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.

Friday, February 5, 2016

Week 6 - Mass Politics and Democracy

Monday through Thursday, February 8-11.
Independent research paper rough drafts DUE by the end of the day, Thursday, 2/11.
Friday, 2/12: Faculty Professional Development Day (no school).
Monday, 2/15: Presidents' Day (no school).

Day 1, Monday, February 8, 2015: The Welfare State.
In-class: Continue discussion of the capstone project guidelines and legacy projects.
In-class: Chronicle current events.

Homework for Day 2/3 (Short periods): Please read “Mass Politics and Imperial Domination: Democracy and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914,” in The West in the World, eds. Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 597-609 (up until the section on "The New Imperialism"), take notes on the following key terms and persons, and develop an answer to the related questions.
Key Terms: Reform Bills of 1867 and 1884, France’s Third Republic, The Paris Commune, strikes, the First International, Kulturkampf, the Fabians, Britain’s Labour Party, German Social Democrats, Anarchism, Anti-Semitism, Ultranationalism, the Dreyfus Affair, Zionism, and suffrage movements.
Key Persons: Bakunin and Theodor Herzl  
Key question#1: In what ways were large numbers of people incorporated into politics during this period?
Key question#2: Why were some areas and groups still left out of the political arena in 1914?

Day 2/3 (Long periods): Independent Research.
In-class: Meet in library to research, develop topic proposal drafts, and discuss with instructor. 

Day 2/3 (Short periods): Mass Politics and Democracy.
In-class: Discuss the reading, key terms, persons and questions from homework.

Homework for WEEK 7,
Period 3, Tuesday, 2/16,
Period 7, Wednesday, 2/17,
and Periods 4&5, Thursday, 2/18: 
Please read “Mass Politics and Imperial Domination: Democracy and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914,” in The West in the World, eds. Sherman/Salisbury, pp. 609-623, take notes on the following key terms, and develop an answer to the related questions. 
Key Terms: the new imperialism, the scramble for Africa, the Boer War, the Opium Wars, the Taiping Rebellion, the Meiji Restoration and the Russo-Japanese War. 
Key question#1: What are the causes for the rise of imperialism during this period? 
Key question#2: What are the legacies of 19th-century European imperialism for both Western and non-Western peoples? 
Key question#3: How did peoples in Africa, the Middle East and Asia respond to the rise of a new wave of European imperialism in the late 19th century?  
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