AP European History Syllabus School Year: 2015-2016 Certificated Teacher: Desired Results Course Title (example: Geometry A and B): AP European History A and B Credit: one semester (.5) X two semesters (1.0) Prerequisites and/or recommended preparation (example: Completion of Algebra 1): None Estimate of hours per week engaged in learning activities: 5 hours of class work per week per 18 week semester Instructional Materials: All learning activities (resources, assignments, assessments) are contained within or referenced in the student s online course. The online course is accessed via login and password assigned by student s school (web account) or emailed directly to student upon enrollment, with the login website. Other resources required/resource Costs: 1. Access to the course textbook, The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, AP Edition 2. All other resources will be teacher-made or from free websites, such as the Internet Modern History Sourcebook and Hanover Historical Texts Project.. Course Description: AP European History is a challenging college-level course that is structured around the investigation of five course themes and 19 key concepts in four different chronological periods from the Renaissance to the present. Besides covering the relevant historical facts from these eras and linking these facts to the analysis of the themes, the course requires you to master nine historical thinking skills. During the year, you will be provided with the opportunity to examine primary sources, such as documentary material, pictorial and graphic materials, maps, political cartoons, statistical tables, and works of art. In addition, you will be provided with exposure to both to factual narrative and to the interpretations of European history from the perspectives of a variety of different writers and historians. Historiography is the history of history. You will be examining how people hav e thought about and written about historical events over the course of time. You will also be provided with the opportunity to develop your analytical and interpretive writing skills, practicing short answer questions as well as document - based and thematic free response style essays often. Besides the short answer questions, you will be writing at least one essay in every unit. Themes that are Addressed in the Course Interaction of Europe and the World Poverty and Prosperity Objective Knowledge and Subjective Visions
States and Other Institutions of Power Individual and Society Historical Thinking Skills (Organized by Skill Type) that are Addressed in the Course Chronological Reasoning o Historical Causation o Patterns of Continuity and Change over Time o Periodization Comparison and Contextualization o Comparison o Contextualization Crafting Historical Arguments from Historical Evidence o Historical Argumentation o Appropriate Use of Relevant Historical Evidence Historical Interpretation and Synthesis o Interpretation o Synthesis Enduring Understandings for Course: 1. Apply historical inquiry skills to the five course themes for each of the four units 2. Describe the impact of the Interaction of Europe and the World on both European and non-european civilizations from 1450 to the present 3. Describe the ways in which poverty and prosperity have resulted from and influenced political and economic policy from 1450 to the present 4. Analyze the objective and subjective visions of the world that influenced thinking from 1450 to the present 5. Understand the forms that European governments and other institutions of power have taken from 1450 to the present and how and why they changed over time 6. Analyze the ways in which governments moved toward or reacted against representative and democratic principles and practices and the reasons for these shifts 7. Describe how and why the status of specific groups within society has changed over time from 1450 to the present
8. Analyze the forms that family, class, and social groups have taken from 1450 to the present and how they have changed over time Course Learning Goals (including WA State Standards, Common Core Standards, National Standards): What is the key knowledge and skill needed to develop the desired understandings? Unit 1, Part 1: Review of Late Medieval Europe & the Renaissance 1. Social Studies Skills: 5.1.1: Understands the consequences of a position on an event in world history 2. Economics 2.1.1: Analyzes how the costs and benefits of economic choices have shaped events in world history 3. Geography 3.1.2: Identifies major world regions and understands their cultural roots Unit 1, Part 2: Europe Expands & Divides: Overseas Discoveries, Economic Change, & the Protestant Reformation 1. Geography 3.1.1: Understands how the geography of expansion and encounter has shaped global politics and economics. 