Course Description

Welcome! This site is for students, parents, teachers and anyone else interested in the tenth-grade World History 2 Course at Santa Fe Prep.

The overall course covers the history of the world from roughly 1500 to the present. The first quarter opens with the time when Asia was the center of world affairs, then traces European encounters with Asia and the Americas, and the complex interactions and consequences of the so-called "Columbian Exchange" between Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa. The first quarter ends with a survey of the European Renaissance and Reformation, in both its local and global dimensions. The second quarter will focus on the rise of absolute monarchies and new ideas and practices, especially with the scientific revolution and Enlightenment. The second quarter ends with assessments of the legacies of the French Revolution, Napoleon and the emergence of the British Empire. The third quarter starts with the implications of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars in the wake of the Congress of Vienna, i.e., the discourse on rights, reaction, revolution and reform, the rise of new ideologies, in particular, Classical Liberalism, nationalism, and romanticism, and conservative reactions to the changes wrought by the American and French Revolutions. The course then examines the rise of industrialization and social change in 19th-century Europe, and the emergence of middle and working class cultures, followed by new iterations of liberalism and conservatism, the proliferation of more ideologies, e.g., socialism, communism, ultranationalism, social Darwinism, and antisemitism. Then the course examines the unification of the Italian and German nation states, and the creation of the modern welfare state. From there the course traces the rise of a new wave of Western imperialism, followed by the rest of the world's reactions to the rise of European empires and ideas, and in particular, the emergence of industrial Japan and their surprising victory over Russia. The third quarter ends with the outbreak of the First World War. The fourth and final quarter surveys the effects of the First World War, followed by the brief peak of classical liberal nation states and promises for peace, and the rapid rise of authoritarianism, in both communist and fascist variations, with a special focus on the rise of Nazism, the Nazi racial transformation of Germany and the Holocaust and Shoah of modern Europe. The fourth quarter concludes by looking at the causes and effects of the Second World War, the Cold War, the end of European empires in Asia and Africa, the emergence of the Modern Middle East and China, the end of the Cold War, history since 1989, all the way to the present, including current events.

Sunday, May 4, 2014

Spring Semester Final Exams and Capstone Project Expectations

1. Schedule:
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
1:00-3:00 PM in the gym
Extended Time Exams in the Network Classroom
 
2. Review.
A. Review 2013 Spring Semester blog posts for key themes, questions, terms and persons.
B. NOTE that this exam is comprehensive for the whole spring semester and will include coverage of materials related to the rise of human rights and new ideological struggles after the French Revolution, i.e., liberalism, nationalism, Marxism and the reconfiguration of conservatism. This also encompasses the origins and effects industrialization and the rise of the new imperialism in the late 19th century, as well as the more recent materials on the 20th century (see notes below).

3. Format.
A. Objective Sections
- Goal: demonstrate grasp of basic knowledge from this semester's study of modern history.
- Matching Key Terms and Persons
- True/False
- Short Answer

B. DBQ: Document-based Question.
- Goal: Demonstrate grasp of historiography, i.e., leading points of view in the available secondary source materials, to provide groundwork for your thesis, i.e., a clear response and argument to the question.
- Make effective use of available primary source documents and knowledge as supporting forms of evidence to show key points of thesis.

4. Possible DBQ Themes.
A. What were the effects of the First World War?
B. How did the Nazis seize power?
C. How did the Nazis attempt to racially transform German society and Europe?
D. Is the Holocaust explicable?
E. What were the effects of the Second World War?
F. What were the causes of the Cold War?
G. Why did decolonization occur?
H. What are the legacies of decolonization?
I. What are contemporary issues that the world faces, and how might the study of world history offer any guide to the future?

5. The Alternative: The Capstone Projects
- Goal: Demonstrate solid grasp in a particular area of the class in terms of the historiography, i.e., secondary sources for a particular subject, and/or develop electronic resource collections of primary and secondary sources, annotated bibliographies, additional online resources, new library acquisitions in coordination with the librarians for future research, and/or alternative exhibitions, e.g. in the visual arts, dance, etc. Please see the separate post on the capstone projects for more details.
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