School District of Springfield Township
Springfield Township High School Course Overview
Course Name: World History II (Honors)
Course Description: World History II (Honors) reviews the same content as Academic World History II; however, students participate in more in-depth discussion and critical analysis of the subject matter. Extensive and challenging projects are included.
Course Prerequisite: A final grade of “A” in World History I and teacher recommendation.
Unit Titles: Unit 1: The Enlightenment and the American Revolution Unit 2: The French Revolution and Napoleon Unit 3: The Industrial Revolution Unit 4: World War I Unit 5: The Russian Revolution and Revolutions around the World Unit 6: World War II and its aftermath
Essential Questions: 1. How has the individual impacted history? 2. How have political and social systems evolved over time? 3. How has history shaped art and literature? 4. How is the theme of “continuity and change” evident throughout history?
Big Ideas/Enduring Understandings: Unit 1: The Enlightenment and the American Revolution • The Enlightenment challenged the traditional order in Europe. • Ideas of the physiocrats clashed with mercantilist policy. • Enlightenment ideas at first affected only the upper levels of European society. • Constitutional government evolved in Britain and the United States.
Unit 2: The French Revolution and Napoleon • New beliefs and attitudes inspired the leaders of the French Revolution. • The French Revolution reshaped social and political institutions. • Napoleon Bonaparte created upheaval across Europe. • The effects of the French Revolution were far reaching.
Unit 3: The Industrial Revolution • The Industrial Revolution transformed traditional ways of life. • Capital and technology played important roles in the Industrial Revolution. • Individual contributions shape the industrial age. • New social and political philosophies developed during the industrial age. • Science and new ways of doing business promoted industrial growth. • Social, economic, and intellectual developments reshaped western social values. • Literature, music, and visual arts reflected changing attitudes and values. • Individuals made contributions in science, business, and the arts.
Unit 4: World War I • Political and military rivalries pushed the European powers toward war in the early 1900s. • World War I became the first global war in history. • Total war had a significant impact on soldiers and on civilians. • Peace treaties ending the war led to both bitterness and hope.
Unit 5: The Russian Revolution and Revolutions around the World • Political, social, and, economic conditions in czarist Russia sparked a revolution. • Lenin and Stalin played important roles in the emergence of the Soviet Union. • The Soviet economy developed after the revolution. • The Soviet Union became a totalitarian state. • Nationalism and a desire for modernization affected countries around the world. • The Great Depression affected world economies. • Anti-imperialism movements awakened powerful forces.
Unit 6: World War II and its Aftermath • There were many causes and effects of the Great Depression. • Writers and artists reflected the mood of postwar Europe and the United States. • Some countries turned to authoritarian governments in the postwar era. • Fascism upheld values of the past. • The world plunged into a second global conflict after World War I. • Technology affected the fighting and destruction in World War II. • Totalitarian regimes were able to carry out their goals during the war. • World War II changed the balance of world power. • Geography influenced the war in Eastern Europe and Russia.
Key Competencies/Skills/Procedures: • Take effective notes • Read maps • Compare viewpoints • Use charts and graphs • Analyze primary sources • Interpret events • Comparison • Think chronologically • Synthesize and evaluate information • Sequence • Provide context for events • Connect and analyze cause and result • Evaluate continuity and change on societies and individuals • Evaluate conflict and cooperation in world history • Ask questions • Solve problems and make decisions
Core Vocabulary:
Unit 1: The Enlightenment and the American Revolution
Navigation Acts Continental Congress George Washington Battle of Saratoga Treaty of Paris Bill of Rights Act of Union Tories Whigs Robert Walpole George III “Candide” Joseph II Johann Bach George Handel Wolfgang Mozart Daniel Defoe Thomas Hobbes John Locke Voltaire Baron de Montesquieu Denis Diderot Mary Wollstonecraft Jean-Jacques Rousseau Natural law social contract natural right Philosophe physiocrat laissez faire Censorship salon enlightened despot Baroque rococo constitutional government Cabinet prime minister oligarchy Popular sovereignty loyalist federal republic “The Wealth of Nations”
Unit 2: The French Revolution and Napoleon
Ancient regime Jacques Necker cahiers Tennis Court Oath National Assembly Bastille Great Fear tricolor Legislative Assembly Declaration of Pilnitz Jacobins Maximilien Robespierre Directory Olympe de Gouges “La Marseillaise” Jacques Louis David Consulate Committee of Public Safety Concordat of 1801 Napoleonic Code Confederation of the Rhine Battle of Trafalgar Continental System Joseph Bonaparte Duke of Wellington Marie Louise scorched earth policy Waterloo Quadruple Alliance Clemens von Metternich Bourgeoisie deficit spending faction Émigré republic suffrage Nationalism secular plebiscite Annex blockade guerrilla warfare Abdicate legitimacy