2. Economics 2.1.1: Analyzes how the costs and benefits of economic choices have shaped events in world history 3. Social Studies Skills: 5.1.1: Understands the consequences of a position on an event in world history 4. Social Studies Skills: 5.2.2: Evaluates the validity, reliability, and credibility of sources when researching an event in world history 5. Geography 3.1.2: Identifies major world regions and understands their cultural roots 6. Geography 3.2.3: Understands the causes and effects of voluntary and involuntary migration in world history 7. History 4.1.2: Understands how the theme, Global Expansion and Encounter, helps to define this era in world history Unit 1, Part 3: A Century of Crisis for Early Modern Europe 1. Social Studies Skills: 5.1.1: Understands the consequences of a position on an event in world history 2. Social Studies Skills 5.2.2: Evaluates the validity, reliability, and credibility of sources when researching an event in world history 3. Social Studies Skills: 5.4.1: Evaluates multiple reasons or factors to develop a position paper or presentation Unit 2, Part 1: The Age of Absolutism 1. Civics: 1.2.3: evaluates the impact of various forms of government on people in world history 2. History 4.2.1: Analyzes how individuals and movements have shaped world history 3. Social Studies Skills 5.1.2: evaluates the precision of a position on an event in world history 4. Social Studies Skills 5.2.1: Creates and uses research questions that are tied to an essential question to focus inquiry on social studies issues and historical events Unit 2, Part 2: The Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment 1. Civics: 1.2.3: evaluates the impact of various forms of government on people in world history 2. History 4.2.1: Analyzes how individuals and movements have shaped world history 3. Social Studies Skills 5.4.1: Evaluates multiple reasons or factors to develop a position paper or presentation
4. Social Studies Skills 5.1.2: evaluates the precision of a position on an event in world history Unit 2, Part 3: The French Revolution & Napoleonic Era 1. Civics: 1.2.3: evaluates the impact of various forms of government on people in world history 2. History 4.2.1: Analyzes how individuals and movements have shaped world history 3. Social Studies Skills 5.1.1: Analyzes consequences of positions on an issue or event 4. Social Studies Skills 5.2.2: Evaluates the validity and reliability and credibility of sources when researching an issue or event 5. History 4.1.1: Analyzes change and continuity within a historical time period Unit 3, Part 1: The Industrial Revolution and its Consequences: The Rise of Liberalism, Marxism, Socialism, & Revolution 1. History 4.2.1: Analyzes how individuals and movements have shaped world history 2. Social Studies Skills 5.1.1: Analyzes consequences of positions on an issue or event 3. Social Studies Skills 5.4.1: Evaluates multiple reasons or factors to develop a position paper or presentation 4. History 4.1.1: Analyzes change and continuity within a historical time period Unit 3, Part 2: Nationalism & the Building of Nations 1. Civics 1.3.1: Analyzes the relationships and tensions between national interests and international issues in world history 2. History 4.3.2: Analyzes the multiple causal factor of conflicts in world history 3. Geography 3.2.2: Understands and analyzes examples of ethnocentrism Unit 3, Part 3: International Industrialization & Competition, New Imperialism, & Late 19 th Century Challenges to the Middle Class 1. Civics 1.3.1: Analyzes the relationships and tensions between national interests and international issues in world history 2. History 4.3.2: Analyzes the multiple causal factor of conflicts in world history 3. Social Studies Skills 5.1.1: Understands the consequences of a position on an event in world history 4. Social Studies Skills 5.4.1: Evaluates multiple reasons or factors to develop a position paper or presentation 5. History 4.2.3: Analyzes and evaluates how technology and ideas have shaped world history 6. Geography 3.2.2: Understands and analyzes examples of ethnocentrism Unit 4, Part 1: World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Interwar Years, & World War II 1. Civics 1.3.1: Analyzes the relationships and tensions between national interests and international issues in world history 2. History 4.3.2: Analyzes the multiple causal factor of conflicts in world history 3. Social Studies Skills 5.1.1: Understands the consequences of a position on an event in world history 4. Social Studies Skills 5.2.2: Evaluates the validity and reliability and credibility of sources when researching an issue or event 5. Social Studies Skills 5.4.1: Evaluates multiple reasons or factors to develop a position paper or presentation 6. Social Studies Skills 5.3.1: Evaluates one s own viewpoint and the viewpoints of others in the context of a discussion 7. Economics 2.2.1: Understands and analyzes how planned and market economies shape the production,
