Problems of the Modern World
Famine in
Political Instability
Poverty
Unsustainable National Debt
War
Terrorism
Global Consequences of the Destruction of Natural Resources
Economic and cultural dislocations caused by technological change
The proliferation of nuclear weapons
The struggle to defend human rights and democratic freedoms against governments that respect neither
Connecting with Past Learning: The Rise of Democratic Ideas
The moral and ethical principles of Judaism and Christianity
Influence on Western democratic thought
Belief in dignity and equality of all
The search for social systems that ensure the freedom to make individual moral choice
The duty of each to work for morally just communities
The significance of the Greek philosophers’ belief in reason and natural law in relation to democratic ideas
Plato’s Republic
Aristotle’s Politics
Political life in the city-state
of
Significant
democratic developments in
Magna Carta
Common law
Parliament
English Bill of Rights of 1689
Significant ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers
Locke
Rousseau
Effect that Enlightened Ideals had on Democratic Revolutions
The Philosophy on Which the Democratic Revolutions Were Based
Natural Rights
Natural Law
Language of the American
Declaration of
Equality
Justice under the Law
Freedom
Industrial Revolution
Beginnings in
eighteenth-century
The major changes that the
mechanization of production wrought in
Economy
Politics
Society
Culture
Physical environment
Responses to the Industrial Revolution
Development of labor unions
Emergence of socialist thought
The Romantic impulse in art and literature
William Blake
William Wordsworth
John Ruskin
William Morris
Charles Dickens
Hard Times
Social reforms of the era
Abolition of slavery
Reform of the “poor laws.”
The Industrial Revolution in other countries
Worldwide imperial expansion
Industrial nations’ demand for natural resources and markets
Nationalist aspirations of Industrial Nations
Colonial possessions
Case Study of Colonialism in
Review of Indian history preceding British rule
Factors that
opened
The principal beliefs of Hinduism
The caste system
Imagery of the Ramayana
Differing beliefs and values of
Hindu and Muslim cultures in
Historical
aftermath of colonialism in
The national movement
Religious divisions
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
Louis Mountbatten
Creation of the two states of
World War I
Backdrop for World War I
Growth of nationalism
Growth of imperialism
Growth of militarism
Political conditions that led to
the outbreak of the war in
Dissolving old empires
Irredentist movements
Spirit of self-determination
The meaning of total war
Targeting civilian populations
Wartime propaganda
False reports of German atrocities
Opposition to the war in the
Disillusion that followed the war
Sense of a world lost
Despair over the destruction of a generation of young men
Loss of idealism when the world turned out not to be “safe for democracy” after all
Case Study:
Planned mass deportation and systematic annihilation of the Armenian population in 1915
Reactions of other governments
The
World opinion
Effects of the genocide on the remaining Armenian people
Ways in which it became a prototype of subsequent genocides
Significant Consequences of the First World War
Importance of Woodrow Wilson’s
abortive campaign for the
The rise of
isolationism in the
The punitive terms of the peace
imposed on
The Russian Revolution
National revolutions that resulted in the establishment of independent democratic republics
The Balfour Declaration
The role of women in the war efforts
The effect women’s involvement had on social attitudes
The cultural changes after the war
Ernest Hemingway
Gertrude Stein
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The impact of Freudian psychology
Changes wrought by new technology
Automobile
Radio
Telephone
Totalitarianism in the Modern World
Nazi
Rise of Hitler
Collapse of
the
Hitler’s successful appeal to racism and what the historian Fritz Stern called “the politics of cultural despair.”
Jewish culture
of central
Artists: Marc Chagall, Gustav Mahler,
Scientists such as Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud
Scholars such as Edmund Husserl and Rudolph Lipschitz.
Study of the Holocaust
The Nazi party’s racist ideology
The suppression of rights and freedoms
Krystallnacht
Nazi persecution of Gypsies, homosexuals, and others who failed to meet the Aryan ideal
The Final Solution
Death camps
The Nazis’ utilization of bureaucratic social organization and modern technology to gather, classify, and eradicate their victims
Failure of Western governments to offer refuge to those fleeing Nazism.
Revolts and moral courage
Oscar Schindler
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Raoul Wallenberg
Stalinist
Historical context of the czarist regimes
Secret police
Censorship
Imprisonment of dissidents
Abortive efforts at reform and revolution
Massive underdevelopment of the nation
The Russian Revolution
The Bolshevik overthrow of the Kerensky government
Difference between the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks
Roles of Lenin, Trotsky, and Stalin in the Revolution
Communist ideology.
