HISTORY
152 CLASSROOM
UNIT
TOPICS - SPRING 2009
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January 12 - January 19
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UNIT ONE - REGIONAL POWERS IN THE 15th AND 16th CENTURIES
CHAPTER ONE - Opening Comments
CHAPTER TWO - Influential Regional Powers
CHAPTER THREE
- Early Modern
CHAPTER FOUR - Roots of the "Age of Expansion"
January 19 - January 26
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UNIT TWO - GLOBAL CONNECTIONS
CHAPTER ONE - Early Voyages
CHAPTER TWO - Consequences of European Expansion
CHAPTER THREE
- The
CHAPTER FOUR
- Ming Dynasty
CHAPTER
FIVE- Tokugawa
January 26 - February 2
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UNIT THREE - ROOTS OF THE AGE OF REVOLUTION IN
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
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
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UNIT SEVEN - NEW IMPERIALISM:
EFFECTS IN AFRICA AND
CHAPTER ONE
- Effects of Imperial Expansion -
Ottoman Empire and
CHAPTER TWO
- The Partitioning of
CHAPTER THREE - Colonial Expansion into
CHAPTER FOUR - The Meiji
Restoration
March 2 – March 9
GO TO: UNIT EIGHT
- THE UNITED STATES AND
CHAPTER ONE
- The
CHAPTER TWO
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CHAPTER THREE - Outbreak of the American Civil War
CHAPTER FOUR - Consequences of the War
CHAPTER FIVE
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March 9 – March 16
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UNIT NINE -
CHAPTER ONE
- Continued
Upheaval in
CHAPTER TWO
-
Nationalism: Redrawing Borders in
CHAPTER THREE - Nationalism in the Balkans
CHAPTER
March 18 – March 30
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TO: UNIT TEN - THE GREAT WAR: ITS NATURE AND EFFECTS ON
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
CHAPTER FIVE
-
Economic Crises
April 6 – April 13
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TO: UNIT TWELVE - THE RISE OF AUTHORITARIAN AND
CHAPTER ONE
-
Authoritarian and
CHAPTER TWO - Stalin
CHAPTER THREE - Fascism
CHAPTER FOUR - Hitler and the Nazi Party
CHAPTER FIVE
-
Nazi Power
April 13- April 20
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TO: UNIT THIRTEEN - WORLD WAR II: CAUSES, KEY EVENTS
AND CONSEQUENCES
CHAPTER ONE - Aggression and Appeasement
CHAPTER
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
April 27- May 1
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TO: UNIT FIFTEEN - DECOLONIZATION: THE CHALLENGES OF
CHAPTER ONE
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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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