive and will be a combination of ID & SIGs and Short Answer.

SCHEDULE:

Introduction.

Lsn 1 June 30: During this lesson we will go over the syllabus and the course requirements, identify the learning objectives, and outline the semester.

Block 1

Trade, Technology, and Economics. During this block we will gain an understanding of how trade, technology, and economics have advanced globalization. As people began to explore the world, often motivated by the desire to trade, various societies began to interact and exchange. Improvements in technology allowed societies to efficiently transform the raw materials they gained by trade into finished products. This new technology also radically altered ways of life, in many cases threatening traditional standards. Some people embraced these changes and others viewed them as threats. Various approaches to economic development reflected these diverging views. Today, we have a truly global economy which again creates opportunity as well as tension among the world’s traditional ways of life.

Lsn 2 July 1: (Upshur, 489-505, 514-523)

European Exploration ID & SIG: Columbian Exchange, conquistadors, de Gama, global trade, joint-stock companies, motives for European explorations, Seven Years’ War, smallpox, trading posts, volta do mar

Lsn 3 July 2 Early European Colonization of the New World (Upshur, 673-689) ID & SIG: audiencias, engenho, fur trade, hacienda, indentured servant, Jamestown, mestizo, Portuguese colonial administration, Potosi, repartimiento, slavery in the New World, Spanish colonial administration, Treaty of Tordesillas, viceroys

Lsn 4 July 6: (Upshur, 593-603)

Science and Enlightenment ID & SIG: Copernicus, Enlightenment, Galileo, Kepler, Locke, Montesquieu, Newton, philosophes, scientific revolution, Smith, Voltaire

Lsn 5 July 7: (Upshur, 490-496)

Atlantic Slave Trade ID & SIG: African diaspora, Emancipation Proclamation, Equiano, impact of slave trade in Africa, middle passage, Saint Dominique revolt, slavery in North America, triangular trade, Wesley, Wilberforce

Lsn 6 July 8: (Upshur, 601-602, 633-636, 689-693)

Part 1: Capitalism

Part 2: Industrialization

ID & SIG: assembly lines, capitalism, factories, guild system, impact of industrialization on society, interchangeable parts, mass production, mechanization of the cotton industry, monopolies, putting-out system, Watt

Lsn 7 July 9: (Upshur, 694-702, 775-777)

Part 1: Socialism

Part 2: Global Depression ID & SIG: Black Thursday, causes of the Great Depression, communism, Crash of 1929, Engels, Keynes, Marx, New Deal, proletariat, Smoot-Hawley Tariff, socialism, trade unions, utopians

Lsn 8 July 12: In Class Writing Assignment (100 points)

Testimony for the Factory Act (12.15 page 435)

Block 2

Government. During this block, we will examine how people have organized themselves into governments and what motivated them to select the governments they did. We will see that often times these decisions have a basis in global events, such as the influence of the Enlightenment on the American Revolution, the influence of the American Revolution on the French Revolution, and the influence of capitalism and the Great Depression on the Russian Revolution, fascism, and National Socialism. Finally we will explore how globalization affects our traditional concept of nation-state government by the rise of international and nongovernmental organizations.

Lsn 9 July 13: (Upshur, 621-627, 646-664)

Democracy: American and French Revolutions ID & SIG: American Revolution, ancien regime, Bastille, Bill of Rights, Civil Code, Concordat, Convention, Declaration of Independence, Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen, Directory, Estates General, French Revolution, guillotine, levee en masse, Napoleon, National Assembly, no taxation without representation, Robespierre, Rousseau, Waterloo

Hand out mid-term exam study guide.

Lsn 10 July 14: (Upshur, 814-824, 854-859)

Part 1: Russian Revolution and Communism

Part 2: Fascism and National Socialism

ID & SIG: anti-Semitism, Bolsheviks, communism, fascism, Five-Year Plan, Great Purge, Hitler, Lenin, Mussolini, National Socialist Party (Nazis), Russian Revolution, Stalin

Lsn 11 July 15: In Class Writing Assignment (100 points)

Declaration of Independence (11.18 page 383)

Lsn 12 July 16: Mid-term Exam

Block 3

War and Empire through World War II. An empire is a political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority. Comparative Essay 4 on pages 219-222 of the Upshur text notes that empires “have a natural life span like individuals.” They are born, they grow, they suffer setbacks, and they ultimately pass away. Empires compete against each other just as individuals do. This competition may take a variety of forms including diplomatic, informational, military, and economic. Nationalism and militarism fueled this competition in the 19th Century and manifested themselves in the two world wars in the 20th Century. As Comparative Essay 10 notes on pages 718-719, World War I and World War II elevated war to a new level involving the great increase in the power of the state to exercise control over all aspects of national life. They were total wars requiring the belligerents to mobilize all their resources, both human and material, for the purpose of waging war. World War II would leave the world divided into two armed camps—one communist and one democratic—and initiate a new type of war characterized as the Cold War.

