World History
Topics Covered
SCHUMACHER
First Quarter
· Review of the Middle Ages: Feudalism and the Crusades
· Renaissance and Reformation
· Scientific Revolution
· Early Exploration and Colonization: The Americas, Asia, and Africa
· The Rise of Nations in Europe
o England, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia
· The Enlightenment
Second Quarter
· The English, American, and French Revolutions
· The European Revolutions of 1830 and 1848
o Backlash and the Congress of Vienna, Liberalism vs. Reactionaries
· The Industrial Revolution and Cultural Revolution
o Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Charles Darwin
· Reaction and Nationalism: Latin America, Germany, Italy
· The Age of Imperialism: India, Africa, Latin America, Modernization of Japan
MIDTERM EXAM
Third Quarter
· World War I and the Aftermath
o Russian Revolution
o Rise of fascism and militarism in Europe
o Wilson’s Fourteen Points and the failures of the League of Nations
o Japanese militarism and aggression in the 1930s
· World War II
o Failure of appeasement
o Strategy of the war leaders on each theater of war
o The US enters the war
o Yalta and Potsdam
o The decision to drop the Atomic Bombs
o Post-war divisions of Europe
· Cold War Europe spreads to the world
o Iron Curtain, Red China, Korea, the Space Race, Cuba, Berlin, détente and the fall of the U.S.S.R.
· Modern Africa
o Years of colonial rule and struggles for independence
o Apartheid in South Africa
o Recent events: Somalia, Rwanda, Darfur
o Potential of African nations and positive developments
Fourth Quarter
· Modern Middle East
o Colonial Era, Balfour Declaration, partition of Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Iran, role of oil as a political tool, The Gulf War, Afghanistan
· Latin America
o Colonial Rule, 1940-1990s: Communist groups vs. non-communist groups, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Archbishop Romero, Chile/Salvador Allende, and Augusto Pinochet, Panama and Manuel Noriega, Venezuela Today
· The Future of the U.S. as a global leader
o Role now that the Cold War is “over?”
o European Union and Euro
o Financial roles/responsibilities
o Mediator in conflict-ridden areas
FINAL EXAM