distribution, and consumption of goods, services, and resources Unit 4, Part 2: The Cold War and Modern Europe 1. History 4.2.2: Analyzes how cultures and cultural groups have shaped world history 2. History 4.4.1: Analyzes how an understanding of world history can help us prevent problems today 3. Social Studies Skills 5.1.1: Understands the consequences of a position on an event in world history 4. Social Studies Skills 5.2.2: Evaluates the validity, reliability, and credibility of sources when researching an event in world history 5. Geography 3.2.1: Understands and analyzes the interactions between humans and the environment across the world 6. Social Studies Skills 5.4.1: Evaluates multiple reasons or factors to develop a position paper or presentation 7. Economics 2.3.1: Analyzes the costs and benefits of government trade policies 8. History 4.3.1: Analyzes and interprets historical materials from a variety of perspectives Unit 5: The Global World 1. Economics 2.2.2: Analyzes how and why countries specialize in the production of particular goods and services 2. Economics 2.4.1: Analyzes and evaluates how people across the world have addressed issues involved with the distribution of resources and sustainability 3. Geography 3.2.1: Analyzes and evaluates human interaction with the environment across the world in the past or present Evidence of Assessment Performance Tasks: Throughout the curriculum, different performance tasks will be used to assess student learning and progress. In each unit there will be numerous reading and writing activities as well as visual lectures about history. The performance tasks will also ask students to relate concepts over time and even into the present day by connecting knowledge they already have or will be exposed to. End of unit assessments will include both multiple choice practice questions from the AP curriculum but also short essay practice to prepare for the different free response questions the students will see on the AP exam in the spring. The final unit will be a culminating review project as well as connecting their learning to present day situations. Other Evidence (self-assessments, observations, work samples, quizzes, tests and so on): The curriculum will also include self-assessments and access to the grading rubrics on how to score the AP free response sections so students can get a feel for what is required to be successful. The end of course test will include a practice test for the AP exam. Other assessments will include district required reading texts for world history in the first three quarters. Other evidence that will be collected to show student understanding will be individual self-assessments for each unit as well as reflections on discussion board dialogue/questions with the class. There will be in-person proctoring for end of unit tests.
Types of Learning Activities Indicate from the table below all applicable learning strategies that may be used in the course. Direct Instruction X Structured Overview X Mini presentation Drill & Practice X_ Demonstrations (Document Analysis) X Other (Video and Web-based Resources) Other: Indirect Instruction X Problembased Case Studies _ X _Inquiry Reflective Practice X Project X Paper Concept Mapping Other (List) Experiential Learning X Virt. Field Trip _ Experiments _X Simulations _X Games _Field Observ. X _Role-playing _Model Bldg. _Surveys _Other (List) Independent Study _X Essays Self-paced computer _Journals _Learning Logs _Reports _Directed Study X Research Projects _ X _Other Art and Document Analysis) Interactive Instruction X _Discussion _X Debates X _Role Playing _Panels _Peer Partner Learning _Project team _Laboratory Groups _Think, Pair, Share _Cooperative Learning _Tutorial Groups _X Interviewing _Conferencing X _Other (Online Socratic Seminar) Learning Activities Learning activities (as provided in the student friendly course schedule posted in online course) and contains the scope and sequence of performance tasks, activities and assessments by semester, unit, and weeks. These learning activities are aligned with the successful completion of the course learning goals and progress towards these learning activities will be reported monthly on a progress report. 1 st Semester AP European History A Learning Activities Unit 1, Part 1: Review of Late Medieval Europe & the Renaissance Duration: 2.5 weeks 1. The worldview of European intellectuals shifted from one based on ecclesiastical and classical authority to one based primarily on inquiry and observation of the natural world. 2. The struggle for sovereignty within and among states resulted in varying degrees of political centralization.