Lsn 13 July 19: (Upshur, 439-443, 452-463, 791-793)

Map Quiz #1 Brazil, Cape Horn, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Verde Islands, Caribbean Sea, Dahomey, France, Germany, Gran Colombia, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Saint Dominique (Haiti), Sao Tome, United Nations Headquarters

Islamic Empires ID & SIG: capitulation, ghazi, Iran-Iraq War, Iranian Revolution, Mahmud II, Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk), Ottoman decline, Ottoman Empire, Safavid Empire, “Sick Man of Europe,” tanzimat, Young Turks

Lsn 14 July 20: (Upshur, 625-627, 668-671, 681-684, 797-800)

Building of American States ID & SIG: Bolivar, caudillos, Dominion of Canada, French and British Canadians, Indian Removal, La Reforma, Latin American foreign dependence, Manifest Destiny, Mexican Revolution, Mexican (-American) War, Transcontinental railroads (US and Canada), US Civil War

Lsn 15 July 21: (Upshur, 524-570, 861-864)

China and Japan ID & SIG: Boxer Rebellion, Great Wall, Meiji (Motsuhito), Ming Dynasty, Opium War, Perry, Rape of Nanjing, Russo-Japanese War, Qing Dynasty, Tokugawa Shogunate, Twenty-one Demands, unequal treaties

Lsn 16 July 22: (Upshur, 720-748, 852-853)

Imperialism ID & SIG: Berlin Conference, Boer War, British in India, concessionary companies, Congo Free State, direct rule, French Indochina, Imperial Japan, imperialism, indirect rule, Monroe Doctrine, Panama Canal, Rhodes, Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, Spanish-American War, White Man’s Burden

Lsn 17 July 23: (Upshur, 749-775)

World War I ID & SIG: Archduke Ferdinand, causes of World War I, Fourteen Points, League of Nations, Schlieffen Plan, Treaty Entende, Treaty of Versailles, trench warfare, Triple Alliance, unrestricted submarine warfare

Lsn 18 July 24: (Upshur, 864-887)

World War II ID & SIG: appeasement, blitzkrieg, Casablanca Conference, Dunkirk, Maginot Line, Operation Barbarossa, , “soft underbelly”, Eisenhower, Italian Campaign, Normandy (Operation Overlord), Ultra, “Germany First,” Hiroshima and Nagasaki, holocaust, MacArthur, Pearl Harbor, post-war impact of the atomic bomb, roles of women during and after WWII

Block 4:

War and Empire after World War II. The prospect of nuclear war made a direct superpower confrontation too catastrophic to risk so the US and the USSR waged the military aspect of the Cold War largely through proxies. Nonetheless, the Cold War dominated nearly all aspects of the bipolar world. Eventually, the capitalist economy of the US prevailed over the communist one of the USSR, and the Cold War ended with the collapse of the Soviet Union and its empire. For a brief interlude, international cooperation appeared possible as a coalition force repulsed Iraqi aggression in Kuwait. Quickly, however, nationalism and ethnic tension that had been restrained by the Cold War erupted anew and overwhelmed international efforts to contain it. With the US as the world’s only superpower, the impact of America on global society became more pronounced—a development viewed as a threat to some. The predictable Cold War threat gave way to the volatile and unstable threat of global terrorism and the prospect of a “clash of civilizations.”

Lsn 19 July 27: (Upshur, 867-896, 916-918)

Early Cold War ID & SIG: Berlin Airlift, Berlin Wall, Chaing Kai-Shek, Cold War, Communist China, containment, Greek Civil War, Iron Curtain, Kennan, Mao Zedong, Marshall Plan, NATO, Red Scare/McCarthyism, space race, Sputnik, Truman Doctrine, Warsaw Pact

In-class Writing Assignment (50 points)

Mein Kampf (15.1 page 505)

Hand out final exam study guide

Lsn 20 July 28: Map Quiz #2 (Upshur, 918-920, 924, 929-933)

Part 1: Map Quiz Berlin, Boer War, Congo Free State, Cuba, Greece, Hiroshima, India, Italy, Korea, Libya, Normandy, Panama Canal, Pearl Harbor, Philippines, Russia, Sicily, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey, Vietnam

Part 2: Korea and Cuba ID & SIG: Bay of Pigs, Castro, Chinese intervention in Korea, Cuban Missile Crisis, Executive Order 9981, hollow Army, Inchon, Korean War, relief of MacArthur, Task Force Smith

Lsn 21 July 29: (Upshur, 920-922)

Vietnam ID & SIG: attrition warfare, Cronkite, Diem, Dien Bien Phu, domino theory, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh Trail, Kent State, Mao’s phases of guerrilla war warfare, limited war, pacification, Tet Offensive, Viet Cong (National Liberation Front), Vietnam syndrome

In-class Writing Assignment (50 points)

“On Vietnam” (16.5 page 549)

Lsn 22 July 30: Final Exam. The final exam will be comprehensive and will focus on the four themes presented throughout the course.

OFFICE HOURS: Except on rare occasions, I will be in my office from 11:30 to 12:30 MW for walk-ins and would be happy to meet with you by appointment at other times.

ACADEMIC HONESTY: Refer to the Student Handbook and Undergraduate Bulletin for specific guidance on academic honesty and plagiarism. Suffice it to say that any representation of another’s work as your own or other form of cheating will not be tolerated and may result in getting an F for the work involved or in the course as well as other disciplinary action to include probation, suspension, and/or expulsion.

CLASSROOM CONDUCT: The goal is to have an environment that facilitates learning, respects both students and the instructor, and fosters an atmosphere of civility and proper decorum. Students who create disturbances by arriving late, talking, having cell phones ring, engaging in activities unrelated to the academic subject matter, interrupting, distracting other students, being rude, or any other conduct inappropriate for a learning environment will be told to leave the classroom and will receive an F for that day’s grade.

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