Nationalism and Imperialism 1840-1914

Nationalism and Imperialism 1840-1914

Subject:7th Grade Social Studies Essential Standards
Unit 3
Unit Title: Era of Global Wars (1840-1945 A.D.) / Timeframe: 9 weeks
Grading Period: 3rd 9 weeks
Dates of Completion:
Suggested Understandings:
  • Nationalism and Imperialism 1840-1914
  • The role of language, foreign invaders, governments and history, and culture and their effects on Nationalism.
  • Nationalism in Italy: Giuseppe Mazzini, Camillo di Cavour, Giuseppe Garibaldi.
  • The unification of Germany: German Confederation, Frederick Wilhelm IV, Otto von Bismarck, Austria-Hungary Empire,
Franco-Prussian War, and the Second Reich.
  • Imperialism and Colonialism. The Industrial Revolutions impact on Imperialism: need for raw materials, natural resources,& markets.
  • Connections of nationalism, imperialism, and industrial revolution.
  • Effects of Imperialism on Asia: British East India Company, French Indochina, British control of Burma, Ceylon, Malaya, & Singapore.
  • Europeans forced China to give them special trade rights, spheres of influence.
  • Japan develops western style army and uses new military power to become imperialistic.
  • European imperialism in Africa.
  • Europeans treatment of native people and lack of respect for native cultures.
  • Impact of World War I
  • Economic causes, political causes, major events and key leaders of World War I.
  • New warfare techniques and Alliances.
  • Explain the outcomes and global effect of the war and the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations.
  • The Russian Revolution and the communist state 1905-1939
  • Describe the reforms of the Czars, Industrial Revolution changes Russia, Russian Revolution of 1905.
  • Socialism, Karl Marx, Bolsheviks, Lenin, Communism and changes in Russia, USSR, and Soviet Union under Stalin.
  • Inter War Period
  • Failure of the League of Nations and mandate system.
  • Causes and assessing impact of worldwide depression in the 1930s.
  • Revolutions and the Rise of Dictators 1911-1938
  • Examine events related to the rise, aggression, and human costs of dictatorial regimes in the Soviet Union, Germany, Italy, and Japan and identifying their major leaders (Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Hirohito, and Hideki Tojo).
  • Italy: Benito Mussolini, Fascist Party
  • Germany: Adolf Hitler, Nazis, swastika, Reichstag, Gestapo, Depression hits Germany.
  • China: Sun Yat Sen, Chiang Kai Shek, Mao Zedong.
  • Japan: General Hideki Tojo
  • Impact of World War II
  • Economic and political causes, major events and battles, and leaders (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, George C. Marshall, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Hideki Tojo, and Hirohito).
  • List members of the Axis Powers and the Allies.
  • Holocaust and other examples of Genocide in the twentieth century
  • Terms of peace, war crimes trials, division of Europe, rebuilding Germany and Japan, creation of international cooperative organizations.
  • The Aftermath of WWII 1945-1955
  • Social, economic, and political results of World War II.
  • Creation of the United Nations.
  • Terms of Peace, war crimes trails, rebuilding the east, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, NATO.
  • Impact of the Holocaust.
  • Causes and results of the Korean War & General MacArthur

Curriculum Goals/Objectives:
  • 7.H.1.1-3:Use historical thinking to analyze various modern societies.
  • 7.H.2.1-3: Understand the implications of global interactions.
  • 7.G.1.1-2: Understand how geography, demographic trends, and environmental conditions shape modern societies and regions.
  • 7.G.2.1-2: Apply the tools of a geographer to understand modern societies and regions.
  • 7.E.1.1: Understand the economic activities of modern societies and regions.
  • 7.C&G.1.1-4: Understand the development of government in modern societies and regions.
  • 7.C.1.1: Explain how culture unties and divides modern societies and regions (religious conflict)
/ Suggested Essential Questions:
• Explain the ideas of nationalism and imperialism.
• Why did the spread of industrialism to Europe & the US accelerate colonialism and imperialism?
  • List some characteristics of nationalism.
  • How did nationalism and democracy influence national revolutions?
  • Identify leaders of Italian unification.
  • Explain how Germany became a unified nation.
  • Explain the reasons behind imperialism.
  • Describe the effects of imperialism on Asia and Africa.
  • What were the factors that produced World War I?
  • Describe how the alliance system contributed to World War I.
  • Identify the major countries of the Central Powers and the Allies.
  • Describe the role the United States played in WWI.
  • What were the outcomes and global effects of World War I?
  • What were the terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
  • What was the League of Nations and why did it fail?
  • Why did Russia erupt in revolution while fighting in World War I?
  • Describe life in czarist Russia.
  • List the causes and effects of Russia’s Revolution on 1905.
  • Define socialism and the influence of Karl Marx.
  • Describe the changes Lenin and Communism brought to Russia.
  • Describe life in the Soviet Union under communism and Stalin.
  • Why did the world experience depression in the 1930s and what political changes resulted from the depression?
  • What factors influenced the rise of dictatorial governments after World War I?
  • Explain how the Nazis gained power in Germany.
  • Describe how military leaders gained power in Japan.
  • What were the causes of World War II?
  • List the countries that fought in the War.
  • List the members of the Axis of Power and the Allies.
  • Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?
  • Why did the Holocaust occur?
  • What are other examples of genocide in the 20th century?
  • Why did Harry Truman decide to use the atomic bomb?
  • Describe the social, economic, and political results of World War II?
  • Describe the makeup and goals of the United Nations.
  • Describe America’s role in rebuilding war-torn Europe.
  • What were the international cooperative organizations created after World War II?
  • Describe the causes of the Korean War and the role of General MacArthur.

Suggested Essential Vocabulary: / Suggested Assessment Tasks:
  • Timed Writing (one page, three paragraphs, 30 min.) explaining the causes, outcomes, and consequences of World War I.
  • Write a one-page RAFT on a topic relating to the World War II era. Use the chart on the link to choose the role, audience, format and topic.

Nationalism
Imperialism
Colonialism
Spheres of Influence
Alliance
Unification
Allied Powers
Central Powers
Propaganda
Trench warfare
Armistice
Reparations
Treaty of Versailles
Socialism
Bolshevik
Communism / Czar
League of Nations
Mandate System
Dictator
Depression
Collective bargaining
Totalitarian state
Fascism
Nazi
Swastika
Depression
Gestapo
Axis
Axis Powers
Appeasement
Blitzkrieg / Lend Lease Program
D-Day
Kamikaze
V-E Day
Atomic Bomb
V-J Day
Concentration camp
Holocaust
Genocide
Refugee
War Crime
Nuremberg laws
United Nations
Marshall Plan
NATO
Truce
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