Unit 3: The Industrial Revolution
Charles Townshend Jethro Tull Thomas Newcomen James Watt Abraham Darby John Kay James Hargreaves Richard Arkwright George Stephenson Luddite John Wesley Methodism Thomas Malthus John Stuart Mill iron law of wages Utopians Karl Marx Bessemer Process Alfred Nobel Michael Faraday Thomas Edison Henry Ford the Wright brothers Guglielmo Marconi Alfred Krupp Louis Pasteur Robert Koch Florence Nightingale Joseph Lister atomic theory Charles Lyell natural selection Social Darwinism Salvation Army Lord Byron Johann von Goethe Ludwig Beethoven Charlotte Bronte Charles Dickens Gustave Courbet Claude Monet post-impressionists Anesthetic enclosure smelt Capital factory turnpike Urbanization tenement labor union Utilitarianism socialism means of production Communism proletariat dynamo Interchangeable parts assembly line stock Corporation cartel germ theory Urban renewal mutual aid society standard of living Cult of domesticity racism temperance movement Social gospel women’s suffrage romanticism Realism impressionism
Unit 4: World War I and its Aftermath
Hague Tribunal Pan-slavism Central Powers Allies Frances Ferdinand Gavrilo Princip Schlieffen Plan Western Front Verdun Somme Tannenberg Caporetto Gallipoli T.E. Lawrence Treaty of Brest-Litovsk Woodrow Wilson Lusitania Fourteen Points David Lloyd George Georges Clemenceau League of Nations Treaty of Versailles Pacifism militarism Ultimatum mobilize neutrality Stalemate no man’s land zeppelin U-boat convoy total war Conscription propaganda atrocity Self determination armistice pandemic Reparations collective security mandate entente
Unit 5: The Russian Revolution and Revolutions around the World
Gregory Rasputin Bolsheviks Nicholas and Alexandra Leon Trotsky Red Army Whites Cheka USSR NEP Great Purge Comintern Pravda Alexandra Kollontai Osip Mandelstam Anna Akhmatova Mikhail Sholokhov Porfirio Diaz Francisco Madero Zapatistas Venustiano Carranza Diego Rivera Good Neighbor PolicyWomen’s War African National Congress Pan-Africanism negritude Pan Arabism Zionist Amritsar Massacre Mohandas Gandhi Muhammad Ali JinnahSun Yixian May Fourth Movement Guomindang Jiang Jieshi Mao Zedong Long March Hirohito Manzhouguo Proletariat soviet commissar Command economy collective kulak Totalitarian state atheism socialist realism Naturalization economic nationalism cultural nationalism Apartheid polygamy ahimsa Civil disobedience Diet ultranationalist
Unit 6: World War II and its Aftermath
Locarno Treaties Kellogg-Briand pact IRA Maginot Line Leon Blum Commonwealth of Nations New Deal Marie Currie cubism Bauhaus T.S. Eliot Virginia Woolf James Joyce Jazz Age Black Shirts Il Duce Ruhr Valley Dawes Plan Mein Kampf Third Reich Gestapo Nuremberg Laws Kristallnacht Haile Selassie Guernica Munich Conference Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis Neville Chamberlain Nazi-Soviet Pact phony war Dunkirk Winston Churchill Battle of Britain Operation BarbarossaLend-Lease Act Pearl Harbor Holocaust D-Day Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Battle of El Alamein Battle of Stalingrad Battle of the Coral Sea Battle of the Bulge V-E day Harry Truman UN iron curtain Truman Doctrine Berlin Airlift NATO Warsaw Pact Disarmament overproduction margin buying General strike psychoanalysis abstract Surrealism flapper stream of consciousness Chancellor repudiate concentration camp Sanction appeasement pacifism Anschluss blitzkrieg radar Sonar genocide collaborator Reparations island-hopping kamikaze Containment satellite
Core Resource:
Prentice Hall’s “World History-Connections to Today” (Modern Era) 2003
Pennsylvania State Standards Guiding Course:
Unit 1: The Enlightenment and the American Revolution 1. Civics and Government: 5.1 Principles and Documents of Government 5.2 Rights and Responsibilities of Citizenship 5.3 How Government Works 2. Economics 6.3 Functions of Government 3. Geography 7.1 Basic Geographic Literacy 4. History 8.1 Historical Analysis and Skills Development 8.4 World History
Unit 2: The French Revolution and Napoleon 1. Civics and Government: 5.3 How Government Works 2. Geography 7.1 Basic Geographic Literacy 3. History 8.1 Historical Analysis and Skills Development 8.4 World History
Unit 3: The Industrial Revolution 1. Civics and Government: 5.3 How Government Works 2. Economics 6.2 Markets and Economic systems 6.5 Income, Profit and Wealth 3. History 8.1 Historical Analysis and Skills Development 8.4 World History
Unit 4: World War I 1. Civics and Government: 5.4 How International Relationships Function 2. Geography 7.1 Basic Geographic Literacy 3. History 8.1 Historical Analysis and Skills Development 8.4 World History
Unit 5: The Russian Revolution and Revolutions around the World 1. Civics and Government: 5.3 How Government Works 2. Geography 7.1 Basic Geographic Literacy 3. History 8.1 Historical Analysis and Skills Development 8.4 World History
Unit 6: World War II and its Aftermath 1. Civics and Government: 5.4 How International Relationships Function 2. Economics 6.2 Markets and Economic Systems 3. Geography 7.1 Basic Geographic Literacy 4. History 8.1 Historical Analysis and Skills Development 8.4 World History
Prepared October 2010—CS Approved--chr