The forced collectivization of agriculture
The murder of millions of kulaks
The
government-created famine in
Starvation of millions of people
Political purges of party leaders, artists, engineers, and intellectuals
Show trials of the 1930s.
Socialist realist art and reading
Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We - the first antiutopian novel
Arthur Koestler’s classic Darkness at Noon
The nature of totalitarian rule
Importance of Liberties and Rights
Free press
Right to criticize the government without fear of reprisal
An independent judiciary
Opposition political parties
Free trade unions
World War II: Its Causes and Consequences
Major Nations of the Allied and the Axis Powers.
The War in
Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
Partitioning
Bringing
German offensive
Major turning points of the war
Effects of the
The war in the Pacific
The attack on
The Struggle for the Pacific
The Consequences of World War II
Marshall Plan
The Truman Doctrine
American assistance to
Case Study of
Three million Polish Jews slaughtered
Approximately one-half million other Poles were systematically executed
Church leaders who spoke out against Nazism
Educators.
Abandonment of the Polish government-in-exile
Acquiescence to Stalin’s demands
for
Mass arrests of noncommunist leaders
Expropriation of private land
Nationalization of industry followed.
Protests
Strikes
Protests
Organization of industrial workers in the Solidarity movement
Other important postwar Events
Establishment of the state of
The population movement within and
immigration to
The changing roles of women in industrialized countries
Multi National Governing Organizations
The creation of the United Nations
The
SEATO
NATO
The Cold War
The Korean War
The Hungarian Revolution
The Vietnam War and its aftermath
The genocide committed in
Nationalism in the Contemporary World
Analyses of four pairs of nations connected either by political ideology or by regional location
The former
Soviet Union and
Both were created in the twentieth century as a result of communist revolutions
Both were underdeveloped countries whose leaders imposed collectivist means to modernize the economy and the society
Conditions that preceded the revolutions
Their revolutionary leaders
Lenin
Stalin
Mao
The nature of communist ideology
The human consequences of both revolution
The millions of “class enemies” and political dissidents who were murdered during and after the revolutions
The stifling of religious freedom
The conformity imposed on artists and intellectuals
The economic disruptions caused by forced collectivization
The establishment of party elites exerting absolute control over the government and media.
Wars between
Tensions between Arab nations and among different Islamic groups
Differences between Sunni and Shiite Muslims
Strategic importance as a supplier of oil to the industrialized world
The unresolved problems of the displaced Palestinian refugees
The recurrent use of terrorism among adversaries
The disruptions associated with the interaction of traditional cultures and the forces of modernization
Economic significance of such key states as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Kuwait, Iraq, and Iran.
Review of the
history of
The importance of the land in Jewish religious history
The history of Zionism
Reference to the
Holocaust as a factor in the creation of
Government of
Democratic parliamentary government
Free press
Independent judiciary.
Challenges for
Accommodating the demands of orthodox religious groups
The internal
debate over the
The issue of Palestinian statehood
The conflict between Jews and
Arabs within
An economy overburdened by military expenditures
Pan Arab unity
Problems of illiteracy, shortage of health services, ethnic rivalries, and religious tensions
Form of
government in
The status of minorities
Government control of the media
Peace process
in the
Role of the
Treaty of Peace between
The Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement
Historic kingdoms of
Between the seventeenth and
nineteenth centuries more than ten million Africans were enslaved and transported
to the
About 400,000 of these were
brought to
The acute labor shortage in the
New World created a vast new market for slave labor and systematically depleted
The social, cultural, and economic
disruption of
The late nineteenth century European colonization and economic exploitation of the region
Case study of
A former British colony
First to gain its independence
Nation, rich in gold resources and once the world’s largest cocoa producer
Economic collapse occurring during its 26 years under socialism
Case study of
Large settlement of Europeans
Government of
System of apartheid denied legal equality and political participation to the black majority up to 1994.
The political
tensions in
Post-apartheid
Nelson Mandela
His inaugural address
Geographic overview of Central and
Political divisions
Natural features
Resources
Population patterns
Case study of present-day
Social revolution of 1910-20
The political and social system that emerged from it
Sense of national identity
Political stability
Economic development until the 1970s
Dominant party system
Social disparities
Economic difficulties in the last part of the twentieth century
Ties to other Latin American nations
Relationship
with the
North American Free Trade Agreement.
A case study
on
Cultural diversity of the nation
Immigrant population from many nations
Highly industrialized southern cities
Agricultural and mineral wealth
Sporadically settled interior regions
Growth of
Compare to
Problems that are created as the rural poor continue to move to these cities
Resettlement programs of the vast
interior of
Amazon
Destruction of the tropical rain forests
Settlers in ranching and agriculture
Effects on the Earth’s biosphere