History: Fact or Fiction?

Recognizes important political and military factors of Ancient Greece, Rome, India and China.

Compares the social structures of Ancient Greece, Rome, India and China.

• Analyzes the cultural influence of European exploration and colonization
•  Analyzes the political impact of European exploration and colonization.
• Analyzes European exploration and colonization (i.e., Portugal, Spain, England, France, and Holland).
• Evaluates the rise of absolutism and constitutionalism and their impact on European nations.
The Age of Revolutions: 1650-1815
·        Assesses the origins of the Industrial Revolution and its impact.
o       Preconditions
o       Technological advances
o       Labor conditions
Era of Global War 1914-1945

• Examines the implications of the World War I treaties (e.g., League of Nations, disarmament, reparations)
• Evaluates political responses to the Great Depression (i.e., Nazism, New Deal, British entrenchment)
• Explains the rise of militarists and totalitarian states (i.e., Italy, Germany, Soviet Union and Japan).
• Analyzes the causes, course and consequences of World War I
• Assesses the Challenges of Post World War I period in Europe, Asia and Africa.
• Explains the rise of communism in Russia (i.e., Lenin and the Bolsheviks).

The World from 1945 to the present


• Examines the role of the United Nations in establishing a forum for maintaining a balance of power
• Analyzes the persistence of nationalism, militarism, and civil war throughout the world.
  

 

• Internal conflicts, Civil War and genocide (e.g., South Africa, Northern Ireland, Chile, Somalia and Rwanda, Cambodia, the Balkans).
• Internal conflicts
  
• New forms of terrorism
  
• Modern weapons race

 

• Evaluates world prospects for political democracy and social justice (e.g., expansion of women’s and minorities’ rights, human rights violations around the world).