1. How did a revival of classical texts lead to new methods of scholarship and new values in both society and religion? 2. How did the invention of printing promote the dissemination of new ideas? 3. In what ways did the visual arts incorporate the new ideas of the Renaissance and how were the arts used to promote personal, political, and religious goals? 4. How did new ideas in science based on observation, experimentation, and mathematics challenge classical views of the cosmos, nature, and the human body? 5. In what ways did the new concept of the sovereign state and secular systems of law play a central role in the creation of new political institutions? 6. To what extent did the competitive state system lead to new patterns of diplomacy and new forms of warfare? 7. How did the competition for power between monarchs and corporate groups produce different distributions of governmental authority in European states? 1. Understand the ways in which the new appreciation of classical civilization and the rediscovery of classical literature created new approaches to life and furthered the values of secularism and individualism. 2. Explain how the humanist revival of Greek and Roman texts, spread by the printing press, challenged the institutional power of universities and the Roman Catholic Church and shift the focus of education away from theology toward the study of the classical texs. 3. Illustrate ways in which admiration for Greek and Roman political institutions supported a revival of civic humanist culture in the Italian city-states and produced secular models for individual and political behavior 4. Understand how the invention of the printing press in the 1450 s aided in spreading the Renaissance beyond Italy and encouraged the growth of vernacular literature, which would eventually contribute to the development of national cultures 5. Explain how princes and popes, concerned with enhancing their prestige, commissioned paintings and architectural works based on classical styles that often employed the newly invented technique of geometric perspective 6. Analyze the ways in which new ideas in science and anatomy, based on observation, experimentation, and mathematics, challenged accepted views of the cosmos, nature, and the human body. 7. Explain how new monarchies laid the foundation for the centralized modern state by establishing a monopoly on tax collection, military force, and the dispensing of justice 8. Explain how commercial and professional groups gained in power and played a greater role in political affairs 9. Analyze the ways in which the competition for power between monarchs and corporate groups produced different distributions of governmental authority in European states Unit 1, Part 2: Europe Expands & Divides: Overseas Discoveries, Economic Change, & the Protestant Reformation Duration: 2.5 Weeks 1. Religious pluralism challenged the concept of a unified Europe. 2. Europeans explored and settled overseas territories, encountering and interacting with indigenous populations. 1. How did the Protestant and Catholic Reformations fundamentally change theology, religious institutions, and culture? 2. To what extent did religious reform both increase state control of religious institutions and provide justification for challenging state authority? 3. In what ways did conflicts among religious groups overlap with political and economic competition within and
among states? 4. Analyze the ways in which European nations were driven by commercial and religious motives and technological advances to explore overseas territories and establish colonies. 5. How did Europeans use coercion and negotiation to establish overseas empires and trade networks? 6. How did Europe s colonial expansion lead to a global exchange of goods, flora, fauna, cultural practices, and diseases which resulted in the destruction of some indigenous civilizations, a shift toward European dominance, and the expansion of the slave trade? 1. Explain the relationship between Renaissance learning trends and religious reform 2. Explain the ideas of the major reformers, such as Martin Luther and John Calvin 3. Explain how the Catholic Reformation was a reaction to the Protestant Reformation 4. Illustrate ways in which monarchs and princes, such as Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, initiated religious reform in an effort to exercise greater control over religious life and morality in their nations 5. Understand the ways in which issues of religious reform exacerbated conflicts between the monarchy and the nobility in conflicts such as the French Wars of Religion. 6. Explain how European states sought direct access to gold, spices, and luxury goods as a means to enhance personal wealth and state power. 7. Understand how Christianity served as a stimulus for exploration as governments and religious authorities sought to spread the faith and counter Islam, and how it was used as a justification for the physical and cultural subjugation of indigenous civilizations 8. Compare and contrast the ways in which the Portuguese, Spanish, French, English, and Dutch established colonies and trading networks and explain how competitions of trade led to conflicts and rivalries among these nations 9. Analyze the impact of European colonial expansion on the New World, explaining how the African slave trade expanded in response to the establishment of a plantation economy in the Americas and how the Columbian Exchange created opportunities for Europeans while leading to the subjugation and destruction of indigenous peoples and their civilizations Unit 1, Part 3: A Century of Crisis for Early Modern Europe Duration: 2 Weeks Essential Understandings 1. European society and the experiences of everyday life were increasingly shaped by commercial and agricultural capitalism, notwithstanding the persistence of medieval social and economic structures. 