WORLD HISTORY SYLLABUS

2005-2006

Sister Mary Elayne, SND

Unit 5 AGE OF REVOLUTION

20. Scientific Revolution

Events: scientific discoveries and writings; new political philosophies; Age of Enlightenment

Persons: Newton, Descartes, Boyle, Priestley, Lavoisier, John Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau

Countries: France, England, Germany, Italy, Poland

21. English and American Revolutions

Events: English Civil War, United States War of Independence

Persons: James I, II, Charles I, II, Oliver Cromwell, William and Mary, George I, II, III, Washington, Jefferson

Countries: England, Ireland, Scotland, 13 American Colonies

22. The French Revolution

Events: Fall of the Bastille, Constitution of 1791, death of the monarchy, Reign of Terror, Directory, Napoleonic Empire, Waterloo

Persons: Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Robespierre, Danton, Napoleon Bonapart

Countries: France, Austria

Unit 6 AGE OF INDUSTRY

23. Age of Industry

Events: agricultural improvements, Industrial Revolution

Persons: Watt, Bessemer, Fulton, Whitney, Taylor, Ford, Marconi, Bell, Edison, Wright

Countries: England, Germany, United States

24. Cultural Revolution

Events: formation of capitalism, formation of socialism, Age of Industry, scientific advances, Romanticism

Persons: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, impressionist painters

Countries: England, France

25. Democracy and Reform

Events: voting rights extended, Congress of Vienna, Crimean War, Franco-Prussian War, United States expansion and Civil War, Latin American wars of independence, Commune of Paris, Panama Canal, Dreyfus Affair

Persons: Queen Victoria, Metternich, Napoleon III, Simon Bolivar, Thomas Jefferson, Lincoln,

Countries: England, Ireland, Australia, Austria, France, United States, Haiti, Paraguay, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Brazil

26. Reaction and Nationalism

Events: nationalism and unification of Italy, nationalism and unification of Germany, repression in Czarist Russia; Seven Weeks’ War; Austria-Hungary dual monarchy

Persons: Mazzini, Garibaldi, Cavour, Bismarck, Kaiser William II, Czars Nicholas I, II, Alexander I, II, III

Countries: Italy, Sardinia, France, Prussia, Russia, Austria, Hungary

27. The Age of Imperialism

Events: colonization and partition of Africa, Suez Canal, Anglo-Boer War, East India Company, Opium War, Boxer Rebellion, Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, Spanish American War, Monroe Doctrine, Mexican Revolution

Persons: David Livingstone, Leopold II, Menelik II, Gandhi, Ci Xi, Sun Yat-sen, Commodore Perry, Pres. McKinley, T. Roosevelt, Wilson, Benito Juarez, Porfirio Diaz, Pancho Villa

Countries: Algeria, Rhodesia, Congo, Egypt, Libya, Nigeria, Gold Coast, Senegal, Sudan, Central Africa, Ethiopia, South Africa, India, China, Japan, Indonesia, Philippines, Siam

Unit 7 WORLD IN CONFLICT

28. World War I

Events: Triple Entente vs Triple Alliance, assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand, German U-boats sink American vessels, U.S. declares war, Versailles Peace Treaty, Russian Revolution

Persons: Pres. Wilson, Lenin, Trotsky, Pershing, Laurence of Arabia, Clemenceau,

Countries: Serbia, Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Empire, Germany, France, England, Russia, U.S., Italy

29. Between Two Fires

Events: Roaring Twenties, stock market crash, Great Depression, fascism, Maginot Line, communism in Russia

Persons: Pres. FDR, Mussolini, Hitler, Trotsky, Stalin

Countries: U.S., England, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, USSR

30. Nationalism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America

Events: new countries of Turkey and Iran formed, Balfour Declaration, independence movements in Africa, India, nationalists vs communists in China, militarism in Japan

Persons: Ataturk, Reza Khan Pahlavi, Hitler, Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao Zedong, Hirohito, Vargas, Somoza

Countries: Turkey, Iran, Palestine, Germany, Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Biafra, India, Japan, China, Venezuela, Argentina, Brazil, Nicaragua

31. World War II

Events: ineffectiveness of League of Nations, Japan invades Manchuria, Italy invades Ethiopia, Spanish Civil War, Hitler’s aggressions, appeasement efforts, air, sea, land, desert battles, Battle of Britain, Atlantic Charter, the Holocaust, Pearl Harbor, D-Day, Leningrad, Battle of the Bulge, Yalta, Potsdam

Persons: Mussolini, Selassie, Franco, Hitler, Chamberlain, Churchill, FDR, de Gaulle, Rommel, Montgomery, MacArthur, Nimitz, Patton, Stalin

Countries: Japan, China, Italy, Ethiopia, Spain, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Holland, France, England, Russia, U.S.

Unit 8 THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD

32. The Cold War

Events: Eastern bloc vs Western bloc; NATO vs Warsaw Pact; arms race; uprisings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia; Truman Doctrine; Marshall Plan; U.S. civil rights movement

Persons: Stalin, Khrushev, Brezhnev, Tito, Solzhenitsen, Willy Brandt, McCarthy, Pres. Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Martin Luther King, Jr., Pierre Trudeau

Countries: Germany, USSR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, U.S., Canada

33. Asia and the Pacific

Events: formation of Pakistan and Bangladesh, 2 Chinas, Korean and Vietnam Wars, economic prosperity in Asia’s Pacific Rim

Persons: MacArthur, Mao, Jiang Jing, Nixon, Kissinger, Kim Il Sung, Kim Il Jong, Kim Young Sam, Ho Chi Minh, Lon Nol, Pol Pot, Sukarno, Suharto, Nehru, Indira Gandhi,, Marcos, Aquino, Ramos

Countries: Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, India, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, Sri Lanka

34. Africa

Events: new African nations formed, ethnic rivalries in Africa, genocide, economic struggles in Africa, starvation in Somalia, efforts for African unity

Persons: Mandela, de Klerk, Mobutu, Kenyatta, Ian Smith, Senghor

Countries: South Africa, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Gold Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Zaire, Kenya, Angola, Mozambique, Nyasaland, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Rwanda, Burundi

35. The Middle East

Events: oil wealth in Middle East, Pan-Arabism, PLO formed, Arab-Israeli conflict, SALT

Persons: David Ben-Gurion, King Farouk, Nasser, King Faisal II, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Arafat, Sadat, Kissinger, Begin, Mubarak, Ayatollah Khomeini, Rafsanjani, Saddam Hussein, Golda Meir

Countries: Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Palestine, Great Britain, France, Iran

36. Latin America

Events: Cuban Revolution, Bay of Pigs, economic struggles, NAFTA, Zapatista Movement, Sandanista Revolution in Nicaragua, death squads in El Salvador, U.S. intervention in Panama, Falkland Island dispute

Persons: Castro, Papa Doc and Baby Doc Duvalier, Aristide, Somoza, Chamorro, Rigoberta Menchu, Archbishop Romero, Duarte, Noriega, Peron, Margaret Thatcher, Carlos Menem, Fujimori

Countries: Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Argentina, Guatemala, Haiti, El Salvador, Argentina, Great Britain, Chile, Colombia, Peru

37. The World in Transition

Events: glasnost, perestroika, Soviet breakup, Poland’s Solidarity Movement, collapse of communism, revolt in Rumania, War in the Balkans, IRA attacks, reunification of Germany, European Union

Persons: Gorbachev, John Paul II, Lech Walesa, Ceausescu, Reagan, Havel, Thatcher, Major, Mitterand, Milosevic

Countries: USSR, Germany, Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia