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Core Content and Skills
Global History & Geography 2
2007-2008
BOE Approved


Absolutism
 Content 
 Skills 
How are decisions made under Absolutism?

What forms of Absolutism were present in France, England, Spain, Russia, Austria, and Prussia?

 
Develop MC strategies

How to write thematic and DBQ essays

Identify the various types of governments

Interpret primary source documents

 
 
Enlightenment
 Content 
 Skills 
Understand the political philosophies of Hobbes, Locke, Voltaire, Rousseou, Montesquieu, and Smith

Explain the state of nature and the development and role of government

Describe the importantance of information, how it is spread, and how people try to prevent it from spreading

Describe the effect of the Enlightenment on later revolutions

 
Identify the different forms of governments

Explain the role of individuals in different governments

Interpret primary source documents

Debate the parameters of free speech

Continue MC and essay writing

Identify cause and effect of new ideas

 
 
French Revolution
 Content 
 Skills 
Describe life in France before the revolution

Explain how the development of Enlightenment thought and the example of the American Revolution affected France.

Explain how people are willing to give up rights in return for security.

Describe how Napoleon creates nationalism.

Describe the changes that were made at the Congress of Vienna and the affect on Europe.

 
Continue MC and essay writing

DBQ essay organization and writing skills.

Explain the role of individuals in different governments

Interpret primary source documents

Continue work on multiple choice question strategies.

DBQ skills- analyzing documents, development of the intro, body, and conclusion of the essay.

Creating a research paper equipped with citations and a works cited page.

Continue mutliple choice strategies.

How to write thematic and DBQ essays

 
 
Industrial Revolution
 Content 
 Skills 
Describe life before the Industrial Revolution (PES).

Who led the way in the Industrial Revolution and why?

What inventions and technological developments impacted society?

The Industrial Revolution spreads to other European countries.

New ideologies that developed

 
Continue mutliple choice strategies.

DBQ skills- analyzing documents, development of the intro, body, and conclusion of the essay.

Identify multiple sources of the same information. 

Organize notes into a working resource guide.   Thematic and DBQ skills.  

Current Events articles.



Interpret primary source documents

 
 
Revolutions in Europe and Latin America
 Content 
 Skills 
Radical, moderate and conservative ideologies.

 Affect of the growing middle class on European society.

 Encomienda system and the social hieracrchy of Latin America.

 Affect of revolutionary individuals on Latin America.

 

Identify multiple sources of the same information. 

Organize notes into a working resource guide.   Thematic and DBQ skills.  

Current Events articles.



Interpret primary source documents

 
 
Nationalism
 Content 
 Skills 
 Bismarck and the use of nationalism to unify the German people.

Italy unites under nationalism

Nationalism and the break up of the Austrian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

 

Identify multiple sources of the same information. 

Organize notes into a working resource guide.   Thematic and DBQ skills.  

Current Events articles.



Interpret primary source documents

Reading interpretation skills.

Map Charting

 
 
New Imperialism
 Content 
 Skills 

Imperialists effect on old empires.

Map interpretation of the division of Africa. British in India 

Spheres of influence in China 

Effects of Imperialism.



Meiji Restoration. 

WIMI (westernization, industrialization, modernization, imperialization)



 

Identify multiple sources of the same information. 

Organize notes into a working resource guide.   Thematic and DBQ skills.  

Current Events articles.



 
 
Russian Revolution
 Content 
 Skills 

 Pre-revolutionary government in Russia and rising discontent of Russian people. Primary source on the death of the Czar and his family.

Capitalism vs. Socialism    Imagine - John Lennon what are the aspects of communism?

Comparison of the major terms, policies, and events of Lenin and Stalin.

Totalitarian regime.



 
Project - Create one of the following displaying the major aspects of the Russian Revolution; board game, music, poster, interview, movie, etc.

Develop organizational skills for a thematic essay.

Write a thematic essay.



Continue work on multiple choice question strategies.

Reading interpretation skills.

Develop public speaking strategies and abilities.

 
 
World War I
 Content 
 Skills 
 Main Causes of WWI

Primary sources about the Treaty of Versailles

All Quiet on the Western Front 

Total war.



 
Identify the use of new technology in World War I.

Identify the causes of World War I

Continue mutliple choice strategies.

DBQ skills- analyzing documents, development of the intro, body, and conclusion of the essay.

 
 
In Between the Wars
 Content 
 Skills 

Worldwide social chaos and depression brought on by the end of WWI.

Rise of fascism in Italy. Video and primary source documents about Mussolini.

Rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany. Primary source documents and video.

Who would you elect? Case study on choices that the German people had leading up to the rise of Hitler.



 
Primary source interpretation.

 
 
World War II
 Content 
 Skills 

World War II and the Holocaust:

The Road to War ( 1933, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939); The Axis 1939-1941 ( New Technology, Blitzkrieg, Poland, Sitzkrieg, Invasion of Western Europe and Fall of France, Battle for Britain, Operation Barbarossa, Japanese Aggression in SE Asia, Pearl Harbor

 

Allied Quest for Victory, 1942-1945 (Turning Point 1942, The Shifting Tide 1943 and 1944, War at Sea and the Air, the End of WW II); The Holocaust and other War Crimes ( Crimes Against Humanity, Japanese War Crimes, Nazi Atrocities, The Holocaust)



 
Interpreting primary source documents

Develop multiple choice strategies

Creating a research paper equipped with citations and a works cited page.

DBQ essay organization and writing skills.

 
 
1945 to the present
 Content 
 Skills 
How did imperialism, nationalism, and the cold war affect Europe

 Cold War events and terms affecting Europe.

Affect of the collapse of communism on Eastern Europe

 Nationalism and the Balkan Peninsula

Describe how the Cold War affected SE Asia

Japan as an economic super power

Chinese society

 

Identify multiple sources of the same information. 

Organize notes into a working resource guide.   Thematic and DBQ skills.  

Current Events articles.



Interpret primary source documents

Analyze original documents

 
 
1945- present continued
 Content 
 Skills 
How did the Cold War affect Africa?

Apartheid and how Nelson Mandela was instrumental in bringing about its end

African countries are still struggling and dependent upon the economic north

 Cold War and it's affect on the Middle East and India

 UN created borders have caused ethnic conflicts in the Middle East and India

Natural resources in the Middle East have affected the world

 

Identify multiple sources of the same information. 

Organize notes into a working resource guide.   Thematic and DBQ skills.  

Current Events articles.



Interpret primary source documents

 
 
1945- present continued
 Content 
 Skills 
 Cold War and Latin America

Leaders of Latin American countries and the people's reaction to them

Traditional beliefs and their affect on modern day Latin American political, economic and social situations

Review for Regents

 

Identify multiple sources of the same information. 

Organize notes into a working resource guide.   Thematic and DBQ skills.  

Current Events articles.



Interpret primary source documents

 
 
 
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