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Introduction 

 

The Rise of Science

                chp 16

                Biography signups

 

Enlightenment

                chp 17

 

Voltaire, Paris Salons, Deism, Adam Smith, Maria Theresa, Catherine the Great, Common Sense

 

French Revolution

                chp 18 (to page 515)

 

Tennis Court Oath, Jacobins, the Bastille, Robespierre, Marie Antoinette

 

Napoleon

chp 18 (page 515-end)

 

Code Napoleon, First Consul, Confederation of the Rhine, Hundred Days

 

Industrial Revolution

                chp 19

 

Eli Whitney, Luddites, steam engine, James Hargreave, proletariat

 

Nationalism

Quiz: Hard Times

                chp 20 (to page 568)

 

Prince Metternich, Chartist Movement, Tsar Alexander I, balance of power

 

Romanticism

                chp 20 (page 568-end)

 

William Blake, Johann Goethe, William Wordsworth, Sir Walter Scott, Ludwig von Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Richard Wagner

 

Travel Group Assignment and Country Selection 

 

Early 19th Century Culture

                                                                                       Map for Exam #1

 

“deserving poor”, utopianism, Jeremy Bentham, Friedrich Hegel, Karl Marx, Alexis de Tocqueville

 

German Unification

                chp 21

 

Otto von Bismarck, Giuseppe Mazzini, Schleswig-Holstein, Giuseppe Verdi, Camillo Benso di Cavour, Giuseppe Garibaldi

 

Review

 

Midterm Exam

Exam #1 Review Sheet

 


 

Imperialism

                chp 22

 

Congress of Berlin, Crimean War, Russo-Japanese War, Boer War, Dreyfus Affair, Vincent Van Gogh

 

Mid Century Thought

                chp 23

 

Charles Darwin, Frederick Chopin, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Edward Degas, Seneca Falls Declaration

 

World War I

                chp 24 (to page 689)

 

Claude Monet, Sigmund Freud, Schlieffen Plan, trench warfare, Triple Entente, Versailles Treaty

 

Russian Revolutions

Quiz: All Quiet on the Western Front

                chp 24 (page 689-end)

 

Rasputin, Nicholas II, Provisional Government, Menshevik, Bolshevik, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

 

Between the Wars

                chp 25 (page 700-707 & 717-end)

 

League of Nations, Neville Chamberlain, Cabaret, Pablo Picasso, Amelia Earhart, Glenn Miller

 

Fascism

                chp 25 (page 707-717)

 

Weimar Republic, Rosa Luxemburg, Benito Mussolini, Beerhall Putsch, Mein Kampf, Marc Chagall

 

World War II

                chp 26

 

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles De Gaulle, Dunkirk, Blitzkreig, Diary of Anne Frank

 

World War II

Quiz: Day in the Life

 

Operation Barbarossa, D-Day, Stalingrad, Battle of the Bulge, Final Solution, Fat Man and Little Boy

 

Cold War

chp 27

 

Berlin Air lift, Marshall Plan, Iron Curtain, Potsdam Conference, Nikita Kruzchev, Salvador Dali

 

South America

[presentations]                                

Map for Exam #2

 

Africa

[presentations]

 

Middle East

Quiz: Things Fall Apart

[presentations] 

 

East Asia

[presentations]

 

New World Order

                chp 28

Extra Credit Assignment Due 

Sputnik, Berlin Wall, glasnost, Lech Walesa, OPEC, Non Aligned Movement, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns

 

Globalization and the West

                chp 29

 

OPEC, Slobodan Milosevic, Gamal Abdel Nasser, ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

 

Review

Final Exam

                Exam #2 Review Sheet

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