1. How did the traditions of hierarchy and status persist in Early Modern Europe despite economic changes that produced new social patterns? 2. How did economic changes begin to alter rural production and power, despite the fact that most Europeans derived their livelihood from agriculture and oriented their lives around the seasons, the village, or the manor? 3. How did families change as a result of economic changes in Early Modern Europe? 1. Explain how the growth of commerce and innovations in banking and finance promoted the growth of urban
financial centers and produced a new economic elite 2. Explain how the price revolution contributed to the accumulation of capital and the expansion of the market economy through the commercialization of agriculture, which benefited large landowners in Western Europe 3. Analyze the ways in which Europeans responded to economic and environmental challenges. Unit 2, Part 1: The Age of Absolutism Duration: 2.5 weeks 1. Different models of political sovereignty affected the relationship among states and between states and individuals 2. The expansion of European commerce accelerated the growth of a worldwide economic network 1. Why did absolute monarchy emerge as the dominant form of government in much of Europe over the course of the 17 th and 18 th centuries? 2. What important challenges to absolutism resulted in alternative political systems and why did they emerge? 3. How did dynastic and state interests, along with Europe s expanding colonial empires, influence the diplomacy of European states and lead to war around the world? 4. How did European-dominated worldwide economic networks contribute to the agricultural, industrial, and consumer revolutions in Europe? 5. How did commercial rivalries influence diplomacy and warfare among European states? 1. Explain the characteristics of absolute monarchies and understand why did they became the dominant form of government in the 17 th and 18 th centuries 2. Compare and contrast constitutionalism and absolutism. 3. Explain how continental and colonial political and commercial rivalries between European dynasties led to conflicts and wars during the age of absolutism 4. Illustrate ways in which the agricultural revolution and the development of the cottage industry system changed the world economy during the age of absolutism 5. Explain the characteristics of mercantilism and analyze how it affected the economic and political role of the state during the age of absolutism Unit 2, Part 2: The Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment Duration: 2.5 Weeks 1. The popularization and dissemination of the Scientific Revolution and the application of its methods to political, social, and ethical issues led to an increased, although not unchallenged, emphasis on reason in European culture.
2. The experiences of everyday life were shaped by demographic, environmental, medical, and technological changes. 1. How did rational and empirical thought challenge traditional values and ideas? 2. How did Enlightenment intellectuals apply the principles of the scientific revolution to society and human institutions? 3. How did the increasingly numerous and varied printed materials serve a growing literate public and lead to the development of public opinion, despite censorship by political and religious institutions? 4. How did new political and economic theories challenge absolutism and mercantilism? 5. How did the arts change during the Enlightenment? 6. How did the rational analysis of religious practices during the Enlightenment lead to natural religion and the demand for religious toleration? 7. How did new ideas in science promote experimentation and the use of mathematics, which ultimately shaped the scientific method? 8. To what extent did Enlightenment ideas impact the role of women? 9. How did the Commercial revolution affect the demographic patterns of the 18 th century? 1. Understand how the use of the scientific method in the sciences led to the desire to apply scientific principles to other aspects of life during the Enlightenment 2. Understand how new political models based on the concept of natural rights challenged traditional values and ideas and led to political reform 3. Explain how intellectuals such as Rousseau offered new arguments for the exclusion of women from political life, despite the principles of equality espoused by the Enlightenment and French Revolution 4. Explain how new institutions and printed materials, such as salons, coffeehouses, newspapers, books, and pamphlets, increasingly exposed Europeans to Enlightenment culture and cultures outside of Europe 5. Explain how religion was viewed increasingly as a matter of private rather than public concern and illustrate the ways in which many governments had extended toleration to Christian minorities and, in some states, civil equality to Jews, by 1800. 6. Analyze pieces of art, showing how artistic movements and literature reflect the outlook and values of commercial and bourgeois society as well as new Enlightenment ideals of political power and citizenship 2 nd Semester AP European History B Learning Activities Unit: 3, Part 1: The Industrial Revolution and its Consequences: The Rise of Liberalism, Marxism, Socialism, & Revolution Duration: 2 Weeks
