Monday through Friday, May 12-16, 2014.
Long periods: Work on oral history interviews and capstone projects.
Oral history interview transcripts are DUE on Friday, 5/16.
- Turn in paper copy; email copy to Logan Luiz, Jimmy Chen, and Annie Wu.
Final revisions and archival copies of independent research papers are DUE on Monday, 5/19.
- Turn in paper copy; email copy to Spinney.
Capstone presentations will run Week 18, Monday through Thursday, 5/19-22.
- updates in content and layout DUE by Friday, 5/16.
Final Self- Reflections are not mandatory, but encouraged; DUE by Tuesday, 5/27.
Day 1, Monday, 5/12: The end of European Colonialism.
In-class: Wrap up discussions on decolonization; finish reading and discussing primary source sets.
Key terms: The Non-Alignment movement, the Balfour Declaration (1917), Zionism, The League of Arab States, 1948 UN partition plan, Gamel Abdul Nasser, and the Suez Canal Crisis (1956).
Homework: Review textbook sections on Israel/Palestine in Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 753-755.
Day 2: Out of Palestine: The Creation of Modern Israel.
In-class: Discuss the readings on Israel/Palestine.
Homework: Read the handouts, and review the textbook materials on the emergence of modern China.
Day 3: The Emergence of Modern China.
In-class: Discuss the handouts on the emergence of modern China.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner
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.
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