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Course Description
The time period between World War I and World War II is received and assessed globally. The effects of World War II and The Cold War are studied extensively. The countries of Africa, the Middle East and Latin America are presented in relationship to the effects of the Cold War. Current Affairs are addressed as the 20th century came to a close and the 21st century began. Topics such as political and economic situations in current-day North America and Europe, technology, changes in the environment and the gap between developed and underdeveloped countries are analyzed.
Credits: 5
Languages: English and Spanish
Course Content
Unit 6 - Between Two Wars
- Describe the independence struggles of the colonized regions of the world, including the roles of leaders, such as Sun Yat-sen in China and the roles of ideology and religion
- Analyze the aims and negotiating roles of world leaders, the terms and influence of the Treaty of Versailles and Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, and the causes and the effects of the United States rejection of the League of Nations on world politics
- Describe the effects of the war and resulting peace treaties on population movement, the international economy, and shifts in the geographical and political borders of Europe and the Middle East
- Understand the widespread disillusionment with prewar institutions, authorities, and values that resulted in a void that was later filled by totalitarians
- Understand the causes and consequences of the Russian Revolution, including Lenin's use of totalitarian means to seize and maintain control
- Trace Stalin's rise to power in the Soviet Union and the connection between economic policies, political policies, the absence of a free press, and systematic violations of human rights
- Analyze the rise, aggression, and human costs of totalitarian regimes in Germany, Italy, and the Soviet Union, noting especially their common and dissimilar traits
Unit 7 - World War II
- Compare the German, Italian, and Japanese drives for empire in the 1930s, including the 1937 Rape of Nanking, other atrocities in China, and the Stalin-Hitler Pact of 1939
- Understand the role of appeasement, nonintervention (isolationism), and the domestic distractions in Europe and the United States prior to the outbreak of World War II
- Identify and locate the Allied and Axis powers on a map and discuss the major turning points of the war, the principal theaters of conflict, key strategic decisions, and the resulting war conferences and political resolutions, with emphasis on the importance of geographic factors
- Describe the political, diplomatic, and military leaders during the war (Winston Churchill, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Emperor Hirohito, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight Eisenhower
- Analyze the Nazi policy of pursuing racial purity, especially against the European Jews; its transformation into the final Solution; and the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of six million Jewish civilians
- Discuss the human costs of the war, with particular attention to the civilian and military losses in Russia, Germany, Britain, the United States, China, and Japan
Unit 8 - Post World II
- Compare the economic and military power shifts caused by the war, including the Yalta Pact, the development of nuclear weapons, Soviet control over Eastern European nations, and the economic recoveries of Germany and Japan
- Analyze the causes of the Cold War, with the free world on one side and Soviet client states on the other, including competition for influence in such places as Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam and Chile
- Understand the importance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which established the pattern for America's postwar policy of supplying economic and military aid to prevent the spread of Communism and the resulting economic and political competition in arenas such as Southeast Asia ( Korean War, Vietnam War), Cuba, and Africa
- Analyze the Chinese Civil War, the rise of Mao Tse-tung, and the subsequent political and economic upheavals in China( te Great Leap Forward)
- Describe the uprisings in Poland (1952), Hungary (1956), and Czechoslovakia (1968) as people in Soviet satellites sought freedom from Soviet control
- Discuss the establishment and work of the United Nations and the purposes and functions of the Warsaw pact, SEATO, NATO, and the Organization of American States
- Understand the challenges in the regions, including their geopolitical, cultural, military, and economic significance and the international relationships in which they are involved
- Describe the recent history of the regions, including political divisions and systems, key leaders, religious issues, natural features, resources, and population patterns
- Discuss the important trends in the regions today and whether they appear to serve the cause of individual freedom and democracy
Unit 9 - Africa, the Middle East and Latin America
- Analyze the causes of the Cold War, with the free world on one side and Soviet client states on the other, including competition for influence in such places as Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, and Chile
- Understand the importance of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which established the patter for America's postwar policy of supplying economic and military aid to prevent the spread of Communism and the resulting economic and political competition in arenas such as Southeast Asia ( the Korean War, Vietnam War, Cuba and Africa)
- Understand how the forces of nationalism developed in the Middle East, how the Holocaust affected world opinion regarding the need for a Jewish state, and the significance and effects of the location and establishment of Israel on world affairs
- Discuss the establishment and work of the United Nations and the purposes and functions of the Warsaw Pact,, SEATO, NATO, and the Organization of American States
- Understand the challenges in the regions, including geopolitical, cultural, military, and economic significance and the international relationships in which they are involved
- Describe the recent history of the regions, including political divisions and systems, key leaders, religious issues, natural features, resources, and population patterns
- Discuss the important trends in the regions today and whether they appear to serve the cause of individual freedom and democracy
Unit 10 - Current Affairs
- Compare the economic and military power shifts caused by the war, including the Yalta Pact, the development of nuclear weapons, Soviet control over Eastern European nations, and the economic recoveries of Germany and Japan
- Describe the uprisings in Poland (1952), Hungary (1956), and Czechoslovakia (1968) and those countries' resurgence in the 1970s and 1980s as people in Soviet satellites sought freedom from Soviet control
- Understand how the forces of nationalism developed in the Middle East, how the Holocaust affected world opinion regarding the need for a Jewish state, and the significance and effects of the location and establishment of Israel on world affairs
- Analyze the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union, including the weaknesses of the command economy, burdens of military commitments, and growing resistance to Soviet rule by dissidents in satellite states and the non-Russian Soviet republics
- Discuss the establishment and work of the United Nations and the purposes and functions of the Warsaw Pact, SEATO, NATO, and the Organization of American States
- Understand the challenges in the regions, including geopolitical, cultural, military, and economic significance and the international relationships in which they are involved
- Describe the recent history of the regions, including political divisions and systems, key leaders, religious issues, natural features, resources, and population patterns
- Discuss the important trends in the regions today and weather they appear to serve the cause of individual freedom and democracy
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