1. The Industrial Revolution spread from Great Britain to the continent, where the state played a greater role in promoting industry. 2. The experiences of everyday life were shaped by industrialization, depending on the level of industrial development in a particular location. 3. The problems of industrialization provoked a range of ideological, governmental, and collective responses. 4. European ideas and culture expressed a tension between objectivity and scientific realism on one hand, and subjectivity and individual expression on the other. 1. What factors led to the industrial dominance of Great Britain in the first industrial revolution? 2. What factors account for the industrialization of western European nations and the continuing dominance of traditional agricultural societies in the early 19 th century? 3. How did industrialization promote the development of new classes in the industrial regions of Europe? 4. How did changing demographic factors lead to rapid population growth, urbanization, and social dislocation during the industrial revolution? 5. How were family structures and relations altered in bourgeois and working-class families during the industrial revolution? 6. How did governments, social organizations, and political movements attempt to respond to the problems of industrialization? 7. How and why did Romanticism break with neoclassical forms of artistic representation and with rationalism, placing more emphasis on intuition and emotion? SQBAT: 1. Identify the political, economic, geographic, and social factors that allowed Great Britain to establish industrial dominance during the first industrial revolution 2. Analyze the factors that prompted the spread of industrialization to the continent in the early 19 th century 3. Compare and contrast the factors that account for the political, economic, and social differences between eastern and western Europe in the 19 th century. 4. Analyze the class structures created by industrialization and compare and contrast them with those found in primarily agricultural regions 5. Identify the factors that accounted for rapid population growth, urbanization, and social dislocations during the late 18 th and 19 th centuries 6. Analyze the ways in which liberals, Chartists, conservatives, socialists, anarchists, and Marxists attempted to address the problems created by industrialization. 7. Analyze the ways in which governments responded to the problems created or exacerbated by industrialization. 8. Identify how and why Romanticism broke from classical artistic forms to emphasize emotion, nature, individuality, intuition, the supernatural, and national histories in their works. Unit: 3, Part 2: Nationalism & the Building of Nations Duration: 1 week 1. European states struggled to maintain international stability in an age of nationalism and revolutions. 2. The unification of Italy and Germany transformed the European balance of power and led to efforts to construct
a new diplomatic order. 1. How did the Concert of Europe seek to maintain the status quo through collective action and adherence to conservatism? 2. How did the breakdown of the Concert of Europe open the door for movements of national unification in Italy and Germany, as well as liberal reforms elsewhere? 3. What methods were employed in the unification of Italy and Germany and how did their unification transform the European balance of power? 4. How did nationalism transform the map of Europe in the 19 th century? 1. Analyze the causes and consequences of the revolutions of 1848. 2. Analyze the causes and consequences of the Crimean War. 3. Analyze the consequences of the conservative resurgence established at the Congress of Vienna and employed by the Concert of Europe. 4. Compare and contrast the unification movements in Italy and Germany Unit 3, Part 3: International Industrialization & Competition, New Imperialism, & Late 19 th Century Challenges to the Middle Class Duration: 3 weeks 1. The experiences of everyday life continued to change as a result of expanded industrialization during the 2 nd industrial revolution. 2. New technologies and means of communication and transportation, including railroads, resulted in more fully integrated national economies, a higher level of urbanization, and a truly global economic network. 3. Leisure time centered increasingly on the family or small groups, concurrent with the development of activities and spaces to use that time. 4. In the second half of the 19 th century, labor leaders in many countries created unions and syndicates to provide the working classes with a collective voice, and these organizations used collective action, such as strikes and movements for men s universal suffrage to reinforce their demands. 5. Suffragists and feminists petitioned and staged and staged public protests to press their demands for similar rights for women. 6. Governments responded to the problems created or exacerbated by industrialization by expanding their functions and creating modern bureaucratic states. 7. A variety of motives and methods led to the intensification of European global control and increased tensions among the Great Powers. 1. How did mechanization and the factory system change the scale and complexity of production during the 2 nd industrial revolution? 2. How did new technologies and means of communication and transportation, including railroads, affect the social, political, and economic structure of society during the 2 nd industrial revolution? 3. Compare and contrast the 1 st and 2 nd industrial revolutions.
