HISTORY 152 CLASSROOM
UNIT TOPICS - SPRING 2009

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January 12 -  January 19

GO TO: UNIT ONE - REGIONAL POWERS IN THE 15th AND 16th CENTURIES

CHAPTER ONE -         Opening Comments

CHAPTER TWO -         Influential Regional Powers

CHAPTER THREE -      Early Modern Europe

CHAPTER FOUR -       Roots of the "Age of Expansion"


January 19 -  January 26

GO TO: UNIT TWO - GLOBAL CONNECTIONS

CHAPTER ONE -         Early Voyages

CHAPTER TWO -        Consequences of European Expansion

CHAPTER THREE -    The Ottoman Empire: Power and Complacency

CHAPTER FOUR -       Ming Dynasty China: A Traditional Society

CHAPTER FIVE-          Tokugawa Japan

 


January 26 - February 2 

GO TO: UNIT THREE -   ROOTS OF THE AGE OF REVOLUTION IN EUROPE

CHAPTER ONE -         Absolutist Government

CHAPTER TWO -        Constitutional Government

CHAPTER THREE -     The Scientific Revolution

CHAPTER FOUR -       The Enlightenment


February 2 – February 9

GO TO: UNIT FOUR-    THE AMERICAN AND FRENCH REVOLUTIONS

CHAPTER ONE -          The American Revolution

CHAPTER TWO -         Creation of a Republic

CHAPTER THREE -      The Start of the French Revolution

CHAPTER FOUR -        Liberal Achievements in Revolutionary France


February 9 – February 16


GO TO: UNIT FIVE  - KEY INFLUENCES IN THE 19TH CENTURY: THE  FRENCH AND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONS

CHAPTER ONE -         The Radical Phase of the French Revolution

CHAPTER TWO -         Napoleon Bonaparte

CHAPTER THREE -      Aftershocks of the French Revolution

CHAPTER FOUR -       The Industrial Revolution


February 16 – February 23

 

GO TO: UNIT SIX  - THE REVOLUTIONARY EFFECTS OF THE INDUSTRIAL AGE

CHAPTER ONE -         Effects of the Industrial Revolution

CHAPTER TWO -         City and Factory Life

CHAPTER THREE -    Responses to Social/Economic Conditions

CHAPTER FOUR -       New Imperialism


February 23 – March 2

 

GO TO: UNIT SEVEN   - NEW IMPERIALISM:  EFFECTS IN AFRICA AND ASIA

CHAPTER ONE  -        Effects of Imperial Expansion - Ottoman Empire and India

CHAPTER TWO -        The Partitioning of Africa

CHAPTER THREE -    Colonial Expansion into Asia

CHAPTER FOUR -      The Meiji Restoration

 


March 2 – March 9

GO TO: UNIT EIGHT -  THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA IN THE 19TH CENTURY

CHAPTER ONE  -           The United States: A Story of Growth

CHAPTER TWO -            U.S. Imperialism

CHAPTER THREE -       Outbreak of the American Civil War

CHAPTER FOUR -          Consequences of the War

CHAPTER FIVE -             Latin America in the 19th Century


March 9 – March 16

GO TO: UNIT NINE EUROPE IN THE 19TH CENTURY: THE ROAD TO THE "GREAT WAR"

CHAPTER ONE  -            Continued Upheaval in Europe

CHAPTER TWO -             Nationalism:  Redrawing Borders in Europe

CHAPTER THREE -         Nationalism in the Balkans

CHAPTER FOUR -           Road to War


March 18 – March 30

 

GO TO: UNIT TEN  - THE GREAT WAR:  ITS NATURE AND EFFECTS ON
                                        EUROPE AND THE GLOBE

CHAPTER ONE  -            Outbreak of War

CHAPTER TWO -             Trench Warfare

CHAPTER THREE -        Chronology of the War

CHAPTER FOUR -           Exhaustion and Collapse

CHAPTER FIVE -            The Characteristics of Modern War


March 30 – April 6

 

GO TO: UNIT ELEVEN  - THE AGE OF ANXIETY

CHAPTER ONE  -            The Age of Anxiety

CHAPTER TWO -             The Russian Revolution

CHAPTER THREE -        The Bolshevik Overthrow

CHAPTER FOUR -           The Paris Peace Conference

CHAPTER FIVE -              Economic Crises


April 6 – April 13

 

GO TO: UNIT TWELVE -   THE RISE OF AUTHORITARIAN AND
                                                TOTALITARIAN STATES

CHAPTER ONE  -             Authoritarian and Totalitarian States

CHAPTER TWO -              Stalin

CHAPTER THREE -          Fascism

CHAPTER FOUR -            Hitler and the Nazi Party

CHAPTER FIVE -              Nazi Power


April 13- April 20

 

GO TO: UNIT THIRTEEN -  WORLD WAR II:  CAUSES, KEY EVENTS
                                                AND CONSEQUENCES

CHAPTER ONE  -               Aggression and Appeasement

CHAPTER TWO -               Road to War

CHAPTER THREE -           Axis Expansion

CHAPTER FOUR -             The Tide Turns

CHAPTER FIVE -                Civilian Suffering


April 20- April 27

 

GO TO: UNIT FOURTEEN   -  THE COLD WAR

CHAPTER ONE  -               A Shift in Global Power

CHAPTER TWO -               The Collapse of Negotiations

CHAPTER THREE -           Consequences of Cold War Tensions

CHAPTER FOUR -             Cold War Politics in Asia


April 27- May 1

 

GO TO: UNIT FIFTEEN  -  DECOLONIZATION:  THE CHALLENGES OF  INDEPENDENCE

CHAPTER ONE  -               Independence

CHAPTER TWO -               Economic Challenges

CHAPTER THREE -           The Difficult Path to Political Stability

CHAPTER FOUR -             Nationalist Divisions

 


May 1 – May 7


GO TO: UNIT SIXTEEN  -  THE POST COLD WAR WORLD: CURRENT POSSIBILITIES AND CRISES

CHAPTER ONE  -               End of the Cold War

CHAPTER TWO -               Post-Cold War Issues

CHAPTER THREE -          North/South Issues

CHAPTER FOUR -             Concluding Remarks





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