4. Analyze the ways in which heightened consumerism resulted from the 2 nd industrial revolution. 5. Analyze the ways in which governments responded to the problems created or exacerbated by industrialization, including reforms, economic changes, and public education. 6. How did political movements and social organization respond to the problems of industrialization? 7. What factors led to the New Imperialism of the 19 th century? 8. How did industrial and technological developments facilitate European control of global empires? 9. How did imperial endeavors significantly affect society, diplomacy, and culture in Europe and create resistance to foreign control abroad? 1. Analyze the economic, political, and cultural motivations of European nations in their new imperial ventures in Asia and Africa. 2. Analyze the ways in which industrial and technological developments facilitated European control of global empires. 3. Analyze the ways in which imperial endeavors significantly affected society, diplomacy, and culture in Europe and created resistance to foreign control abroad. 4. Understand the ways in which industrialization and mass marketing increased both the production and demand for a new range of consumer goods during the 2 nd industrial revolution. 5. Understand how new efficient methods of transportation and other innovations improved the distribution of goods, increased consumerism, and enhanced the quality of life during the 2 nd industrial revolution. 6. Analyze the ways in which industrial and technological developments of the 2 nd industrial revolution facilitated European control of global empires 7. Analyze the effects of European imperialism on African and Asian populations, especially in the Congo and China. Unit 4, Part 1: World War I, the Russian Revolution, the Interwar Years, & World War II Duration: 6 Weeks 1. Total War and political instability in the first half of the 20 th century occurred as a result of the First and Second World Wars and the Versailles settlement. 2. The stresses of economic collapse and total war engendered internal conflicts within European states and created conflicting conceptions of the relationship between the individual and the state, as demonstrated in the ideological battle among liberal democracy communism, and fascism. 3. During the 20 th century, diverse intellectual and cultural movements questioned the existence of objective knowledge, the ability of reason to arrive at truth, and the role of religion in determining moral standards. 4. Demographic changes, economic growth, total war, disruptions of traditional social patterns, and competing definitions of freedom and justice altered the experiences of everyday life. 1. Which factors caused World War I and how did these factors turn a regional dispute into a world war? 2. How and why did a European war become a global conflict? 3. How did the conflicting goals of peace negotiators in Paris pit diplomatic idealism against the desire to punish Germany and create a settlement that satisfied few people and nations?
4. How did the ideologies and events of the interwar period, such as fascism, extreme nationalism, racist ideologies, and the failure of appeasement, result in the catastrophe of World War II? 5. What were the causes and consequences of interwar colonial policies? 6. Analyze the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution (1917). 7. Which factors led to the ideology of fascism during the interwar years and what was its appeal? 8. What were the causes of the Great Depression and how did it undermine Western European democracies and foment radical political responses throughout Europe? 9. How and why did the widely held belief in progress begin to break down before World War I and how did the experience of war intensify the sense of anxiety that permeated many facets of thought and culture from 1900-1945? 10. How and why were the arts defined by experimentation, self-expression, and subjectivity during the 20 th century? 11. How and why was the 20 th century characterized by large-scale suffering brought on by warfare and genocide? 1. Analyze the long- and short-term causes of World War I. 2. How was WWI impacted by the new technologies of the 2 nd industrial revolution? 3. Analyze the ways in which Europe s relationship with the rest of the world shifted with the globalization of World War I and the overthrow of European empires. 4. Analyze the impact of the Versailles settlement on Europe and the world and assess its impact on the growing militarism of the interwar years. 5. Assess the reasons for the weakness of the League of Nations. 6. Analyze the ways in which French and British fears of another war, American isolationism, and deep distrust between Western democratic, capitalist nations and the communist Soviet Union allowed fascist states to rearm and expand their territory. Give specific examples of the impact of fascism in Spain, Italy, and Germany. 7. Analyze the ways in which racism and anti-semitism contributed to the Nazis attempts to establish a new racial order, culminating with the Holocaust. 8. Assess the causes and effects of the League of Nations distribution of former German and Ottoman possessions to France and Great Britain through the mandate system. 9. Analyze the causes and effects of both Russian revolutions of 1917. 10. Analyze the causes of the Great Depression and explain how did it undermined Western European democracies and fomented radical political responses throughout Europe. Unit 4, Part 2: The Cold War and Modern Europe Duration: 3 Weeks 1. Following World War II, a Cold War erupted between the liberal democratic West and the communist East that lasted nearly 50 years 2. During the 20 th century, diverse intellectual and cultural movements questioned the existence of objective knowledge, the ability of reason to arrive at truth, and the role of religion in determining moral standards. 3. Demographic changes, economic growth, total war, disruptions of traditional social patterns, and competing definitions of freedom and justice altered the experiences of everyday life. 4. In response to the destructive impact of two world wars, European nations began to set aside nationalism in favor of economic and political integration, forming a series of transnational unions that grew in size and scope over the 2 nd half of the 20 th century.
5. Postwar economic growth supported an increase in welfare benefits; however, subsequent economic stagnation led to criticism and limitation of the welfare state. 1. How did a Cold War between the liberal democratic West and the communist East begin after World War II and what factors caused it to last nearly 50 years? 2. Analyze the methods used by the East and the West in the Cold War, including propaganda campaigns, covert actions, limited hot wars in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and the nuclear and conventional arms race. 3. Analyze the ways in which the United States exerted military, political, and economic influence in Western Europe and the ways in which the Soviet Union exerted military, political, and economic influence in the Iron Curtain nations. 4. Analyze the causes and effects of post-world War II decolonization. 5. Analyze the impact of the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe beginning in 1989 and the collapse of the USSR in 1991. How did the ensuing end of the Cold War lead to the establishment of capitalist economies throughout Eastern Europe, the reunification of Germany, the velvet divorce of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the dissolution of Yugoslavia, and the formation of the European Union? 6. What were the steps in the political and economic integration of Europe? 7. How did the expansion of cradle-to-grave social welfare programs in the aftermath of World War II, accompanied by high taxes, become a contentious domestic political issue as the budgets of European nations came under pressure in the late 20 th century? 8. Analyze the ways in which Eastern European nations were defined by their relationship with the USSR and the impact of Mikhail Gorbachev s policies on the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR. 9. How did the effects of world war and economic depression undermine confidence in science and human reason and give impetus to existentialism and postmodernism in the post-1945 world? 10. How did science the technology yield impressive material benefits but also cause immense destruction and raise moral questions that eluded consensus and crossed religious, political, and philosophical perspectives? 11. Analyze the ways in which new movements in the visual arts, architecture, and music demolished existing aesthetic standards, explored subconscious and subjective states, and satirized Western society and its values. 12. How were the lives and women affected by family and work responsibilities, economic changes, and feminism in the 2 nd half of the 20 th century? 13. Analyze the emergence of new voices in political, intellectual, and social discourse in European affairs during the 2 nd half of the 20 th century. What will the students know and be able to do (in student friendly language)? 1. Explain the causes and effects of the Cold War and the methods used by the superpowers to control their spheres of influence. 2. Analyze the causes and effects of decolonization. 3. Analyze the causes and consequences of the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR in the late 1980 s and early 1990 s? 4. Analyze the causes and consequences of the physical reorganization of Europe in the late 20 th century. 5. Explain the costs and benefits of the welfare state system found in post-war Europe. 6. Explain how the insecurities of the first half of the 20 th century impacted the artistic and philosophical thinking of the post-war world? 7. Analyze the changing role of women in the late 20 th century.